trailer screw from hell

guywhofishes

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I'd like to save someone a trip all over town to find a driver for this screw

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you're not going to find them at Home Depot, Mills Fleet, Northern tool, blah blah blah
;:;banghead

maybe NAPA or automotive or trailer place? at that point I gave up. I would have called around - but questions about anything past store hours seems to confuse anyone who works at these stores

Anywho... it's called a double-square and they're designed to quickly register in a #2 square drive so the manufacturer can net $15 more profit on the installation of the 2000 screws used to put the paneling on the walls

the problem is that later on - you're removing them and you have a >50% chance of stripping them unless you use a spanky new square drive with keen edges - IF you've even figured out the square drive approach

I just ordered some rare-to-find double-square driver bits from Amazon (next day free)

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if I saved someone else from a two hour %$#@#$$%$ trip around their town it was worth this post
 


Davey Crockett

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This explains why i've been looking for the "special size" torx bit that didn't come in any of my sets. I was going to check with Vistos next time I get close.
 

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Dont feel bad guy. I went through this about 6-7 years ago. Drove around town looking for that bit. It was like I was speaking pig latin when I asked people. Never did figure out the name of the bit but did find out that a #2 square works.
 

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A quality square drive works fine. I've installed and pulled thousands of those. Powder coated ones can be trickier but plain zinc plated and a good square works fine.
 


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A quality square drive works fine. I've installed and pulled thousands of those. Powder coated ones can be trickier but plain zinc plated and a good square works fine.

I stripped one under the trailer (light wiring strain connector) with a new #2 - not going to take any chances - stripped screws really get me lit up :mad:

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I'm toying seriously with insulating a car-hauler and don't want to think twice while removing those countless 100s of screws
 

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I spent a month looking for that bit only to have the dealer tell me they are intended for use with a square bit. My fender screws strip often on both campers. I reach under with a plastic drywall anchor and screw through the fender skirt into that. None of those have come loose again for years.
 

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Somewhere an engineer is reading this thread and doesn’t know what the problem is.
 


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Out of curiosity I opened this thread expecting to see a ugly woman with a few kids with shitty diapers on sitting on a redwood deck attached to a sixties trailer. I am relieved I was wrong.
 

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Somewhere an engineer is reading this thread and doesn’t know what the problem is.

I fear it’s worse than that..........they think we’re the idiots.

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Out of curiosity I opened this thread expecting to see a ugly woman with a few kids with shitty diapers on sitting on a redwood deck attached to a sixties trailer. I am relieved I was wrong.

That’s why you’re that guy, because you’re always wrong.
 

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I remember when I was HS age and we had to change cultivator shovels every so often. With a wrench and no power tools back then. Sometimes the bolt would be wore to bad and the wrench wouldn't grab it. Go get a chisel and hammer and hope you broke the bolt before you broke too many knuckles. has anyone thought of using a chisel and just break them off and then use a standard screw? Perhaps the wife won't notice a little notch or two where the chisel went too deep.By the way, if engineers had to fix things, designed would change drastically.
 

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