MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Living in salt air, I use stainless fasteners for electrical and wood. The definition of misery is to use a phillips type stainless steel fastener. Even extremely expensive 316 grade is no match for a hardware store grade 2 screw when it comes to strength and ability to defend against damaging the cross. But Robertson screws can tolerate tightness all the way up to snapping off the threads (Canadian word coming) whilst surviving high driving forces in the head.
I have a few headless Stainless in my RV. they were TOREX however
Some of them.. Well there is a story as to why I had to replace an engine (It was a case of MURDER, not a natural death).. Well there are now two blocks of wood, held in place with Stainless Torex, that should the thing that currently just sit there. Doing nothing but get inspected from time to time.
But should the incident that Killed engine #1 ever happen againk those blocks of wood will spring into action and prevent a disaster.
