Which screw head do you prefer?

[caltexflanc]

Originally Posted by john61ct

Nearly 50¢ each, in a bulk variety pack!

Surely if you know what sizes you want there are cheaper suppliers of 100 at a time?

Note the use of the word "splurge". Guys I know who bought that set told me it was worth it to them to avoid the time and effort to get onesies and twosies. If our time is worth something, I see what they mean. Plus it covered every screw type on their boat.

[john61ct]

Yes I understand, and fair enough.

But if anyone know of quality reasonably-priced bulk suppliers of proper Robertson's screws and bits please post links.

[Bay Pelican]

I am sold. OK, include among the list of things the Canadians have that is better than the US: Robertson screws, metric system, and $1, and $2 coins.

[FF]

"and $1, and $2 coins." are great!!!!!

A walk down a popular beach in Canada with a metal detector can be very rewarding.

[angus99]

Originally Posted by Bay Pelican

I am sold. OK, include among the list of things the Canadians have that is better than the US: Robertson screws, metric system, and $1, and $2 coins.

Legal weed next year?

[DHeckrotte]

Originally Posted by Bay Pelican

I am sold. OK, include among the list of things the Canadians have that is better than the US: Robertson screws, metric system, and $1, and $2 coins.

Lots more can be attributed to Canadians: From Wikipedia, the 50 top inventions, in voted order, are:

1. Insulin
2. Light bulb
3. Five-pin bowling
4. Wonderbra
5. Artificial pacemaker
6. Robertson screw
7. Zipper
8. Electric Wheelchair
9. Poutine
10. Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment
11. Java programming language
12. Bloody Caesar
13. Canadarm
14. Standard time
15. Electron microscope
16. Snowmobiling
17. BlackBerry

1. Radio Voice Transmission
2. Birch-Bark Canoe
3. Basketball
4. Retractable Beer Carton Handle
5. UV Degradable Plastics
6. Instant Replay
7. Goalie mask
8. Marquis Wheat
9. Pablum
10. Lacrosse
11. Electric Oven
12. Steam Fog Horn
13. Walkie-Talkie
14. Alkaline battery
15. Paint roller
16. Electronic Music Synthesizer
17. Weevac 6
18. Green Garbage Bag

1. Snowblower
2. Self-Propelled Combine Harvester
3. Instant mashed potatoes
4. Explosives Vapour Detector
5. Marine Screw Propeller
6. Plexiglas
7. Key Frame Animation
8. CPR Mannequin (Actar 911)
9. G-Suit
10. Ardox Spiral Nail
11. Automatic Lubricating Cup
12. Crash-Position Indicator
13. Caulking gun
14. Separable Baggage Check
15. Hawaiian Pizza
16. Superman
17. Mushroom and Pineapple Pizza

Breakthrough Physics by Ernest Rutherford at McGill. Breakthrough medical education by McGill prof., William Ostler who went on to found, with three others, Johns Hopkins Univ in Baltimore. Recall that Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian from Nova Scotia; many of his inventions were made there. (The more adventurous of us could go by trawler and visit his museum and home in Baddeck on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.)

You could well add: civility, universal health care, and a well-earned almost universal respect by the other peoples of the world.

[angus99]

Originally Posted by DHeckrotte

Lots more can be attributed to Canadians: From Wikipedia, the 50 top inventions, in voted order, are:

1. Insulin
2. Light bulb
3. Five-pin bowling
4. Wonderbra
5. Artificial pacemaker
6. Robertson screw
7. Zipper
8. Electric Wheelchair
9. Poutine
10. Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment
11. Java programming language
12. Bloody Caesar
13. Canadarm
14. Standard time
15. Electron microscope
16. Snowmobiling
17. BlackBerry

1. Radio Voice Transmission
2. Birch-Bark Canoe
3. Basketball
4. Retractable Beer Carton Handle
5. UV Degradable Plastics
6. Instant Replay
7. Goalie mask
8. Marquis Wheat
9. Pablum
10. Lacrosse
11. Electric Oven
12. Steam Fog Horn
13. Walkie-Talkie
14. Alkaline battery
15. Paint roller
16. Electronic Music Synthesizer
17. Weevac 6
18. Green Garbage Bag

1. Snowblower
2. Self-Propelled Combine Harvester
3. Instant mashed potatoes
4. Explosives Vapour Detector
5. Marine Screw Propeller
6. Plexiglas
7. Key Frame Animation
8. CPR Mannequin (Actar 911)
9. G-Suit
10. Ardox Spiral Nail
11. Automatic Lubricating Cup
12. Crash-Position Indicator
13. Caulking gun
14. Separable Baggage Check
15. Hawaiian Pizza
16. Superman
17. Mushroom and Pineapple Pizza

Breakthrough Physics by Ernest Rutherford at McGill. Breakthrough medical education by McGill prof., William Ostler who went on to found, with three others, Johns Hopkins Univ in Baltimore. Recall that Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian from Nova Scotia; many of his inventions were made there. (The more adventurous of us could go by trawler and visit his museum and home in Baddeck on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.)

You could well add: civility, universal health care, and a well-earned almost universal respect by the other peoples of the world.

On behalf of my fellow Canucks, thanks for that.

I’ve sailed by Alexander Graham Bell’s home on the Bras d’Or Lakes. It’s a magnificent setting.

Although the first telephone was constructed and used in Boston, Bell maintained throughout his life that he invented the phone in my home town, Brantford, Ontario. The Bell homestead is a museum there.

"Brantford is justified in calling herself "The Telephone City," because the Telephone originated there."
A. G. Bell to Mr. T. H. Preston of Brantford, March 1916

[Cigatoo]

Canadians invented Superman.

Say it ain’t so!

[leeman]

You skated around the issue, but where's hockey on that list?

[Al]

I just wish there were a single universal design and be done with it!!! The most frustrating issues is coming across one of the new designs and away from any source of tool access.
It has happened too many times, then when you secure the tool, added to the inventory, either such a small bit head, or one you keep shoving aside in the on going search for the correct one for the current job.
Work on this trawler members, you have the power.

Al-Ketchikan

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. Al. "... a single universal design and be done with it!!!" You mean like the metric system?

[caltexflanc]

Originally Posted by john61ct

Yes I understand, and fair enough.

But if anyone know of quality reasonably-priced bulk suppliers of proper Robertson's screws and bits please post links.

McMaster Carr, Jamestown Distributors and the evil Amazon empire all have them in various configurations. Some have silicon bronze as well as 316 stainless.

[Ex Sailor]

Originally Posted by RT Firefly

Greetings,
Mr. Al. "... a single universal design and be done with it!!!" You mean like the metric system?

LOL or a universal / standard cordless tool battery / charger ...fb

[dhmeissner]

Well said Dave.

Nobody has mentioned Frearson, which look like Philips but differ and require a unique driver.

https://www.jamestowndistributors.co...lue0%7ENewUser

<snip>
Silicon Bronze is the traditional choice for marine construction. It is corrosion resistant, helps prevent rot around the screw holes when used under water, and is relatively strong. Although stronger than Solid Brass, Silicon Bronze screws are not as strong as Stainless Steel. They require a carefully sized pilot hole to avoid breakage. We recommend drilling twice (once for the root and once for the shank) as well as using fastener lubricant to avoid breakage.
<\snip>

[Al]

Yep, two of the brighter folk on the forum coming up with challenges for the concept of a universal universe. Good show lads,

Greetings,
Mr. Al. "... a single universal design and be done with it!!!" You mean like the metric system?
______________




LOL or a universal / standard cordless tool battery / charger ...fb
al-

[AusCan]

Originally Posted by dhmeissner

We recommend drilling twice (once for the root and once for the shank) as well as using fastener lubricant to avoid breakage.
<\snip>

Greats tips, Dave.

I keep a little bar of soap in with my case of assorted marine screws.
Just drag the threads of the screw across the bar of soap prior to use, and it makes the screw goes in so much easier.

[Moby Nick]

I quit using single-tip screw drivers years ago, except for prying tops off paint cans. Magnetic, renewable insert tip screw drivers are the only way to go, each having some sort of magazine for storing various sizes and styles of tips. I must have at least 10, a couple in the garage, a couple on the boat, a couple in the truck, one at my part-time job, one in the kitchen, several in the basement workshop. Make that a dozen instead of 10. If I come across a Torx screw head, I'm prepared for it. Robertson is no prob.

[dhays]

Originally Posted by AusCan

Greats tips, Dave.

I keep a little bar of soap in with my case of assorted marine screws.
Just drag the threads of the screw across the bar of soap prior to use, and it makes the screw goes in so much easier.

As a kid, I learned all kinds of tricks from my Dad. Bar of soap was one (I still have a small sample size bar of Dove soap in my tool box) but if you don't have a bar of soap handy, or lubricant, you can just run the screw through your hair a few times. Unless you have washed your hair that morning, there is enough oil in the hair to lubricate the screw.

[Art]

Originally Posted by dhays

As a kid, I learned all kinds of tricks from my Dad. Bar of soap was one (I still have a small sample size bar of Dove soap in my tool box) but if you don't have a bar of soap handy, or lubricant, you can just run the screw through your hair a few times. Unless you have washed your hair that morning, there is enough oil in the hair to lubricate the screw.

Oh O... guess I screwed up that lube type!!!

[aboatman]

Originally Posted by Al

Mr. Al. "... a single universal design and be done with it!!!" You mean like the metric system?

Well, the metric system just means that we have to own two separate sets of tools.