Quick Tip for Screwing in Screw Eyes
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How many times have you done this? Predrill a hole, grab a screw eye, put a screwdriver through the eye, and start tediously driving the screw eye in? Putting in one tiny screw eye? That’s not a bad solution. Driving large screw eyes, like you’d use on a swing set, or driving lots of screw eyes, and this process gets real old, real fast. Wouldn’t it be great if you could power drive screw eyes the way you power drive screws? If you own a set of Allen wrenches and a cordless drill, the solution for this problem is already in your shop.
Try it, you’ll like it
Once you see this tip, you’ll wonder why you haven’t used this approach before. You’ll be amazed by how fast, and easy, you can drive even the largest screw eyes. It’s a great tip.
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When it comes to putting screw eyes in your work. And this could be a little sign like I've got here. It could be the swing set you're building for somebody and you gotta drive huge screw eyes. One of the things that I puzzled over for a long time was I hate doing this by hand because you can only go so far. So then the next thing is you get a screw driver or something and poke that in there and use it as a big torque wrench to drive it.
Well, if you've got a bunch of these to do or if they're larger screw eyes that can be kind of a pain. So I came up with a solution. And the solution is this little L shaped thing which I think is called and Allen wrench. This goes in your cordless drill. The L part goes in the screw eye and just take it easy on the power here.
How's that for a screw eye hack. Worked pretty good, huh? So next time you got a bunch of screw eyes to run keep Allen wrenches in mind. Its a great way to make it happen.
There is also a driver bit available for any power screwdriver that is "Y" shaped. It does eye hooks, cup hooks and wing nuts.