Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: dimwittedmoose51 on September 05, 2011, 11:50:40 AM
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So here's a 6" long wooden-handled tool with a spiral thread on the end of it. Anyone know what it's designed to do? It says Irwin 900 USA on the shaft.
TIA
DM&FS
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According to our Good Buddy "wvtools", it is a screw starter, as he has one for sale on ebay. I had never seen one like it before myself. It must be designed for pre-threading screws in hardwood, or furniture, etc?
Wayne
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a gimlet?
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I have a modern black and yellow handled Stanley just like it, smaller tip though. Just used it yesterday. It is handy for starting a hole if you don't have far to go and you don't want to break out the drill.
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According to our Good Buddy "wvtools", it is a screw starter, as he has one for sale on ebay. I had never seen one like it before myself. It must be designed for pre-threading screws in hardwood, or furniture, etc?
Wayne
Not a screw starter. It drills a conical hole for inserting a wood cone so that a screw can hold in an enlarged hole. Plugs the hole.
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Not a screw starter. It drills a conical hole for inserting a wood cone so that a screw can hold in an enlarged hole. Plugs the hole.
So If I read you correct, you are saying this if for repairing an enlarged, or stripped out screw hole in a door Jam hinge hole, or other wood material Correct?
Wayne
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Not a screw starter. It drills a conical hole for inserting a wood cone so that a screw can hold in an enlarged hole. Plugs the hole.
So If I read you correct, you are saying this if for repairing an enlarged, or stripped out screw hole in a door Jam hinge hole, or other wood material Correct?
Wayne
Exactly. I saw them advertiser, oh, maybe 20 years ago. Thought it was a neat idea, but never got around to getting one. They came with the conical plugs to insert.
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Not a screw starter. It drills a conical hole for inserting a wood cone so that a screw can hold in an enlarged hole. Plugs the hole.
So If I read you correct, you are saying this if for repairing an enlarged, or stripped out screw hole in a door Jam hinge hole, or other wood material Correct?
Wayne
I always use wooden matchsticks to tighten up the screw hole, too cheap to buy a fancy tool for that simple job, yes I have hillbilly tendencies. Might be thee reason they never caught on to well.
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Not a screw starter. It drills a conical hole for inserting a wood cone so that a screw can hold in an enlarged hole. Plugs the hole.
I always use wooden matchsticks to tighten up the screw hole, too cheap to buy a fancy tool for that simple job, yes I have hillbilly tendencies. Might be thee reason they never caught on to well..
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Me, I use toothpicks. Maybe between the two of us we sent the company into oblivion.
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Me, I use toothpicks. Maybe between the two of us we sent the company into oblivion.
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I would like to take credit with you for doing that but I think common sense killed that tool idea.
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Toothpicks, match sticks, golf tees depending on the size needed works for me.
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Hadn't thought of golf tees. Now I will! Thanks.
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Hadn't thought of golf tees. Now I will! Thanks.
And if those don't get the job done, I whip out my Tuboencabulator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o
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Tuboencabulator
I remember that from somewhere.
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Weed wacker string works best in my opinion because it gives put also pushes back, wont go away either eventually.
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I love all the different methods mentioned, so far. I used a drilled, glued, and hammered in dowel, but never thought to use a golf tee, toothpicks, or weedwacker string! All great tips! If you ever have this happen on a steel door frame, and you cannot go any larger on a screw size, try a rivnut!
Wayne
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Thanks for the info on the Irwin 900. I just got one in a bucket of old tools and wasted my time checking out the Irwin site before coming back to old friends.
Dave Freeman
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I have always gone with matchsticks and white glue on big stuff and toothpicks on smaller stuff.
Have even used a tiny sliver triangle of paper on those tiny screws that hold the plate on a Stanley (or other) level.
But the weedeater line sounds handy. And I have about six miles of the stuff in the garage.
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I guess I have been doing it the hard way to fix stripped holes in wood. I drill the hole larger and glue in a wood dowel and cut it flush with the surface. I then re-drill a pilot hole. I use to repair gun stocks where someone broke off a butt plate screw in the stock. I used a homemade hollow drill bit made from a piece of tubing with teeth filed on it and drilled around the screw and glued in a dowel and re-drilled a pilot hole. A little wax on the screws to made them easier to screw in.
EvilDr235
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I have used one as a screw starter for over 50 years, thanks for all the info, but I will continue to use it as a screw starter. :grin:
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"Weed wacker string"
Is that the round, square, faceted, or ??
just kidding...i always used matchsticks or toothpicks, too. :grin:
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I've owned one of those "screw starters," which is how I'd seen them marketed, but was not impressed.
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I was assuming it was a total waste of time contacting Irwin but they did respond less than 24 hours with their answer; it is a "Twist Gimlet Drill"
Dave
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Here we go again -- nobody believes me anymore. From page 21 of the 1974 Irwin Catalog:
No. 900 Irwin Screw Starter -- marks the hole, starts the hole, threads the hole for the screw to enter.
Handiest Hand Tool in Years
Just the right tool for the housewife, handyman, craftsman, school and farm workshops. Wherever used . . . the Irwin Screw Starter makes it much easier to install screws in wood and non-metal materials.
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Thats what I've always known them as WV. In my eyes you'd be hard pressed to call that a gimlet