For both seasoned professionals and casual DIYers, knowing how to cut screws is a valuable skill that can really come in ...

Stripped screws are annoying (albeit common) issues you might face when working on any DIY project. In fact, not knowing how ...

The screw itself wasn’t too hard to cut, although there were some interesting practical details in the thread profile that we’d never heard of before. The mating nut was another. Rather than ...

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Screw threads are another simple machine, and can be thought of as a long, gently sloped inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder. Cut a long right triangle out of paper, wrap it around a pencil ...