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Dizeee
Original Poster
11,893 posts
75 months
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Just bought a small hacksaw and am trying to saw ends of screws. The screws have blank bands around them where they are supposed to be sawed, they are just to attach handles to drawers.
Anyway, having tried to do this on my kitchen chopping board, I cant. The screw just moves and I can't apply any pressure with my finger to keep it steady whilst sawing through. Any ideas?
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rich0411
231 posts
49 months
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Dont use a Hacksaw use a strong set of pliers its what we use all the time at work.
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Dizeee
Original Poster
11,893 posts
75 months
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Just hold it and bend with the pliers?
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wormburner
6,397 posts
122 months
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yup, pliers.
(use eye protection (like eyelids), the end pings off in all directions)
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Dizeee
Original Poster
11,893 posts
75 months
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wormburner
6,397 posts
122 months
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Dizeee said: Just hold it and bend with the pliers? Not bend - pinch. You might need to put one arm of the pliers on the floor and compress it with your bent knee. Or put the whole arrangement in your hip and bend over on it. All sorts of terrible bruising and cutting injuries will occur, but sooner or later you'll show that 2.5mm of cheap tack who's boss.
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Dizeee
Original Poster
11,893 posts
75 months
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Tried this, fail. I am strong enough to do it but the screws just won't play ball. It is only a tiny bit at the end of a small screw anyway and I can't get the leverage to apply enough force. I have already managed to get my wedding ring to cut into my finger whilst attempting this with brute force!
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mgtony
1,471 posts
59 months
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If it's just a tiny bit you need to take off, could you put a couple of washers against the head of the screw inside the drawers? Or hold with pliers and hacksaw the bit off. Don't damage the thread though! 
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wormburner
6,397 posts
122 months
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If it's really only a smidgeon, use a file? Have you got a dremel?
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thinfourth2
23,584 posts
73 months
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I've never heard of screws that need cutting on handles
Post a picture of one
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miniman
16,012 posts
131 months
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They look like this: 
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mgtony
1,471 posts
59 months
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thinfourth2 said: I've never heard of screws that need cutting on handles
Post a picture of one Most likely supplied long enough to go through a regular thickness door but need cutting down for a wardrobe door or drawer front. You get these type bolt/screws with Yale type barrel locks.
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Dizeee
Original Poster
11,893 posts
75 months
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Yup thats the one. I will try using the pliers and hacksaw combo, or failing that more brute force against hip as suggested. Really getting annoyed with these now!
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jas xjr
7,423 posts
108 months
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I have used a pipe cutter in the past for this . The small g clamp type
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mgtony
1,471 posts
59 months
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Could be the perfect excuse to buy a bench grinder.  How many do you have to do? I'm sure I've got a jar full of 30 or 40mm ones at work, they are a strange thread as well.
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Simpo Two
54,243 posts
134 months
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miniman
16,012 posts
131 months
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mgtony said: Could be the perfect excuse to buy a bench grinder. To be honest this is the correct answer. Any man who passes up a tenuous opportunity to buy additional power tools should hang his head in shame.
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Crafty_
4,536 posts
69 months
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screw it in to one of the handles so you can either hold that and try and cut or use the pliers. Obviously don't screw it in too far as you want some thread left so you can unscrew it by hand.
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shimmey69
1,304 posts
47 months
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MTFU!!!!!  Any get a pair or wire cutters and if you can't do in one squeeze rotate and lever side to side!!!
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Mr GrimNasty
2,470 posts
39 months
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Camp the screw between 2 small wooden blocks/scraps of wood, preferably in a vice. Held firmly and thread undamaged.
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