How to Tighten a Screw Without a Screwdriver

How to Tighten a Screw Without a Screwdriver

You can screw a screw into a tree in three ways, with a screwdriver, a screwdriver or a drill. The easiest and most cost-effective way to tighten the screw with a screwdriver. The wood material is soft and pliable, which allows you to screw a sufficient number of screws with a screwdriver into it without much fatigue. In order to tighten a large number of screws, you will have to resort to the help of a screwdriver, he will perform all the power part of the work for you. Screwing a self-tapping screw into a tree with a drill will also not be difficult, but for this, the drill must have a function for smoothly adjusting the speed.

How to screw a screw into a tree with a screwdriver.

In most cases, it is necessary to twist the screws into the tree with two types of slot, flat and cross-shaped. To tighten such screws, the appropriate screwdrivers with a flat (marking SL) or Phillips (marking PH) tip are selected. You can also find cross-shaped bits marked PZ on sale. PZ bits have additional faces and are used for slotted screws. Sometimes screwdrivers with a flat tip are called minus, and with a cross-shaped tip they are called plus or curly. In addition to the letter index, their marking also includes digital indexing, which indicates the width of the flat tip or the group to which the cross-shaped tip belongs. When making furniture with your own hands, most often you have to screw the screws with a screwdriver with a diameter of 2.2 to 4.2 millimeters. Therefore, for screwing into a tree of screws with a flat slot, the designation of the screwdriver should be SL from 4 to 8, and for screwing into a tree of screws with a crosswise slot, the designation of the screwdriver should be PH or PZ 1 or 2.

How to screw a screw into a tree with a screwdriver.

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Even a person far from this business can handle a screwdriver in a tree with a screwdriver, since a screwdriver will do all the work for you, you just need to choose the right nozzle for a screwdriver (bat). The rules that you need to adhere to when choosing bits for twisting screws into a tree are the same as when choosing a screwdriver.

How to screw a screw into a tree with a drill.

To screw the screws into the tree, the drill must have the function of electronic speed control. In other words, the rotation speed of the drill chuck should smoothly increase as you press the button. It is also worth remembering that most drills do not have the function of adjusting the maximum force like a screwdriver, and therefore you need to independently control the depth of twist of the screw and remove the finger from the button in time. An ordinary drill has enough power to screw a self-tapping screw deep into a tree or even tear off the head of a self-tapping screw.

How to tighten a self-tapping screw without a screwdriver and without a screwdriver.

This method of twisting self-tapping screws is, of course, an exception to the rule, but in some cases when you really need it and only a drill and self-tapping screws are at hand, there is nothing left to do except clamp the screw head directly into the cartridge and slowly twist it. So that the self-tapping screw does not scroll in the cartridge, you can tap the edge of the self-tapping head with a hammer several times so that it does not become round but slightly deformed.

What drill to drill under a screw into a tree.

It is not necessary to pre-drill a hole, since a self-tapping screw is nothing more than a self-tapping screw, and according to the manufacturer’s specifications, it is screwed into wood and plastic without drilling. In confirmation of this, you can think about what a drill should be for drilling under a 4.8100 wood screw, and if you think logically, the diameter of the drill should be about 3 mm. and length not less than 130 mm. (100 drill and 30 clamp in the drill chuck). It is unlikely that such a drill can be found on sale.

And finally. remember that a poorly boarded-up self-tapping screw holds much better than a well-twisted nail.