welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're going to have some fun fun with wood screws I'm
going to go over some of the wood screws that I prefer to use the reasons why and I got a little
bit of a demonstration and I'm going to show you exactly why some screws are not suited for the
best locations that I see far too many people using them in and a lot of people don't realize
the clamping force of a screw what the intended purpose is and let's get to that right now let's
take a look at the screws first and then I'll show you the demonstration well here's all the
screws lined up here and these are my go-to wood screws for ninety percent of the projects that
you're going to see that I built different items on my channel with and I really like
these and they have like a nice head on them there that gives some great clamping force and
these are terrific screws now this is just a regular smaller deck screw and for fences and
deck boards they work terrific and you got the longer ones here now these ones here I haven't
show them before and explain them much but these ones here are probably the best that I have seen
so far for a heavy-duty construction screw and I prefer these and they are just awesome because the
clamping force is incredible and of course when you buy a box they give you the Torx bit that
goes with it and as you can see here I bought multiple boxes overtime and these are the three
and a quarter inch length and these ones here are the one and a half inch length so I got a
brand new box today and this is them right here and I don't sell anything on my channel of course
but I am going to show you what's inside this box because this is the only wood screws that
I've ever seen before that come like this and I'm going to show you it's very odd let's just open up
this box right here and take a look generally on my channel I do not do open boxes kind of videos
in this particular case I just want to show you how these are individually packaged and I think
it's just incredible now here's the screws here inside of this box I'll just show you a little
close-up view of it there and just amazing how these things actually come packaged and of course
this is it here and so these are 2 inch so I'm gonna have to have another tray here to replace
my two-inch and it comes with a bit and I think by far like I mean I'm paying $10 for a box of
these they seem expensive to you but these things are just terrific so let's take a look and see why
I'm claiming these are much better than using your ordinary like safe you go for your average number
a deck screw well let's just take a look and see what we have here we have the Torx bit that comes
with the screws there's the screw itself it is one and a half inch long with a quarter inch shank now
these screws come in various links and the next size up would be 5/16 and it does come in a 3/8
and here is your regular number 8 deck screw and it's a square drive so let's try them out
and see if you can actually notice what is wrong with your average deck screw when you're talking
about clamping force well first up is going to be the deck screw now I want you to watch
the penetration of the deck screw in relation to this shank here and see how far it goes in
well it goes in as far that I couldn't drill no longer so let's try the next one so I'll just
pick rate underneath out one here we go I'm just spinning that it cannot go any further
it is stopped on the outside and it has not gone through the backside well let's just take a little
closer look here as you could see yeah it's just the the big head on it just stopped it
from penetrating any further and you could see on the other side well let's take a look and see how
far it went they went all the way through until I lost my bit range of driving it any further but if
I would have had a smaller diameter bit I could have drove that race straight through the whole
2x4 so what is the purpose of all this little test here well I'm going to tell you something
if you have a fence you're building a fence and you want to put up a fence board these screws are
terrific they're terrific now they're gonna cost you a lot more than putting in nails but you know
what you can take a fence board off easily when you have screws nails not so easy same as your
deck now they're only meant to hold the board in place so when you put a fence board on generally
the average person doesn't just keep on holding the trigger right and make holes right through
your wood no that's useless they just countersink it enough to be flush right but as you could see
it's only holding it on the clamping force is not very much so same as when you have a deck
same thing with a deck it's only meant to hold the board on it's not meant for any kind of structural
type of clamping force because it's a tapered top and you know the whole purpose behind it is just
to hold the board in there that's all it's doing so when you want to get something with some some
huge clamping force well this is the tie but screw that you would use and of course you wouldn't want
to stick this on your fence or on your your deck right but a lot of people over the years
have used these number-8 deck screws for pretty much everything and didn't realize it doesn't
have much clamping force at all to it it's only meant just to hold it there so I hope you found
this informative a little bit and a nice little demonstration and pick the right fastener for your
particular use check with your local building Department on what fastener is best for your
area and you can't go wrong so thanks for joining me here today you haven't seen this channel for
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