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When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before. Good easy read though.

• FreeFull 7y ago
  I'm reading it more as "If the only tool everyone has is hammers, everything will be done with nails"
  • aprinsen 7y ago
    Hmm. "When our only tool for understanding principles is hammer-nail metaphors, everything will reduced to terms of hammers and nails."
  • beat 7y ago
    And screws will be refined to lose those hard-to-hammer threads and that unreliable taper.
• stcredzero 7y ago
  Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before Nope. Never. I take "everything" to be an exaggeration for effect. I've only hammered in peg-like or nail-like objects. I will totally admit to pliering in a screw, however.
  • mc32 7y ago
    I do, sometimes, to get them started specially into hard wood (not necessarily hardwood), from there a driver will take over.
    • Stratoscope 7y ago
      Drill a pilot hole of the correct size (as wide as the screw shaft without the threads). You will have a much easier time, and you won't split the wood. https://www.ezwoodshop.com/blog/pilot-hole/perfect-pilot-holes-match-drill-bit-size-woodscrew/ https://www.ezwoodshop.com/blog/pilot-hole/perfect-pilot-hol...
      • mc32 7y ago
        Of course, I meant if you don’t have those things at your disposal at a given time.
        • stcredzero 7y ago
          To start a screw, I've sometimes dug out a divot with the screw or a knife. That way, at least I've removed a little material that might spread apart the grain near the surface.