kreg Jig screws , anything else you can use?

[bdeditch]

Just wondering if there is another brand of the pocket hole screws around, instead of the kreg brand.

[Morris Dovey]

| Just wondering if there is another brand of the pocket hole screws | around, instead of the kreg brand.

Sure. Check out McFeelys. You can also use #7 and #8 pan head screws that you can buy from many hardware vendors.

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[CW]

Mcfeely's sells them.

[Leon]

Yes there are but IIRC Kregs are the cheapest. At least the last time I checked.

[DJ Delorie]

I tried their regular pocket screws and ended up returning them; the Kregs fit a LOT better in the holes.

However, their Powermax screws work great.

[CW]

I wonder what the OP's reason for something different. I use the Kreg screws with complete satisfaction. Never really felt the need to look elsewhere.

[David]

Maybe he's cheap? What other reason could there be?

Dave

[CW]

Nothing wrong with trying to get the most for your money though they couldn't be that expensive. I don't even know how much a box of Kreg screws cost. I just bought some about three days ago. Obviously cheap enough that it didn't make an impression. He could, of course, be using hundreds. In that case, cost would be a bigger factor.

[bdeditch]

[jhewitt]

Maybe he can't find them where he lives? Can't find Kreg, or any other flathead wood screw here in Spain. So I use all purpose wood metal screws with flat heads. They work so so.

John Hewitt, Malaga, Spain

[bdeditch]

[Stonegrift]

Well all you have to remember is two things it needs to be a wood screw and it needs a flat head or is it "shoulder" Not one of the sloped style that self recesses.