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Cutting Screw Tips

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  • 09-08-2020 6:39pm
    #1
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭


    Hi.

    I have 5 screws that i need to cut the tips off to leave a flat surface.

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    How do i do this? With an angle grinder? (i don't have one)

    Thanks.

    (PS: A friend suggested putting in the screws again and add some washers)


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    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


    If aesthetics matter at all, angle grinder's pretty much out the window.

    What's the situation?


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    #3
    Roadtoad
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Roadtoad


    Snip with a pliers. Use an unmodified one beforehand, without bursting out.


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,017 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Hacksaw blade would probably do a flush cut OK.


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    #5
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,506 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    take them out and cutthem with grinder .
    you will distroy a snips


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    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,857 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Take them out and use shorter screws.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

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    #7
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    Stigura wrote: »
    If aesthetics matter at all, angle grinder's pretty much out the window.

    What's the situation?

    I'm making a guide rail for a circular saw, so that side (the bottom) needs to be smooth. So it doesn't have to look good.

    I used self tapping screws to go through some aluminium. There was one smaller size available but i thought they may have been too small. Maybe they would have been perfect!

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    It's going thru aluminium and fairly narrow MDF....

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    #8
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Epoxy glue, screwed down till set?


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    #9
    Beltby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 253 ✭✭Beltby


    Take the screw out and use a vice grips or pliers to snap the end off, then put the screw back in.


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