It's Labour Day here, notionally the beginning of summer and it was warm
and brilliantly sunny. I had a fine afternoon with my daughters (aged
7&9 going on 17 & 19) who managed to sand and oilstain all our outdoor
furniture. I just had to supervise and keep the stain spills under
control. Next year (I told them) they can do it without supervision.
Meanwhile, whatever hardwood the 15 year old Adirondack chair is made
of... I needed to put a brace near the back where the original screw had
torn out. I used a new screw bit (tapered with the coutersink built in).
Smoked and blue before I had drilled half the first hole. Oh, and my
local Borg seems to no longer stock steel woodscrews so I broke a brass
one. It seems that steel longthreads work acceptably as taps for brass
screws, though I can't see why they should...
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Don Mackie notes:
>Smoked and blue before I had drilled half the first hole. Oh, and my
>local Borg seems to no longer stock steel woodscrews so I broke a brass
>one. It seems that steel longthreads work acceptably as taps for brass
>screws, though I can't see why they should...
Because they are much, much harder than the brass.
Charlie Self
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be
common." Satchel Paige
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Doug Miller wrote:
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> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Leicaddict) wrote:
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> PLONK
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Don Mackie <[email protected]> wrote
> It's Labour Day here, notionally the beginning of summer and it was warm
> and brilliantly sunny.
Learn how to spell. It's "Labor Day". And it already passed, here. And
you copied it from us. It was an American Holiday first. New Zealand
is a joke of a country.
> I had a fine afternoon with my daughters (aged
> 7&9 going on 17 & 19)
Keep your hands off them.
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Leicaddict) wrote:
[snipped]
PLONK
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Charlie Self) wrote:
>It seems that steel longthreads work acceptably as taps for brass
> >screws, though I can't see why they should...
>
> Because they are much, much harder than the brass.
Yup - I know. The actual threads are quite different though, different
taper on the screw and different thread pitch. In the past I have used a
steel woodscrew of the same size to tap the hole before inserting the
brass one. Whatever the steel longthread did to the hole worked to open
it up for the brass screw.
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"Any PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit,"
Reverend Jim Peasboro
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:06:15 GMT, [email protected] (Doug Miller)
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Leicaddict) wrote:
>[snipped]
>
>PLONK
Can't you do ANYTHING without tellin' the whole world?! lol
Have a nice week...
Trent
Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!