There
has been a long-term disagreement over "square drive." It seems that Robertson,
a Canadian, invented the square drive. Okay so it is the Robertson square drive
which has become so popular here.
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I set Andrea to the task of making sense out of all the boxes. I had two goals for her first) I wanted them organized in a way that I could find the exact screw quickly and second) I wanted to have the Lee Valley order number with the box so that when the time came to re-order, I didn't have to find the catalog page. |
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That is quite an assortment of flat head, pan head, all sizes, different thread types, etc. And some of the screws are on back order. |
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I had to really dig through the early pages of this website to
find any glimpse of the large parts drawer chests I made for the shop in 1993 when I first
set up a "professional" shop and Maureen is always a pleasant site
anyway.
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The large
parts chest is great when I am in the shop. And that pretty much is where I am, but there
is a good percentage of contractors/finish carpenters. installers, etc. who take their
shop with them to the site. Forgetting a certain type of screw, nut, bolt, or
connector, can really screw things up and throw a monkey wrench into schedules and
costs.
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So that was Andrea's next task fill the boxes with screws and make some type of order out of them. You can see that she is also inserting the box end flaps into each storage box. |
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She
is done but only after leaving a number of boxes out of the assortment.
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Here it
is. I will call it "Screw One." I think it will be as handy as some of the other
screw collections in the shop, like the Kreg assortment of pocket hole screws. And it
definitely will cut down on spurious trips to the hardware store. That saves time and
money.
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So I ordered another one. This may all seem like a considerable expense, except for one thing: what is the cost for not having the right screw, nut or bolt in terms of a special trip to the hardware store, gas for that trip, time away from the jobsite and, trying to make do with the wrong part. |
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