“I’m starting with the kitchen cabinets”

33 Replies to ““I’m starting with the kitchen cabinets””

1. The only screws I ever use. They stick to the drill. I ran through a hundred or so 6 inch screws working with some 4x4s. I only managed to strip only a couple heads.

   1. an obvious mentally ill liberal

      1. Square hole, round object. The favorite screw of lgbqtrannies

2. As the saying goes “You can’t fix stupid.”

3. “My wife is on board with the project, too,” said Eby. “To be honest, she’s been complaining about the quality of screws in this house for a long time.”

   For drywalling, I actually prefer Phillips screws.

   1. The Babylon Bee has some competition.

   2. Hey Garth, how clueless are you? Wifey kinda spells it out for you. Maybe make a visit to Bob Robertson across the street, huh?

   3. I hate robertsons. one slightly damaged bit,and you will round the square. That can happen when someone has countersunk the screw below the wood level and you can’t see the screw well, then yr hooped.

      1. Easy take out for that problem, use a dremmel to cut a slot in the top and carefully back out with (gasp) a common screwdriver.

         1. except when the screw has been run into the wood 3/8 of an inch or more(which happened with some grow beds I was dismantling ), guy who put them together was in a hurry and powered them in too deep.

      2. You won’t have that problem when you stop using Chi-comm bits and screws.

   4. “she’s been complaining about the quality of screws in this house for a long time.”

      I’m sorry, I’ll read that again………..

      1. What aren’t chi-com.. Our gov. is chi-com.

      2. What aren’t chi-com.. Our gov. is chi-com.

4. Is there not a member of the Eby family that isn’t a complete and total moron?

5. The Babylon Bee has some competition.

6. I guess some people don’t know how to screw!

   1. Well Mi KeHunt … I know how to screw … but I only do front holes. None of those screws where you have to come in from the back of the cabinet

      Yes, I have a very large steel shafted driver. But it’s manual. No batteries included. Sometimes it takes a while to drive the screw.

7. That’ll learn’em.

8. What is it about all our current generations? My father’s and grandfathers generations BUILT everything we have … and the current generations wanna “tear it all down maa’aaan” … even our own kitchen cabinets. What’s up with that?

9. Funny & self deprecating.
   In reality, I think this attitude is likely to last, tariffs or not.

10. If you mix Milk of Magnesia with vodka, you get a Philips Screwdriver. (Geezer joke)

11. *chuckle* The punchline was great. Didn’t see it coming.

    1. I missed it on the first reading … thanks. Yep … the flatpak cabinets made in China. Perfectly “Canadian”

12. I’ve had good luck with Robertson screws. Very solid design and far less prone to slippage than Phillips screws. I’ll keep using them, regardless of tariffs or other nonsense.

    Torx screws are also excellent and almost as good as Robertsons as well.

    1. Star drive is my first choice. They NEVER strip.

13. No wonder Canadian productivity is in the toilet. What’s next? Moving a pile of dirt from one corner of a backyard to another?!

14. Ah come on, they’re just screwing with us.

15. “World reorganization or downfall, and the remedy; a composite picture of the causes of the present disequilibrium in the world–analyzing the extent of war costs, losses, debts, reparations, gold shortage and of the resulting chaos, but, with a plan for the redistribution of gold, revaluation of gold, immediate liquidation of war debts, a full covering of currencies, and an international coinage”.

    All in a book entitled “World Reorganization or Downfall, and the Remedy” by P.J. Robertson, inventor of the Robertson screw. From 1932.

    Rumor has it that Robertson visited Henry Ford after the Ford Motor Company started using Robertson screws at their car factory in Windsor, Ontario. But Henry wanted to buy out Robertson as he wanted to own the entire supply chain of his company. Robertson refused and Ford had the Robertson screw effectively banned from the US until after the patent expired. Back in the days of free trade.

    My father visited the Robertson “factory” a number of years ago in Milton, Ontario to see if he could still buy an original Robertson screw driver (he already had one – a red handle size). He asked the guy if they still made Robertson screws in Canada and the guy laughed.

16. 2001 – Robertson starts manufacturing in China.

    https://www.robertsonscrew.com/history/

    The guy disassembling his kitchen cabinets must have a screw loose somewhere.

17. As an aircraft mechanic I have had to remove tens of thousands of Phillips-head screws. The aviation industry is dominated by the US, so that’s what we get. You won’t see Robertson screws in any airplane, and there are reasons beyond the historical one for that: that square hole represents too much lost metal near the junction of the head and screw shank, and so the head can pop off more easily.

    As far as worn screwdrivers: that applies to EVERY screw drive style. A worn driver will wreck the drive socket. It’s false economy to keep using worn screwdrivers or driver tips. I went through a lot of Phillips bits.

    The Americans started using Robertsons maybe 20 or 25 years ago. They call it “square socket drive.”

    All that said: I use Robertsons in almost all my projects. But not on airplanes.

    1. “A worn driver will wreck the drive socket. It’s false economy to keep using worn screwdrivers or driver tips.”

       Considering ten tips cost something like 5 bucks. Also using the wrong size head leads to a short life.

18. Vodka, orange juice and Milk of Magnesia is the classic Phillips screwdriver.