I was wondering what brand of screw do most of you prefer based off of quality alone, and what brand do you consider "garbage"?
Favorite Brand of Screw?
mjp2519
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I'm a full-on Grabber man. One of the supply houses here used to carry Strong Point screws which were the best I've ever used (but SHARP!) but they switched to some garbage after a couple of months. I love the free bit in the box, although they are made so well I never have to replace them.
A post from a diy forum to use the gold ones?
As a pro remodeling contractor I go through a fair amount of drywall screws.
Mostly 1.25" black course thread. These screws used to be fairly "dry" but
for about the past five years or so I have had a real hard time finding
screws that are not covered with oil. This oil is stinky greasy petrol
smelling stuff that makes the screws unpleasant to handle. Gets all over my
fingers, it's probably toxic, and could keep the mud from sticking to the
screw heads? This problem is not just with the off brand / Borg screws. The
last box i bought were "Grabber" brand screws... same problem. So there is an
800 # on the box which i called and had a long convo with a guy at Grabber.
He said there "shouldn't" be much oil on the screws and yes it could cause
problems with the mud sticking. One of the things he suggested is to try the
gold screws instead of the black screws. In my 25 years of construction work
every drywall job i've ever been around it seemed to be standard practice to
use the black screws so this is what I've always done.
Is there any reason not to use the gold screws for drywall?
As a pro remodeling contractor I go through a fair amount of drywall screws.
Mostly 1.25" black course thread. These screws used to be fairly "dry" but
for about the past five years or so I have had a real hard time finding
screws that are not covered with oil. This oil is stinky greasy petrol
smelling stuff that makes the screws unpleasant to handle. Gets all over my
fingers, it's probably toxic, and could keep the mud from sticking to the
screw heads? This problem is not just with the off brand / Borg screws. The
last box i bought were "Grabber" brand screws... same problem. So there is an
800 # on the box which i called and had a long convo with a guy at Grabber.
He said there "shouldn't" be much oil on the screws and yes it could cause
problems with the mud sticking. One of the things he suggested is to try the
gold screws instead of the black screws. In my 25 years of construction work
every drywall job i've ever been around it seemed to be standard practice to
use the black screws so this is what I've always done.
Is there any reason not to use the gold screws for drywall?
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Always was a grabber guy until i started using hilti screws i find you never get a bad one the grabbers weren't bad but always had a handfull of junk screws plus hilti screws get delivered to my front door with free shipping so cant beat that as for gold screws they are dry as a bone no oil have the the same box of 1 inch gold screws i bought ten years ago we use them for pocket doors
So then I would have a dusty greasy screw mud won't stick to? And dust boogers in the head of the screw = flip overs!:thumbsup:
Solution to greasy screw:
Save some drywall dust from your next routering job and pit in in your screw pouch. - Mix well. :yes:
makes sense..There both marked ..[made in Taiwan]
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