Framing anchors are typically made from sheet metal and have prepunched holes to accept nails. Anchors provide an accurate and positive connection between wood pieces by allowing the nails to secure ...

If you need to be able to repeatedly screw and unscrew fasteners in a hole without stripping, threaded holes with CA or epoxy might be a better solution.

Screws are externally threaded fasteners that can be inserted into pretapped holes ... They otherwise resemble sheet metal screws. Set screws are headless, threaded rod segments that sit flushed with ...

Spend $30 more for these additional “must-have” tools: C-clamp locking pliers (Photo 3) for temporarily clamping steel studs to tracks, and sheet ... and metal stud gauges (the lower the gauge number, ...

By combining prints with screws, nuts, fasteners, and pins ... my last tool for this process is a small square of thin sheet-metal, about 150x150mm (6″x6″). This sheet becomes a “flat ...

At the start of the season for this year’s ANCHOR property benefit, some residents learned their applications would be filed automatically. Others had to file their own applications and go ...

Sheet metal workers ensure you stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer by making, assembling or servicing the heating and cooling equipment in buildings. These tradespeople may specialize ...

Crazy quilts, intricate metal mesh jewelry, and antique oddities mingle at Metal and Thread, a collaboration between artists Denise Carbonell and Derek Dominy. The pair’s affinity for recycled ...

An email program that consolidates messages with the same subject line so they appear together as a continuous "thread" or "chain." Both email client programs and Web-based email offer threaded email.

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. There’s something satisfying about the heft and feel of a metal credit card. Whether it’s the cachet that comes with owning one ...