you guys underestimate piffin screws
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today i’m cleaning out a building that was a winshield shop. along 1 wall was two racks built 10′ tall with dowels every 3 inches to stack winshields on. holds about 25 pcs of glass in each rack.
so i get up to see what it will take to get them down,4 -3″ drywall screws per rack! just figuring each ws at 40lbs =1000lbs and the racks weigh probably another 300lbs ,all hanging from 4 drywall screws.
my next kitchen cabs i’m going to install with 2 drywall screws and hope 1 hits a stud! lol
piffin screws rock!!! larry
hand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
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did I ever tell you the history of the Piffen screw factory?
i just read the story the other day in a post.makes me proud to use a product with such a long line of pride of workmanship and quality. next time i have to pull the motor in my truck,i'm just going to grap a couple piffs and screw them into the ceiling and jerk that sucker out of there.so many uses and so few screws. larryhand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
Please excuse me, but
just wtf IS a piffen screw?
I'm embarrassed to ask, having heard so much about them, but, I'm in the dark.
Sheetrock screws....long disdained for any use other than hanging sheetrock by most posters here, but especially Piffin, hence the nickname.
So, let me get this staight, Piffen dosen't like sheetrock scews, so we call them Piffen screws? Or we only call them Piffen screws when NOT used to hang board?
Well, this has been going on for so long, they're always called Piffin screws now. The word Piffin has even become a verb when used in any connotation where one might use the word screw or any of its synonymns.
One poster even wrote a novellete about the origin of the Piffin screw factory and its assorted family members. :-)
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at first I thought "Piffin screws" was the noun; but now you say "Piffin" is the verb that modifies the noun "screws". very strange.
by the way, why is "synonym" the only word for which there is no synonym?
How many different words do you need for "The word you use when you don't know how to spell the word you wanted to use"?
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Wait'll you find out all the stuff that's called "karp" around here.
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What da ya mean "Karp stuff?" I'm not gettin' Piffened up a** am I?
close...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Bend over, let's see how the screw fits ...hey larry, hand me one of your good three inch screws there...
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Actually, I like SR screws just fine - for sheetrock. They are not strong enough fo ranything else. Larry got lucky and found some black coated wood screws that looked like SR screws.I also don't use my chisle to open paint cans, or a pliers to drive a nail, nor do I use my hammmer to drive a screw. I don't wear my sunday best on the job and I don't use finish nails for exterior trim.Simply, I just use the right thing for the job at hand.So your butt is safe.;)
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Piffen screws are not made in twainn, its one of the last good ol american made screw, you know the slogan, its on CNN every morning. "If Piffen cant screw you, nobody can" good old american no how, imported from the old country,
<<So your butt is safe...>>I wouldn't doubt that his butt is unhinged about now.
Found this label on an old box...
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I'll vouch for their usefulness in bridge construction.
zak the hack
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"so it goes"
ROAR!!!!!SamT
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roflmao. thats friggin cool,if you make some tshirts up i'll buy one. larryhand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
Your taking orders?
Can I place an order for two Large T-Shirts?
See the thread in the classifed section ;)PaulB
Paul, LMAO!
excellent! 2 shirts for me please! (XL)
Geoff
2 ea 2XLT...
and that's with pocket...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Ah, a pocket screw man!
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
yup....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
and 1 for Oreo, no pockets._______________________________________________________________CITUIS, ALTUIS, FORTUIS
You angling for a pieced nipple?Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
Parenting has always been a mix of sage life advice and inexcusable laziness.
annling I can get into...but pieced nipple??? how's that???Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Try this:
1. Get a t-shirt with a pocket on the chest.
2. Fill said pocket with "Piffin Screws"
3. Go about your normal day... at some point, something heavy will brush against your chest, resulting in the perforated nipple.
It works just as well with jeans. :(Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
Parenting has always been a mix of sage life advice and inexcusable laziness.
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Geoff, shoot me a PM per the thread in classifieds, OK?PaulB
Hilarious. Oracle brand....hahahaha. One T for me...please. 2XL
HVC...shoot me a PM per the thread in classifieds, OK?
ThanksPaulB
Did that earlier, but I'll try it again, thanks.
Seriously, those would be huge sellers at the next fest
See the classified section thread ;)PaulB
Ya know, its kinda odd, I post a few responces here and there, tile, framing, what have you. Sometimes don't get a reply, no big deal, virtue is its own reward. I ask a mundane question about B.T. "lingo" , specifically the much disscussed "Piffen" screw, I'm inundated with responces, with the topic becoming my BUTT.
Clearly, we're having way too much fun here. :)
p.s. I have used a chisel to open a paint can, take off baseboard and scrape off glue. But it wasn't my GOOD chisel. ( which stays the good chisel until I get stuck, and do something bad with it, then I buy a new GOOD chisel,........its complicated)
"Clearly, we're having way too much fun here. :)
Such banter is called a "karpfest."
"Karpfest"
Is that official? If it is, I'm honoured,......I think.
Anyway, when the "karpfest" dies down, I'd be interested in your energy effiecient house. I'm still a few years away, but plan a similar project. I'll be building on Lake Champlain, right at the Canada-U.S. border. Similar weather, so perhaps I could incorporate some of your details. My basic idea is 1 1/2 story, 1600 square'. Heat is the big question. Fuel options, propane, oil, electric and wood. Solar is interesting, but up-front cost will be an issue. In -slab radiant is also attractive.
I'm just kicking around ideas at this point, so anything you can add would be great.
Karp,
Look carefully at ICF's and SIP's for the roof. Tremendous energy savings potential over any sort of stick built house and if you can put together leggos you can build with ICF's
Right now the builders are offering ICF's for a 2% premium over traditonal stick building but they quietly admit that that 2% is pure profit..
you picked a topic if anything it is it isn't mundane...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
and it isn't possible to have too much fun...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
And I thought when you screwed up your good chisel then your screwdriver becomes your chisel.....
No,no,no,, if you had the screwdriver handy, you would have used that INSTEAD of the chisel. Check "alternate tools, sec. 11-416B " and follow the proper MOP. It goes, glazing bar, screwdriver, chisel. Another example, hammer, 5lb. sledge, linemans pliers, rock.
As I said, its complicated.
Mugsy's right. Piffin screws they shall be, forevermore. Sort of like Bandaids, Kleenex, etc. No longer just a thing.
Greg
so next time you go to a big box store tell the guy you need a box of piffin screw,perferably coarse thread. it will be fun. larryhand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.