We have not had a Shop Tip in a while, my friends, so here in this late hour is a little tidbit:

Shop Tip #6: Brass screws are nearly always a bad idea.

They are soft, and if you are taking them in and out of something repeatedly, they nearly always strip and you end up with the tip of your drill delicately embedded in the meat of your hand. Or your thigh. Or your ankle. You get the idea.

Standard brass screws are even worse than Phillips heads.

Not that we are speaking from recent bitter, bitter personal experience or anything. Heavens no.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 18th, 2007 at 10:49 pm and is filed under Neat Stuff. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.