Kreg's New Universal Head Screws.

RonB · 2013-02-06T21:29:07+00:00

What do you guys think of the new Kreg pocket hole screws with the universa=l head? I ordered 1,000 of them a month or so ago and when I opened the bo=x two things struck me:- They were silver (I had heard that was coming).- My first thought was they had Phillips heads - Oh Oh!Then I took a close look, saw the square drive was incorporated into the Ph=illips cross. I Googled a bit and saw that was the new design and decided =it would be fine.Now I am back to my first though - Oh Oh. I have probably driven more than= 1,800 Kreg screws in the last 4-5 years and have never stripped a head or =snapped a screw. In the past couple of weeks I have stripped the heads on =three of the new screws and snapped the first one ever. With some of these= screws the square screwdriver head just doesn't seem to seat into the head= well.Am I having bad luck or are you guys having problems too?RonB

Feb 06, 2013 20 Replies

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Leon 13 years ago

I predrilled, more to guide the screw, and used my impact driver.

At my old house the lumber rack was in our store room, I used the common no name lag screws and twisted the head off using the impact and before the head was seated. Fortunately there was .75~1" sticking out for the vice grips to grab.

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