Wood Screws.

[Pablo68]

You!!! YES YOU! I'm watching you.

No! noooo! No! No! (in various innotations)

Don't. I know it's all you have. Be patient. Wait till you get some proper hardware in.







And trim up your darn sprue tags!!!

[markbt73]

Fifty-year-old me hears you.

Fourteen-year-old me wants to run his Grasshopper NOW, and can't get anyone to take him to the hobby shop for a new chassis tub, and doesn't have twenty bucks for a replacement anyway, and Dad's got those jars of screws in the garage...

[Willy iine]

@Pablo68 So who are you addressing this thread at?  

When I was a kid I was very poor and used anything that was made available to me.  I didn't know what a wood screw was either compared to other tapping screws.  It if worked, it worked.  If my buddies wanted to give me a few screws, that was also okay.

Its really from these scraping bottom projects that educated me to make stuff including garage accessories..

[Pablo68]

8 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

@Pablo68 So who are you addressing this thread at?  

When I was a kid I was very poor and used anything that was made available to me.  I didn't know what a wood screw was either compared to other tapping screws.  It if worked, it worked.  If my buddies wanted to give me a few screws, that was also okay.

Its really from these scraping bottom projects that educated me to make stuff including garage accessories..

Very nice.
 

Ok, Mea Maxima Culpa: I certainly did adapt a few things lying around to keep my Hornet going back in the day. Not wood screws though. Of all thing the wood screws in question came out of my sons Xmaxx (I bought it 2nd hand).

[Willy iine]

7 minutes ago, Pablo68 said:

Very nice.
 

Ok, Mea Maxima Culpa: I certainly did adapt a few things lying around to keep my Hornet going back in the day. Not wood screws though. Of all thing the wood screws in question came out of my sons Xmaxx (I bought it 2nd hand).

Thanks.     Oh I see..    yeah, wood screws is not ideal.

 

Early on in my M38 restore days, I bought a vintage used (and beat up) M38 and it came with regular slotted head machine screws for some parts of the car.    I initially thought the previous owner(s) went to some hardware store or hobby shop to find generic screws in the same sizes to repair the car.  Turned out, Tamiya included those screws in their initial releases.  Very weird.  

[El Gecko]

I don't see the harm if the hole is totally stripped out and the only type of fastener that would now provide sufficient holding force is a wood screw.

Yes, I am guilty of bodging, kludging, mangling, or sometimes even outright destroying things in order to make them work again.

You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs!

[Pablo68]

6 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

Thanks.     Oh I see..    yeah, wood screws is not ideal.

 

Early on in my M38 restore days, I bought a vintage used (and beat up) M38 and it came with regular slotted head machine screws for some parts of the car.    I initially thought the previous owner(s) went to some hardware store or hobby shop to find generic screws in the same sizes to repair the car.  Turned out, Tamiya included those screws in their initial releases.  Very weird.  

Wow, well I'll be.

I'll have to have a closer look at my Willy....

There has to be a better way to phrase that.

[KEV THE REV]

I have to say that I've bought a lot of used HB / SR parts including front trail arms / chassis tub casualty corners / scratch and dent if you will  , and a good percentage of these have been drilled through the pivot point and wood screws used to attach them to the chassis - surely the devils work