Stainless Steel Screw Standards
I purchased a large quantity of #8 stainless steel screws from BOLT DEPOT, to replace screws in my 14 year old 5th wheel. Most of the original screws had severe rust problems. Even screws that were c...
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Don't expect stainless sheet metal screws to thread their way through steel of any thickness. They're simply not as strong as steel screws. Make sure you get the right size (are you perhaps replacing #6 with #8?), and when installing them, use a hand screwdriver and go CCW until you feel the "click" where the screw drops into thread, and only then go forward so you're following the existing threads and not trying to create new ones.
