Gadgetory

so I have a friend who was trying to put some of these hooks on a shelf and with the hook she was trying to drill the holes in you can kind of see that she would snap the screws off as she was going into wood and she couldn't screws down farther than that um apparently she didn't know anything about pre drilling the holes before yeah put the screws in so I'm gonna show you the best way to do that so I'm going to show you how to tell which drill bit to use I have to drill bits sitting right here so you can see the screws and the threads of the screws what you want is for the end of the drill bit to just barely cover up the shaft of the screw so you can see the threads on either side of it so you can see when I hold the drill bit over the screw you can still see that the threads on the other side now it'll still rip when it goes into the wood this one would be too big because it covers up all of the threads so there'd be no grip for the screw when it goes in and so I doing that like on some of these harder woods the wood is just so hard in the screws just so weak that it snaps it off you can see like right there at the end of the screw is still in the wood so now that I have my bit chosen out I'll just pre drill all the holes all the way through and then go from there there we go these are drilled all the way through to the other side and then now those are drilled the screws fit in very nicely without a lot of force and they still hold on really well like I'm pulling up on that not going anywhere there we go that's how you screw screws into hard wood you