Workers Of Wood

Did you know that the humble slotted screwdriver was called a Turnscrew?
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:58 am Did you know that the humble slotted screwdriver was called a Turnscrew?
Herb

Did not...must have been named by someone with dyslexia...shouldn't it have been "screwturner"...?

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:58 am Did you know that the humble slotted screwdriver was called a Turnscrew?
Herb

I thought it was always called the most dangerous tool in the shop...

Nickp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 11:19 am

Did not...must have been named by someone with dyslexia...shouldn't it have been "screwturner"...?

Since the turnscrew cannot turn the screw by itself, then the person or item turning the screw must be the screwturner,i,e. "How many screws could a screwturner screw if a screwturner could turns screws"?
So that leads to the question, does a screwturner must have a turnscrew to turn screws, or is he screwed? The answer is no, as an old carpenter once said screws are to be pounded in and screwed out.
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:09 pm as an old carpenter once said screws are to be pounded in and screwed out.

that is reserved for slotted screws....

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:58 am Did you know that the humble slotted screwdriver was called a Turnscrew?
Herb

Probably from the French word for one. Tourne a vis which literally means turn the screw.

Stick486 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:25 pm

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:09 pm as an old carpenter once said screws are to be pounded in and screwed out.

that is reserved for slotted screws....

We usually just toss those and replace them with Robertsons. Why aggravate yourself on purpose?

So what was that guy doing to Miss Daisy?

HandyDan wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:23 pm So what was that guy doing to Miss Daisy?

Good question. You mean Hokie, he was her chauffeur he was driving her Caddy.

I worked with an old carpenter once that was putting rough posts and beams together. He drove the lag screws in with a small sledge hammer and took a crescent wrench and gave them a quarter turn.
Herb

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:50 pm He drove the lag screws in with a small sledge hammer and took a crescent wrench and gave them a quarter turn.

Bet ya can't do that with drywall screws...

Nickp wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:14 am Bet ya can't do that with drywall screws...

I guess you evidently have never seen Denver Drywall's crews in action...
skip the quarter turn though...
and then there's their trick of using a felt tip to simulate installed screws... the up high ones or where they're hard to install...

I have heard of gearheads,but this is first time I have heard of screwheads.LOL
Herb