Home Depot 1/4" Lag Screw

[Red Green]

" [e-mail]" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Sounds like Williston VT.

[Tony]

LOL, I think you hit the nail on the head!

[Leon]

Typically head bolts are very application specific and are typically made "torque to yield". I am not sure I have ever seen a common head bolt used from common bolt stock.

[Chris Friesen]

What are you smoking? They sell spax, which are made in Germany.

Chris

[Leon]

And why not angle parking, straight in parking does not save any more space as you need wider lanes.

[Leon]

Grainger but McFeeleys has had an expanded product line for quite a some time, long before the buy out.

[Stormin Mormon]

I resemble that remark, prolly. The director of Media Services (supervised all the libraries in my school district) was named Felgenhour. He used to say "prolly", and "Prekesit". "Yes, my secretary is both good typist and good looking. That's a job prekesit". He did get a bit steamed when one of the girls in my class started calling him "Felgy". He was a bit too serious, prolly.

I used to use 8 x 3" strike plate screws, when I installed more deadbolts. They worked fine. 1/8 inch pilot hole, and then inject the hole full of petroleum jelly.

[Chris Friesen]

That seems odd.

For optimum strength in softwood, you want the pilot hole to be about

0.7 times the diameter of the root diameter of the screw. (0.9x in hardwood--or more particularly for wood with a specific gravity greater than 0.6) The clearance hole should be big enough that the threads don't engage, of course.

The above is from:

Chris

[JoeSpareBedroom]

These diseases spread much too easily.

[Stormin Mormon]

The Henrietta, NY Home Depot, I won't even go in there. The parking lot requires three or four "crank the wheel all the way" to get around the parking lot medians and dividers. The Victor NY store isn't so bad.

[Leon]

I have a Fastenal very close to me. Is that a good place to buy screws, walk in? I was under the impression that they were more like a jobber service.

Speaking of which and talking about out side exposure, I have McFeeley non coated screws out in my front yard that I used along rail road ties to string Christmas light about 18 years ago. All are facing head up so water collects in the square drives. All are still in good condition.

[Stormin Mormon]

I share in the blame. I buy a lot of stuff at Walmart.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

I hope you're kidding, but I suspect you're not.

[Stormin Mormon]

I use vetrinary syringes with needles (bench grinder -- grind the needle flat nose) to dispense aluminum anti oxidant, for electrical connections. So far, no one has made an issue of it.

The cow teat syringes are obviously harmless, and they attract no attention at all.

Ah, well. Some folks worry about things.

[Leon]

Well I will have to disagree but not totally. There is an old hardware store in Nacogdoches TX, oldest town in Texas. The hardware store has wooden floors that roll and dip and squeek. They have old oak display counters and cabinets and if they dont have it, it probably can't be had, so to speak. They have the cheap stuff too.

Locally we have a hardware store that has been in business for almost 60 years and still family owned and run. It is centrally located between 2 HD's and a Lowe's. They beat their competition's price on same thing items and they some where along the way became either an ACE or Tru-Value. They have great stuff, great service, and stuff they steer "me" away from the crap that they also have.

" Real" hardware stores have crap too.

Perhaps a "real" hardware store has employees that know their product.

[Leon]

I knew some one would mention soap. It works good to get the screw in but most soaps have water and corode the fastener over time.

[Leon]

I responded to Doug on a similar note. The old country hardware stores can be good if the owners know how to run a business compeditively. I have a hardware store near me that is thriving, with 3 big box stores within 10 minutes drive, and they beat the big box prices.

[J. Clarke]

Hey, at lease she waren't callin' 'im "Felgercarb".

[Tom Watson]

The 27th Edition lists the root diameter of a 1/4" lag bolt as .173".

The next natural drill size is .187, or 3/16".

Regards,

Tom Watson

[Leon]

So who is to "blame"? Walmart or the consumers who demanded a cheaper knife?

Who is to blame, the store that lost it's business is to blame. Blaming others has never been a good excuse for why a business fails. Again I mention, near me an old hardware store with lots of big competition, they beat the competition prices and service, and they are constantly expanding. Competing does not just mean cheaper. Service goes a long way and if the store does not provide a compeditive alternative attraction they will go under.