Slotted Wood Screws

[gordon stelter]

Not only are 99% of all screws today "Phillips", but
almost all are of deplorably cheap "quality", being
stamped from light, soft metal, instead of being
turned from good steel on a lathe, as the old screws
were. 
    New screws will snap off at much less torque than
the old ones.
     I keep screws from pianos that are "too far
gone", and clean up rusty ones on a  wire wheel, or in
a quick bath of muriatic acid followed by a thorough
rinse.  They are then dried in a metal colander
sitting on a hot plate ( on "Warm" ), then dumped into
a bucket and hit with a little engine foigging oil to
prevent surface rust from re-forming, and covered with
a  snap on lid.
    If anyone has a better method of salvaging and
storing old screws, do please share it.
     Thanks!
     Thump

--- Hechler Family <dahechler@charter.net> wrote:
> If you haven't already, start saving all slot head
> wood screws !!!  
> Since I needed slot head wood screws to work on my
> player piano, I went 
> to my local hardware store to buy some. Much to my
> surprise, 99% of what 
> I saw were Phillips head screws. I cornered a guy
> and he told me that 
> flat head screws are passe' and getting are to find.
> Everything is going 
> to Phillips, Square or Torcs (star) head. So, "to
> keep from getting 
> screwed" ;-) , save those screws !!
> 
> -- 
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Organ, Pump Organ
> Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
> Reed Organ Society Member
> St. Louis, MO 63034
> (314) 838-5587
> dahechler@charter.net
> 
> 
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