sean_murray•24d agoProlific Poster

The day I found out I was stripping my screws for years

I spent like 7 years driving screws into wood and always wondered why they stripped so easy. Last week I was helping my neighbor build a deck in Denver and he looked at my drill and just laughed. Turns out I was using the clutch setting wrong and had it on maximum torque for everything. He showed me how to dial it back for soft pine and suddenly screws went in smooth as butter. Anyone else have a basic tool setting they ignored for way too long?

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faith_lopez4824d ago

Yeah, I did the same thing for like two years on drywall screws until my dad finally watched me and said "you're overtorquing everything." Dialing it down to like 3-4 for pine changed my whole life.

margaret_nelson24d ago

Spent a whole year stripping out deck screws because I just grabbed any bit and jammed it in, didn't even check if the size matched the screw head. Finally my neighbor handed me a proper Phillips bit and the difference was night and day, never realized how much wear and tear I was causing. Felt pretty dumb but at least I learned before ruining my whole project.