Just been looking through the screw fix book for screws and why oh why aresome metric ( dia mm x length mm ) and some are imperial ( gauge x lengthinches ) and not forgetting ( M dia x length mm ) so my question is when youbuy a drill it's in mm dia how do you know what screws will be suitable???Rich

Doesn't matter. For small screws in softwood you can often get awaywithout a pilot hole; when you do need one, the size of the pilot holeis not critical. p6 of the Screwfix cat has a handy-dandy little tableillustrating the point - if you want to be bothered, calculate thedifference between the actual sizes of the metric vs imperial pilotholes and you'll see some variation.Bottom line - buy whichever set of sizes you feel comfy with and whichhas the flavour of screw you're after.Stefek

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Oct 25, 2003 22 Replies

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Grunff 22 years ago

You must have soft girlie hands... ;-)

I know exactly what you mean. It makes for a nasty jagged cut too.

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Thomas Prufer 22 years ago

A trick a pro showed me: you bandage the fingers *beforehand*. Masking tape, band-aid, bandage, pretty much anything works.

Thomas Prufer

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usenet 22 years ago

I have some Spax screws similar to the ScrewFix Turbogold ones and I think the ScrewFix ones are better. I haven't seen or used the Spax ones with serrated ends though.

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