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Old 01-04-2019, 07:38 AM   #20
aermotor
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Default Re: broken screws in oak, drill or give up?

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Originally Posted by leo View Post
Save yourself a lot of trouble and use only steel or stainless steel screws when you can find them. The quality of hardware fasteners today is crap and that is why they break while being screwed in.
Pre drilling (OMG) will help. There are chart's that show different size drills to use with hard wood and soft wood.


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