driftwood screws

screws are tricky... a lot of them is made out of iron.. they rust.. and iron coated with zinc... I hear large amount of zinc is bad...

I glued my driftwood to a rock with gorilla glue.. it works fine.

Home Depot sells stainless steel screws.

Picked up Stainless Steel at the LHS, just remember to drill the pilot holes in the driftwood to reduce the chance for cracking.

Dough![smacks self in face!]
stainless steel, i geuss i overlooked that. i probally have evry size of them in my garage.
yea, pilot holes are a must, i know, especially in acrylic.
thanks guys.

Anyone used brass? I figure the best for underwater use would be brass or stainless.

crazy loaches said:

Anyone used brass? I figure the best for underwater use would be brass or stainless.

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Brass will leach copper out over time.

Ahh yes I forget there is copper in brass. So stainless steel it is.

So, i looked at the trusty HD today, none. my dad said he hasn't got any now, but he'll let me know.

Probably didn't look hard enough... Did you ask someone who worked there?

dufus said:

So, i looked at the trusty HD today, none. my dad said he hasn't got any now, but he'll let me know.

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Look in the speciality fastener drawers. Get the thinnest/longest ones you can find. Silicone it to the base also.....DC

Out of curiosity, wouldn't aluminum work also?

tazcrash69 said:

Out of curiosity, wouldn't aluminum work also?

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I wouldn't use aluminum screws unless the driftwood was balsa. :icon_bigg

sukebe said:

Probably didn't look hard enough... Did you ask someone who worked there?

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nope, i dont really like staff from anywhere but my lfs.i'm not a people's person, but maybe i'll look harder next time.

DiabloCanine said:

Look in the speciality fastener drawers. Get the thinnest/longest ones you can find. Silicone it to the base also.....DC

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Will check next time. i am trying to work around silicone, as i am not goos with it at all.

Check in the deck stuff too. Usually stainless steel is used for decking screws. Just make sure it actually says satinless and not galvanized or coated which would be the other common decking screws.

i checked there, first place i checked actually, but i couldn't read the signs/boxs because there were little kids playing in the screws

actually, i didn't know if they used stainless for decks at first, even though my dad builds decks for a living. But, he builds trex decks, and uses a painted screw in a quickdrive screw driving system.

There is a whole isle of screws hanging on pegs in plastic bags. I don't remember HD selling them in bulk boxes. Besides, how many do you need?

not many, but still, it couldn't hurt to have extra. The only kinds of screws i saw were brass and zinc plated ones.

You have a local Lowes? I cant remember for sure if I got my SS screws from HD or Lowes, but yeah they were available in just about any size and in the same packaging as regular drywall screws just a different color. I got a 5# box since I was doing a lot of outside projects.

yea, plenty of them. i will check next time at both places, thuroughly