Pan head screw 5 x 30

Snakeoil · Post by **Snakeoil** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:19 am

geosar wrote:Maybe I can freshen up the phillips slots. That is my major concern. Good idea however.

Now that the rectifier is completed, it may be time to crank up the zinc plate station.

Thank you for the suggestion.

And so it goes.

George

George,

Put the screws in a vise with soft jaws to protect the threads. Then with a small hammer you can move the upset metal back into the cross slots. I've fixed a lot of Phillips heads this way with really good results. Extremely buggered heads can be made to look better, but never really good. But slightly buggered slots with some raised metal can normally be made to look very good. Throw on a coat of zinc and nobody will ever notice.

regards,
Rob

geosar · Post by **geosar** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:56 pm

I will give it a try.

Thank for the advice.

George

geosar · Post by **geosar** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:08 pm

Rob

I place my buggered screws in a vice, tapped them with a hammer and it works!

Thank you for the suggestion. One points cover screw had virtually no cross on the top for the phillips screw driver.

In my humble opinion it has been turned into a "10".

Looks pretty good from 10 feet away.

Another milestone.

George

Arizona

Snakeoil · Post by **Snakeoil** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:53 pm

Sometimes a hammer is the right tool.

Glad it worked out George.

regards,
Rob