You want to build very simple rectangular Din571 Wood Screws
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:40 pm
Understand that wood is a natural product, therefore there is a probability that you'll run into a knot inside the wood. These areas usually do not accept Wood Screws nicely and so they may force you to move your mounting point.
The first scenario involves assembling a computer desk or table, because the material involved is a particular type of wood only certain screws can be used, these are designed to hold the pieces together giving it stability and preventing the parts from falling apart. When it comes to wood fixtures there isn't a "standard" set of screws which will work well with all pieces, some of them are: zinc plated, black oxide plated, stainless steel, just to name a few. Besides matching the type, you will also need to match the color of them, because you don't want bright stainless steel screw heads sticking out of a cherry-wood desk.
The second scenario is related to the first, we are now going to assemble the computer parts which will go on top of the desk just we just worked on. If you noticed, the screws which should be used in this type of job are considerably smaller so using "similar" ones will most likely end up breaking the computer part or chassis, that is why it is important to differentiate between screws designed for wood and those designed for computer parts, these are mostly silver and the most popular head style is the flanged-hex Phillips type;
Dealing with twists in your boards requires a more "brute force" course of action. Assuming the board will be straight as long as you bend it "flat" and keep it that way, what needs to be done is fairly straight-forward. You simply need to come up with a way that forces the wood to bend in the direction you want it to, while at the same time ensuring the opposite end doesn't start twisting out in the other direction.
For example, say you want to build a very simple rectangular door frame but your vertical boards look like Hexagonal wood screws . (Note that in real life there is only a certain degree of twisting a piece of wood can be "made" to recover from.) Attach the 2 vertical boards to the top horizontal one first.
The first scenario involves assembling a computer desk or table, because the material involved is a particular type of wood only certain screws can be used, these are designed to hold the pieces together giving it stability and preventing the parts from falling apart. When it comes to wood fixtures there isn't a "standard" set of screws which will work well with all pieces, some of them are: zinc plated, black oxide plated, stainless steel, just to name a few. Besides matching the type, you will also need to match the color of them, because you don't want bright stainless steel screw heads sticking out of a cherry-wood desk.
The second scenario is related to the first, we are now going to assemble the computer parts which will go on top of the desk just we just worked on. If you noticed, the screws which should be used in this type of job are considerably smaller so using "similar" ones will most likely end up breaking the computer part or chassis, that is why it is important to differentiate between screws designed for wood and those designed for computer parts, these are mostly silver and the most popular head style is the flanged-hex Phillips type;
Dealing with twists in your boards requires a more "brute force" course of action. Assuming the board will be straight as long as you bend it "flat" and keep it that way, what needs to be done is fairly straight-forward. You simply need to come up with a way that forces the wood to bend in the direction you want it to, while at the same time ensuring the opposite end doesn't start twisting out in the other direction.
For example, say you want to build a very simple rectangular door frame but your vertical boards look like Hexagonal wood screws . (Note that in real life there is only a certain degree of twisting a piece of wood can be "made" to recover from.) Attach the 2 vertical boards to the top horizontal one first.