The Most CINEMATIC Film Ever Made About SCREWS
Published March 18, 2024 · 10:50 · 105,964 views
About This Video
A Patreon commenter suggested Van make a video about screws. He had spent over a month making the new Fourth Turning videos. The first comment said: screws. So here goes. Van rarely uses nails because screws are better for two reasons. One: tighter connection. Two: you can take the thing apart.
Over 99% of his screws are tapping screws, the pointy kind that dig their own hole. Over 99% are Phillips head. Flathead screws are banned. Almost all are sheet metal screws, used mostly for wood. His sheet metal screw knowledge came from Tom Sachs. The video harvests a cold shoe from a GoPro 8 to make a monitor mount, and the process requires screws, which gives Van ten minutes to deliver a lecture on fastener philosophy with the cinematographic ambition the title promises. Whether it is the most cinematic film ever made about screws is debatable. It is certainly a contender. I love this video.
Transcript
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better help it took me well over a month to make the new fourth turning videos but the first comment on the
patreon said you should make a video about screws I want to harvest the cold shoe from this GoPro 8 thing to make a
monitor mount and that will require screws so here goes I rarely use Nails because screws are better for at least two reasons one
you can get a tighter connection with a screw than with the nail and two you can take the thing apart if it's
assembled with [Music] screws here are the screws that concern my shop over 99% of my screws are tapping
screws the pointy kind that can dig its own hole over 99% of my screws are Philips head I do have one box of hex head that
I used for roofing Flathead screws are banned Phillips Harry almost all of my screws are sheet metal screws I mostly
use them for wood but they're called sheet metal screws designed for joining sheet metal my sheet metal screw knowledge
came from Tom Sachs but the Wikipedia of screw information is the McMaster car catalog they don't pay me but it's true they'll
tell you everything I'm no expert I'm a hobbyist McMaster Car my favorite Tom Sachs catalog is designed after the McMaster
Car catalog we just call it McMaster I prefer sheet metal screws because the sizing is straightforward
and easy to remember the smallest sheet metal screws that I use are number two yay big the largest sheet metal screws in
the shop are number 14s yay big though I cannot find a single instance of number 14 use anywhere around the house Studio or shop
we used number 14s in nuts to join the track to the pipe flanges but that was a long time ago that's all
the most common screws I use are probably number eights or number 10s now the number number two number 14 number 8 refers to
the shaft and head diameters but the numbers don't correlate to anything as far as I can tell a number two is 86 in
in diameter but who cares a number two is a number two tiny diameter a number 14 is big big diameter length I use Imperial length sheet metal
screws inches as opposed to metric length screws millimet woodworking I do in inches mechanic stuff I do in
metric Tom Sachs once told me that imperial measurement yields more harmonious proportions than does metric
measurement my sheet metal screws I stock in 1/2 in lengths to 1 and 1/2 in lengths in most diameters I generally
stock screws in 1/4 in length intervals 1/ in 3/4 in 1 in 1 and 1/4 in and 1 and 1/2 in I use two head types
Flathead and round head AKA pan head so when buying sheet metal screws I ask for or look for two numbers and the head
type number six 3/4 in pan head or what have you beware that Phillips screws come in three major sizes requiring
three sizes of screwdrivers little guys use a number one bit screwdriver medium that is most screws use a number two screwdriver and
big screws use a number three screwdriver two big don't fit two small will strip most people don't know this
generally speaking plywood does not need to be pilot drilled to prevent splitting generally speaking every other kind of
board does there are two types of pilot holes we drill depending upon the application we pre-drill a pilot hole
when we want our screw to tightly grip or tap our wood to hang a hook for instance we clear drill a pilot hole when we want
the threads of our screw to spin freely in the pilot hole when we want to join wood to wood or metal to Wood the steel
in the case of this Hook is clear drilled the wood here is pre-drilled [Music] for form's sake we counter sync when
using Flathead screws I use two types of counter syncs this type which does not drill a pilot hole and this type which does drill a
pilot hole generally a clear drilled pilot let's make that monitor mount I'm going to harvest this cold shoe from a
GoPro 8 media mod which I've never used and will never use it was a hand me- down I'll leave the cold shoe on the
media mod while I drill it so I can clamp the cold shoe more easily than if I removed it before Drilling
I use a center punch to Dent the steel so the counter sync bit won't skate [Music] out use oil whenever drilling through
steel of [Music] course this should be the correct diameter to count sync my half inch number twos [Music]
now I clear drilled the [Music] steel Mark the 2x two with a pencil I center punch the wood but Pros probably
[Music] don't pre-drill for my number tw's probably Overkill but I'm going for precision here screw it down flush and
[Music] smooth thank you atomos for sending me the monitor they don't pay me and thank you Alexander palasio for the idea for
this video and Alexander does pay me on my patreon on this week's patreon only video let begets creativity it's the
inner child who finds the spirit to make the videos that provide the livelihood to make the videos but you got to grow up before you can keep the inner child and protect the inner child [Music]
Products & Tools Mentioned
- BetterHelp essential — sponsor, online therapy platform
- McMaster-Carr recommends — catalog, 'Wikipedia of screw information'
- GoPro 8 Media Mod uses — harvested cold shoe from it
- Atomos uses — monitor brand, sent free monitor
- sheet metal screws essential — primary screw type used
People Referenced
Tom Sachs, Alexander Palacios