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@@Timothy-NH I'm so very sorry my friend. My Dad is with GOD and JESUS too. I love and miss him everyday. He was such a Awesome man, always there for me and our family. He taught me so many much about life and how do things right. My prayers to GOD and JESUS are with your Dad, you and your family. 😢💖
I can remember my Grandfather's hammer. It was old with a thick wooden handle. He had a hole drilled into the end of it that he kept packed with beeswax. He always dipped the nails before driving them home when working with hardwoods. He also had Honey Bees, so the wax was always available. He used it for wooden drawer slides too.
Good evening sir. Yes, I knew about this tip. My father taught me this. I don’t use it very often because I am only driving one or two screws. Thank you for the reminder. Enjoy your evening. God bless you.
Never used soap but was taught as an apprentice 40years ago to use bees wax or a candle. For many years I carried a small tin of wax with me. Used on hardwood or when using brass screws. Now my go to is a quick squirt of silicone spray. I see some guys add a spot of clear silicone and that works too.
My grandfather did the soap thing with wood screws he drove by hand because nobody used power tools for screws back then. They used a flat screwdriver, a Yankee screwdriver or a flat screwdriver bit in a bit brace. Soap made them easier to drive. I have done that my whole life and I just turned 68 years old. It works. Pro tip, if you have a moist bar of soap it sticks in the threads better than a dry bar.
Thanks for resurrecting this trick Vince, there are a bunch of young DIY'ers that don't necessarily believe what an old codger like me tells them. But being presented by you on RU-vid sometimes makes it a reality for them. On a side note my Dad also used a bar of soap to quiet new V- belts that would squeal until they broke in. Keep bringing the great information and tips to the new generation and us old buzzards it is appreciated.
Plus, don't forget that if you "cut one" in your clients house, just scrape the bar a little, I bet it could make a quick and convenient air freshener =-)
i use it for a lot more than that. lots of old style cabinets and dressers around that dont have metal guide rails, soap lets the drawers slide better. and doors that are tight, but not tight enough to take down and plane can be "lubed" by rubbign a bar of soap on them. very useful item.
My grandfather was a finish carpenter & built the seats on the "red cars" in Los Angeles. He taught me that one. I have a friend that was a machinist before being a wrench bender. his recommendation for bolts that were rusted was to heat them with a torch & then melting some wax on them. He said the wax would work it's way along the threads & help to loosen them.
I've kept a bar of Irish Spring in my tool bags for years. Something I learned from my grandfather a LONG time ago. Thanks for sharing this tip Vince!!!
I like proving the validity of the tip. I've known about it for a while but I don't remember where I first heard of it. I like the scientific approach you took to prove it works.
soap can also stain wood,prevent glue trom sticking if you want to plug the hole and it draws moisture.I have used parafin for many years (candle or canning wax)
I use beeswax. Same exact way, also it's a base in a lot of my finishes. Plus it's good for your hands. The soap will dry out your hands more if you don't wash it off soon
I worked in a factory and we often had to drive screws into metal housings and we had an in-house screw prep area where our screws were dipped in melted paraffin wax. They had what looked like a small deep fryer they used to melt the wax. It was a pain in the neck to break the screws apart when the wax dried but we never had a screw bind.
I worked in a patternshop many years ago, and we used predrilled pilot hole and a block of canning paraffin to set 5 and 6" screws. This was in mahogany(old growth) and hard maple, and poplar by the tonnes.
My grandfather would use bar soap. My dad strayed and used WD-40, it caused a light-hearted, entertaining rift in our family (we still had plenty of enjoyable holiday dinners together).
Well now that was a interesting and informative video. Yes I did know about soap but I've never used it on smaller regular screws like being used in this video I mostly used soap on lag screws that I was trying to tighten down and when doing that I always use something like liquid Dawn dishwashing soap. A difference was always amazing after drilling a starter hole I would take something like a 3/8 lag screw and apply the liquid soap to the threads and the difference was immense.
Welcome to 8th grade shop class, circa 1974. My shop teacher taught us about soap but he preferred candle wax. Regular candlestick (really about 1/2 of a candlestick) in an apron pocket made life easier. Please remember, this was back when you had to drive screws by hand unless you were rich and had one of those highfalutin yankee screwdrivers.
Grandpa always had a bar of soap, a block of canning paraffin and candles around the workshop and in his tote just for screws and the bottom of his plane.
I've done it for decades. I may have learned it back in the 70s on a TV show I watched when I was a kid called Wally's Workshop. He and his wife did DIY repairs. I learned what a knee kicker was to. One of the show's sponsors was Trade-A-Blade. Yeah I'm getting old🤣🤣
My dad, I remember getting the screw's ready with soap and handing them to him as he worked. I remember using a bar of lux or a bar of zest. Good times, miss you dad.
Hiya; Knew this a long time but seldom use it. (I am 66.) Long screws, or hard material, then its a good tip. Most of the time I don't need it. But when needed it is great. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
So about 20 years ago while working for a plumber friend of mine I was using 3" drywall screws to mount 2"×4"s to the wall in order to mount a gas pipe manifod(new construction) The screws were getting hot and camming out. I was In the shop loading material for the day and I saw toilet bowl wax seal for setting the toilet. It was in a plastic tray to keep clean.i grabbed a handful of 3" screws and stuck them into the soft wax and when needed to mount that 2"×4" again I pulled a screw from the wax seal and it went in like butter. Still use that technique to this day. Oh btw, one of those wax seals costs about $2 and it's good for probably a box of screws, maybe more.
CRLawrence screw wax ... a must have for tool box. I have tried soap (better than nothing) but Screw Wax is FAR superior to soap and an absolute MUST when drilling or fastening aluminum where so easy for screws to gawl/snap without it. CRLawrence wax comes in a tube -- I like to cut it to length of screws, push fasteners in and pull them out of the wax as I go. Most efficient method I've found so far!
I’ve been using the soap trick since I was a, “younger man”. Dad, and even my grandpa always had a bar in his box. Or a candle sometimes. But that was mostly for sticking dresser drawers and whatnot.
Ok but seriously, I need to put a screw "longways"/deep into a rounded narrow board. Any suggestions on how to keep the screw going straight when you are *not* screwing into a flat surface?
An hour and a half to tell me to use soap. I already knew that but I watched just in case I missed something. Anyhow, good vid for those who didn’t know. On another note, you remind me of Billy Mays, one of the most successful, and obnoxious infomercial personalities ever. I do like your vids though, and I always listen to your advice. Thank you… Thank you… Thank you 😃🙏🏻😌
I've used soap, paraffin, toilet rings, and even wiped them on the side of my nose. My Grandfather, who was a finish carpenter drilled a 3/8 hole in the handle of the small hammer he used for finish nails and packed it with beeswax.
My father taught me this trick in the 70's when I asked why he had a bar in his tool box. He told me and to this day I have one in my tool box. Thanks Dad.
My dad had beeswax and bar of soap. When he remodeling wood or build things. If he didn't have them he used Vaseline. Also at my old job few guys had beeswax in their pack out. I also missed my dad, four years up in heaven.
Reducing friction works both ways. If you are counting on the screws to max out, this will hurt you. But I like the idea for things that are meant to be removable.
@VCGConstruction Yep my dad (born 1931) showed me the bar soap hack as a child when showing me how to drive screws with a brace and bit. His dad (born 1908) said his dad used candle wax. Good ole school info.
Bo I haven't been using soap. I knew to per drill though boss sometimes want me to not pre-drill when the temperature is 90+ outside when removing the screw might be 120 degree if your gloves are missing hot screw.