I need some #6 by 5/8″ wood screws with thin oval heads. Think of an all wood machinest chest. Think of wood rails on the inside of the chest that the drawers slide on. The drawers have a 1/2 wide dado on the outside of each side of the drawer. The dado slides on the rail on each side. (Hope that makes sense.)
I will drill a hole just large enough for the threaded portion of the screw to go all the way through into the side of the case/chest. Then (actually first, before the other hole) a hole the diameter of the head of the screw and only deep enough in the rail for the head to go in just below the surface of the rail. So the drawer won’t catch on it.
Thought as long as I am here I would ask who are all your sources for specialty wood screws and/or fastners in general.
Thanks,
Alan – planesaw
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If you are countersinking the screws and they don't show, what difference does it make if they are oval head? Wouldn't a normal flat head work and require less of a countersink, or am I missing something? You could use brads and glue, wood pegs, a dado, dovetail dado, rabbeted or T&G groove for the runners, too.
If I need specialty fasteners, I have a Reliable Fastener in the next town. My walking distance Ace hardware would order anything I wanted, Graingers and of course, ordering on line. I must have a hundred thousand fasteners in the shop, I'd just as soon make some of those work instead of buying more, that will end up in one of a dozen coffee cans, filled with mixed screws, that I dump out on the bench and paw through, always intending to sort them out and put them in marked containers by size and type but that won't happen because I'll need 500 more containers to go with the 200 I already have, that actually are organized, and after dumping two cans and not finding what I want, just grab the dykes and cut off a sheetrock screw, even though I know I had some of those short drawer slide screws, someplace and I won't rob the screws out of that pack of hinges that I haven't found use for in 15 yrs. just in case. Don't mind me, Alan, I'm having some personal issues with my fasteners.
5/8" #5 & #6 oval head screws are standard for many cabinet hinges.
http://www.thehardwarehut.com/catalog-product.php?p_ref=265307
Hammer1
Hammer,
First, I have always like your tag line.
Now, oval or not. There are three screws per drawer runner. The first one will hold the runner tight to the side wall of the chest. I will drill slots for the other two in case there is any expansion. I think the wood will be able to move easier without binding if the screw has a flat surface, the underside of the oval head, rather than a V shaped surface.
Like you, I have many many many many fasteners. The majority are fairly well organized. Then there are the others.
Thanks,
Alan - planesaw
McFeely's
I really like McFeely's, they pride themselves as being screw experts and being the square drive screw people. I've purchased a Systainer Sortainer of their square drive wood screws and have been very impressed.
Jointerman
Hey, thanks for reminding me of McFeelys.
Alan - planesaw
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