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What kind of fixing is this?
Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by
contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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In message , The Medway
Handyman writes Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Self drilling screws ... -- geoff |
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geoff wrote:
In message , The Medway Handyman writes Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Self drilling screws ... ....into what oh learned buddy? :-) -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message om... geoff wrote: In message , The Medway Handyman writes Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Self drilling screws ... ...into what oh learned buddy? :-) -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk Into what ever you want screw:-) http://www.thesitebox.com/Category/5583/tek-screws.aspx With a good driver they are not bad. Adam |
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In message , The Medway
Handyman writes geoff wrote: In message , The Medway Handyman writes Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Self drilling screws ... ...into what oh learned buddy? :-) Into whatever 1st google hit ... http://www.shop4fasteners.co.uk/acat...Cladding_Screw s.asp -- geoff |
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On Aug 10, 11:19 am, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote: Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2.../boltything001... http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2.../boltything002... Sorry about crap photo's. Doesn't your Nokia have a macro button?  |
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On Aug 10, 12:19*am, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote: Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2.../boltything001... http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2.../boltything002... Sorry about crap photo's. -- Dave - The Medway Handymanwww.medwayhandyman.co.uk Its a Tack self drilling screw. Some have a metal washer and others have a rubber type. Used for fixing to metal the latter for fixing cladding on roof sheeting. There is a special drill with a clutch for the use of theses screws. |
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On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:19:56 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote: Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Why didn't you take better ones then? |
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Laurence Payne wrote:
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:19:56 GMT, "The Medway Handyman" wrote: Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Why didn't you take better ones then? Because all I had available was a shoebox with a pinhole in one end. -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message om... Found a box of these in the store at the Uni I work at, left behind by contractors after completion of some new buildings. Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk Self drilling screws commonly used for ducting and roofing. The fellow who put up my latest lean too to the barn was cheerfully popping them through big six cement roofing sheets and through 1/4' steel 3x3 angles used as purlins - highly effective and quick. nb a tip I picked up from him - if one blunts, use a fresh one to create and tap the hole, unscrew it then pop the blunt one in it's place. Also, they are so hardened that if you tap the underneith protruding bit you can snap them off ( as I did when mounting fluorescents on the same purlins) AWEM |
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On 10 Aug, 00:48, "ARWadsworth"
wrote: http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2.../boltything002... Self drilling screws ... Into what ever you want screw:-) Anything? These look like they have extra-long reamer sections, compared to the threaded length, so AFAIR these particular ones are for putting steel corrugated sheets onto thin folded steel purlins. They'll probably work into wood, but there's not much length of thread to hold. |
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:48:24 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote: Laurence Payne wrote: On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:19:56 GMT, "The Medway Handyman" wrote: Never seen the like before, any ideas what they are for? http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything001.jpg http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...tything002.jpg Sorry about crap photo's. Why didn't you take better ones then? Because all I had available was a shoebox with a pinhole in one end. Did you mean pinhole or arsehole? Just jesting. |
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