On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:23:57 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:15:33 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
...
We see good and bad examples of square drive bits and screws. I have a box
of #2 square stainless screws that strip more easily than Phillips.

Have you tried another brand of driver bit? Quality varies all over
the map with those things. DAMHIKT. What I hate is when the bit
breaks in the screw. It can't be drilled out, but sometimes a prick
punch can loosen it.

These are definitely extra-soft screws, stainless steel deck screws from
some overstock/closeout place. So I predrill and set the clutch light. All
the other stainless screws from there have been fine; Robertson just isn't
very popular around here even though the older carpenters are Canadien.

That's too bad on both counts.


Snappy now sells quick change hex-shank tapered drill bits like the kitchen
cabinet installers use.
http://www.woodcraft.com/Images/products/148014.jpg

Huh? Which cabinet installers use tapered woodscrews?
I have an unused set of HF tapered billdrit/countersinks, but they're
round ended.

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