Thou shall NOT build a boat with flathead screws!

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:52 am

GRRRRrrrRrFtttTrrrrrrrrrrrr

1967 seavoyager · Post by **1967 seavoyager** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:30 am

Yeah Really ! I have a few thousand more than you.

Big D · Post by **Big D** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:41 am

1967 seavoyager wrote:Yeah Really ! I have a few thousand more than you.

+1 to that.

Jeff, I'll let you know if I ever have to refasten my hull, then you can go and buy shares too

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 12:47 pm

Lol this is unreal!!! And they drove the deep to!!!!!grrrrrrr

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:33 pm

jefflaw35 wrote:Lol this is unreal!!! And they drove the deep to!!!!!grrrrrrr

just be careful when you are extracting them. the heads are soft and they will strip in a heartbeat. thousands and thousands and thousands of them. in places you never thought they could be. and just when you think you have them all out to remove that panel, there are 2 more of the little buggers, hidden underneath something. ahhhhhhhh i feel your pain buddy. i've been there and i've done that.

aaron the hebrew

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:35 pm

I drilled out 17 more today, unreal man

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:37 pm

jefflaw35 wrote:I drilled out 17 more today, unreal man

drilled? you mean you're supposed to drill em out? you have not LIVED until you've done a few by hand in those 'hard to reach' places! oh, check your PM box.....

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:42 pm

Lol I did any I had to drill, you have not lived until those flathead screws have lived under water!!!! Lol. It is a boat...

larryeddington · Post by **larryeddington** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:40 pm

Aleast they are soft and fairly easy to drill the head. Stainless would be a bitXXX. My boat has phillips heads you get one shot with the screw gun, if slips, you are screwed, pun intneded.

, then drill baby drill.

Bubbabuda · Post by **Bubbabuda** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:25 pm

I feel your pain!!!!!!! Wait til you get brass splinters in your fingers.

ready123 · Post by **ready123** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:54 pm

Also beware the Phillips head brass screws that are not in fact Phillips and require a specialized driver

The name escapes me for a moment but it will come back to me,

Google gives me the answer....
And then, there is a particularly invidious little SOB called a Reed and PrinceÂ® head. It looks just like a Phillips head... but it's not. The angles are differentâ€”different enough that you can ruin the screw head if you use a Phillips screwdriver on a Reed and Prince screw, or vice versa.
and better....
The Frearson screw drive, also known as the Reed and Prince screw drive, is similar to a Phillips but the Frearson has a more pointed 75Â° V shape. One advantage over the Phillips drive is that one driver or bit fits all screw sizes. It is often found in marine hardware and requires a Frearson screwdriver or bit to work properly. The tool recess is a perfect, sharp cross, allowing for higher applied torque, unlike the rounded, tapered Phillips head, which was designed to cam out at high torque. It was developed by an English inventor named Frearson in the 19th century and produced from the late 1930s to the mid-1970s by the Reed & Prince Manufacturing Company now of Leominster, Massachusetts.

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:53 pm

I always called it prince reed screw driver , But the correct name is the Reed and Prince.( as Ready said) I know this is the correct driver to use but I always for get .

Good post Ready

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:58 am

and then lets not for get the knuckle heads that S/S on risers or common carbon steel screws . I'm still replacing as I find them..

jefflaw35 · Post by **jefflaw35** » Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:48 am

Think I may have come across some of these screws as well. I found a good Phillips and one hard whack with a hammer redesigned the head and it comes right out