[SEL] Trailer Deck Engine Blocking

[Alan]

Arnie, You have been nuked or something.
If the square drive holes aren't full of crud and you use the right bit they 
won't strip out like that.

Whenever one of my cordless or even a power drill goes out my drill accessory 
kit goes too.
There are at least a dozen square drive inserts and two dozen Phillip's inserts in there.
If one does leave a drill and I don't have the kit with me it goes in my pocket.
I do reuse the square drive screws.

These are tools to me.
Aren't they actually toys to you? 8>))

Alan in Michigan

--- On Sat, 12/20/08, fero_ah at city-net.com <fero_ah at city-net.com> wrote:

From: fero_ah at city-net.com <fero_ah at city-net.com>
Subject: Re: [SEL] Trailer Deck Engine Blocking
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 11:39 AM

Hi Alan,

I had exactly the opposite experience.  I started using the square drive screws
and had two problems.  One, the screw heads stripped out, and two if you
rounded or lost the square drive bit, you were screwed.  EVERYONE has the
Phillips bits and can loan you one in a pinch.

There are two keys to using the Phillips deck screws.  Buy top quality screws
(they strip out less often) and really press down to get good contact while
you're driving the screws.  And one more thing, I just don't reuse the screws. 
Sure it's wasteful, but the hassle of a stripped screw head far outweighs the
price of a box of screws.

See ya,  Arnie

Quoting Alan <rustaholic777 at yahoo.com>:

> I prefer the square drive decking screws for screwing down the blocks on my
> trailer.  This really helps the engines stay where I want them to.
> The square drive doesn't strip out like the Phillips drive ones do.