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Wow! These super-long timber screws will make you put your hammer away forever! No more drilling 1/2" holes for rusty rebar, then slugging away with a sledge hammer for hours. With a self-drilling point, these screws go into pressure-treated lumber like a hot knife through butter, they won’t back out like nails, and they offer substantially greater holding power. The new “Spider™” Drive (like an 8-point star) works great (you get a free bit with each pack of 25, or 3 bits per carton). The 3/16" shank has approximately 2" of 1/4" diameter threads and an oversize 5/8" diameter by 1/16" thick head (dimensions are nominal). A special black epoxy corrosion-resistant coating is extra slippery. Use of these screws in Redwood or Western Red Cedar is likely to result in discoloration. Mix or match for pricing discount. Made in the USA.
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Stablizing Outside Brick Walls to House.
By pudaniel
from Round Rock, Texas
About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about FastenMaster 1/4'' x 6'' Extra-Long Wafer Head Timber Screws - Spider Drive:
Our house is settling and causing cracks in bricks. When started repairing the bricks we found out tat most of the metal tabs that were suppose to be holding the bricks to the frame of the house were not used. We counter sunk holes drilled in the Brick at the studs and used the screws to hold the brick in place.
Staircase With Wafer Head Spider Drives
By Do-it-myself-er, Chuck
from Port Angeles, WA
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
I know that these are suggested for outdoor timbers, but they were a beautiful finishing touch to my heavy timber staircase and guard-rails. I predrilled with 3/16 bit, to about 1 inch short of the end of the treads. I used the 16 inch screws to penetrate the front of a 3 1/2 inch stair tread, a 3 1/2 inch spacer, the back of another 3 1/2 inch stair tread, and then 5 1/2 inches into a support beam. This left two screw heads visible, two inches from the front of each tread. 6 and 8 inch screws secure spindles to the treads, and 2 7/8 inch screws hold rails to the spindles. The heads are countersunk just below flush, and it is beautiful.
Best screw I'd used
By Larris
from Canaan, NH
About Me Professional
One caveat: could use more threads for soft pine!
Yeah, it IS a screw.
By No Flannel Al
from Kempner, TX
Yup, it IS a screw, just like the man says. It also drives pretty well without the impact driver, but impact is best. Never have had to pre-drill. Without the impact they tend to cam out under stress, which cause rust around the slots. But they definitely outlast the ACQ boards they were put in. The good news is every single box of these I've ever bought comes with two bits in it, so you don't have to worry about buying them.
Timber screws are great.
By GW
from Union Mills, NC
It's a screw, so how hard can it be to understand it? It drives easily with impact tool without predrilling, holds well. Some I installed in a timber flower bed 6 years ago are still in good shape, indeed lasting better than the preserved timbers! You do need a special bit, though--No surprise there.