Posidrive or slotted screws for woodwork?

[jack]

Nope, the metal isnt strong enough.

They don't have the same very small bits that a pozidriv screw head has.

[Chris French]

In message , jack writes

You can get solid brass pozidrive screws

[Mr Macaw]

Show me where. I looked on Ebay and they weren't there.

[Martin Bonner]

Feeding "Brass pozi drive screws solid" to google gave me lots of hits. For example:

[Dave Plowman (News)]

9,11,13, 16 and 18mm spanner sizes are all fairly uncommon on cars.

[Chris French]

First random ebay link:

[dennis]

B&Q!

[Mr Macaw]

Ah, I typed pz2 which usually gives me the screws I want.

[Mr Macaw]

You said "solid" - are most "brass" screws not solid brass?

[Mr Macaw]

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[Mr Macaw]

Even the bloody wheel nuts weren't standard on my Peugeot. I thought all cars used 17mm?

[Fredxxx]

No, as evidenced by spiders with all sides of sockets at each end.

These don't cost a lot:

Mine are 19mm.

[Adrian]

Most are 19mm.

[Clive George]

Mine have all been too. The Peugeot will be 19mm as well. Usefully it's also 3/4".

[Clive George]

I'll assume that 13 is a typo :-)

[Fredxxx]

I guess that depends on the manufacturer. Many bolts on cars I have had have been 13mm. Strangely the Japanese etc seem to prefer 12mm ans their de facto size!

[Clive George]

13mm is standard M8, so it's likely to be quite common.

[Mr Macaw]

My recollection of the standard being 17 may be incorrect. But every one of the approx 10-15 cars I've ever had (except that Peugeot) used the same wheelnuts (I know because that's the bit I always wear out / lose / replace in my socket set). When I mentioned this to a colleague, he said he'd had the same problem (and I'm sure his was also a Peugeot), and he handed me a spider he didn't use anymore (although it only had 4 legs not your 6).

Anyway, since having a Golf where the wheelnuts continually tightened themselves while driving, I now have a very long extendable knuckle breaker bar and a 17 (or whatever it is) bit from my socket set to undo nuts. It required me to jump up and down on the bar to loosen a nut, even though I didn't use much force at all to previously tighten it. This was the complete opposite to my Espace which continually loosened the nuts. No matter how tight I made them, one of the wheels would begin to wobble after a month if I didn't continually check them.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

When you say 13mm, are you talking bolt or spanner size? A 13mm thread is actually rather large for most things on a car.

[Clive George]

Spanner, same as the rest of the thread.