Good quality screws?


rickoman

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I wouldn't expect a brass screw to be equivalent to a steel screw.  Brass is much softer. Unless the wood is soft, I'd pre-drill, then pre-screw with an identical steel screw, and use hand power to drive the brass screw.  10,000 of them would be a chore.

If the wood isn't really hard, I might get away with pre-drilling a generous pilot hole and using a drill-driver instead of an impact driver.  But I'd expect to strip several.

I apologize if I'm stating the obvious.

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I wouldn't expect a brass screw to be equivalent to a steel screw.  Brass is much softer. Unless the wood is soft, I'd pre-drill, then pre-screw with an identical steel screw, and use hand power to drive the brass screw.  10,000 of them would be a chore.

If the wood isn't really hard, I might get away with pre-drilling a generous pilot hole and using a drill-driver instead of an impact driver.  But I'd expect to strip several.

I apologize if I'm stating the obvious.

Actually, the screw is going to be in the packaging, so it would be a matter of each buyer needing to set a handful with the product, not me setting 10,000 of them. 

I just want the screw in the packaging to be a good one.  Yes, brass is softer, but some if this stuff is strips as if the screw were made of frozen butter.

 

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Actually, the screw is going to be in the packaging, so it would be a matter of each buyer needing to set a handful with the product, not me setting 10,000 of them. 

I just want the screw in the packaging to be a good one.  Yes, brass is softer, but some if this stuff is strips as if the screw were made of frozen butter.

 

Just a thought - not sure what your product is, but if you're sending brass screws with it and letting the user deal with them, I can almost guarantee you'll be getting complaints because 99% of people don't know how to use brass screws, will screw (pun intended) it up, and then complain to you that you gave them a shoddy product.  

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After spending the day on this, I have 2 conclusions:

Basically all the brass on the planet comes from Asia now, and making them in the US won't really change anything on that front.

Making them here will provide for a nicer finish, detailing, and those sorts of possibilities, but otherwise there is not much to gain.

Rather frustrating, but that's globalization.

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Did you actually call Goulet?  Their page says "any size from 0 to ⅜ and metrics from M2 through M10..." This page is actually the quote form for #2 bronze:  http://www.oemfasteners.net/2sbctwsf.html

 

 

I did, at length actually.  I am waiting for a price quote.  I didn't specifically ask where their brass comes from, but from other suppliers I contacted today, they all said the same thing: brass is from China/Taiwan.

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