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Originally Posted by N3LYT
Many many years ago I was making a wooden "Z" door with slotted screws a carpenter friend was watching and he said that's not the way to do that, "OK show me" he walked over and pounded them in with a hammer! Doors still up. Now that is the way to drive slotted screws.
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Likewise many years ago when my parents were building a new house my father hired a carpenter to help with the building. That old guy set every screw with a hammer. He told me the slot was there to take the screw out not put it in.