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    Threading Wood For Machine Screws PDF

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    Machine screws can be used to make strong wood joints by cutting threads directly in wood using metal taps, rather than inserts. The process requires carefully drilling pilot and thread holes of the correct sizes, and using a tap to cut crisp threads in the wood by either hand or drill press. Proper tooling and technique allows durable, strong wood threads to be made for machine screws without much trouble.

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    Threading Wood For Machine Screws PDF

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    Machine screws can be used to make strong wood joints by cutting threads directly in wood using metal taps, rather than inserts. The process requires carefully drilling pilot and thread holes of the correct sizes, and using a tap to cut crisp threads in the wood by either hand or drill press. Proper tooling and technique allows durable, strong wood threads to be made for machine screws without much trouble.

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    Machine screws can be used to make strong wood joints by cutting threads directly in wood using metal taps, rather than inserts. The process requires carefully drilling pilot and thread holes of the correct sizes, and using a tap to cut crisp threads in the wood by either hand or drill press. Proper tooling and technique allows durable, strong wood threads to be made for machine screws without much trouble.

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    Machine screws can be used to make strong wood joints by cutting threads directly in wood using metal taps, rather than inserts. The process requires carefully drilling pilot and thread holes of the correct sizes, and using a tap to cut crisp threads in the wood by either hand or drill press. Proper tooling and technique allows durable, strong wood threads to be made for machine screws without much trouble.

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    Threading Wood

    for Machine Screws


    Cut durable threads in wood with metal taps
    by Pat Warner

    M
    achine screws make excellent will make a really tough knockdown joint.
    joints in wood. They are hard to Wood threads require careful drilling and
    break, and some of the head con- tapping. The wrong size drill bit or a mis-
    figurations are quite decorative. I use them aligned hole will lead to a weak connec-
    for knockdown furniture joints and for ad- tion. But by following the drilling schedule
    justable jigs that need to be strong. But ma- at right and using the proper tools, you
    chine screws are not as simple to use as can produce deep, crisp and strong threads
    wood screws because they don't cut their without too much trouble.
    own threads the way wood screws do. The only specialized tools that you will
    The most common solution is a threaded need are taps. I have taps in four screw
    insert (for more on this, see FWW #120, sizes: -16, -18, -20 and #10-24 (the
    pp. 79-81). But I've found you really don't first number is the diameter of the screw;
    need inserts to make strong joints with ma- the second is the number of threads per
    chine screws. Metal taps will cut crisp, inch). You will also need drill bits, transfer
    strong and durable threads in any hard- punches and countersinks.
    wood. It takes about the same amount of The pilot holes need to be drilled first to
    force to strip wood threads as it does to pull locate the thread holes properly. The ma-
    a threaded insert out of its hole. And if you chine screw should slide easily through the
    tap the wood deeper than a threaded insert pilot hole, just as a wood screw should. If
    requires, the wood joint will be stronger. the head configuration calls for it, I would
    Machine screws in an inch of wood threads countersink the pilot holes for the screw
    heads at this point.
    Tooling to cut threads Clamp the piece with the pilot holes to
    for -18 machine screws the piece that receives the threads, and
    transfer the hole locations. I use a transfer
    Pilot hole punch the same size as the pilot hole,
    . drilling the thread holes on the punch
    -in drill bit for pilot hole
    marks. Chamfer the mouth of the thread
    holes about in. greater than the tap di-
    . ameter. If you don't, the tap may tear out
    -in countersink
    the surface grain when you cut the threads.
    I have tried tapping by hand with a
    wrench, but I just can't tap straight. A drill
    Threaded hole press will give you excellent results safely
    -in. transfer punch to locate thread hole every time. Just don't turn on the drill
    press. In fact, unplug the machine before
    starting this procedure.
    Clamp the work firmly, and put the tap
    -in. drill bit for thread hole
    in the chuck. Turn the drive pulley by
    hand while guiding the tap into the thread
    hole with the quill feed. Once you've
    -in. countersink
    started the threads, you can tap the rest by
    hand if you like.
    -18 tap for thread hole Pat Warner is a woodworker and instruc-
    tor at Palomar College in San Marcos, Calif.

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