Workshop Tip - How To Shorten Bolts The Easy Way

[mklotz]

Isn't that why God made hammers?

Bill

No, hammers were made to use for driving screws in. (Don't laugh - there's a significant fraction of the population I could convince of the truth of that.)

[WmRMeyers]

No, hammers were made to use for driving screws in. (Don't laugh - there's a significant fraction of the population I could convince of the truth of that.)

I promise I won't laugh. I've done it. Very limited circumstances, but I have done it. Think of it as a fancier ringed shank nail. That you will never remove. And that absolutely must hold long enough that you can douse the whole thing in gasoline and burn all the evidence.

I did mention that as far as woodworking goes, I'm more of wood butcher, didn't I?

Bill