Posidrive or slotted screws for woodwork?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

More the difference a craftsman would make. But you'd not know anything about that.

[Mr Macaw]

Didn't spot that, as it vanishes when I start replying.

Why has Australia not adopted Pozidrives?

[Mr Macaw]

Yes but they're a load of old fuddy duddies!

[Mr Macaw]

A screw is hardly a large part of a piece of furniture. Hiding a screw I will admit makes it look better, but seeing a straight screw is just as irritating as seeing a pozidrive one.

[Mr Macaw]

The entire frame of a painting is 100 times bigger than a screw.

[Mr Macaw]

I wonder which can take more torque? There must be a comparison chart somewhere. Or some simple law of Physics.

[News]

In message , Mr Macaw writes

When a screw is visible on a piece of furniture, the furniture probably came from MFI :-)

[Mr Macaw]

No no no, they have those stylish plastic screw caps!

[whisky-dave]

Ah yeah right I see you've missed the point.

if you have a picture you've been sold to you as the mona lisa and an original and it's in a plastic frame with hiddeen screws or even a woodent frame with hidden or obvious screws it is a fake.

[whisky-dave]

That's your fault then for not using the little plastic plugs for covering such things up.

Didn't MFI go out of buisness about 6 years ago ?

[Mr Macaw]

So? The point is if it looks nice. A plastic frame looks like cheap shit. A screw won't change anything.

[Mr Macaw]

Isn't MFI a branch of B&Q? There was never actually a shop called "MFI".

[PeterC]

One example of Pozi ruining the appearance of a job: a half-scale, road-legal, steam lorry. Lovely job, not fully authentic in detail but at least the modern(er) fittings were nice brass - held on with silver Pozis! Even passivated ones wouldn't have been so glaring, but cross-head just looked so wrong. The builder of it said it was difficult to get slotted brass screws...!

[charles]

There was at least one, which I visited in the 1960s, just off the Kingston Bypass at Shannon Corner.

[Chris French]

MFI was never a branch of B&Q, it had lots of stores.

111 which it closed down in 2008 according to this

It probably had more than that at it's height.

[whisky-dave]

Depends who you're scewing or whether your being screwed.

if you buy a 'geniune chippendale table' on ebay and it has phillips or pozidrive screws (even if they have been hidden with little plasic bits)

you are being screwed. if you're selling the cross that Jesus was on and you've but it together with pozidrive screws then you're attepting to screw someone not nail them ;-)

[whisky-dave]

I brought my kitchen from MFI in 2005/6 they did exist and tehy weren't B&Q .

[charles]

There was a Punch cartoon on this there some years ago. Antique shop owner looks into workshop and says : "Mr Jenkins, I'm having a sudden twinge of conscience. Would you mind changing your name to Chippendale?"

[Mr Macaw]

Surely they can make pozidrive brass screws? Slotted brass screws have never struck me as feeling softer than slotted steel.

[Mr Macaw]

Screwed by a Chippendale? Kinky!