EJOT India

  During the construction of a building, people become picky about the iron bars they use. They look for answers to questions like which brand of metal sheets are the best quality, and which company offers the best fixers and plasters in the market, but nobody asks which brand of fasteners is the most reliable. It is ironic how the most critical hardware piece that is responsible for holding the whole structure together is often the most neglected among all the other materials.  The world of fasteners is oblivious to most. Fasteners are of different kinds, from nails to screws to bolts to studs. The list is endless. Within this list, there are two types of screws called self tapping screws and self drilling screws. These two screws are usually mistaken for each other. However, some characteristics make them unique.  What Are Self Tapping Screws? Self tapping screws are also called sheet metal screws due to their heavy use in the sheet metal trade. It contains form mating...

  The difference between self-tapping and self-drilling screws is that topic that has confused many people in the past, and the confusion is still going on with many.  These two stainless steel screws are some of the most widely used fasteners at both commercial and domestic levels. Both of these screws can be used in metal building and other kinds of general construction work as well.  Self tapping screws and self-drilling screws these two terms are never interchangeable. However, you can say that the stainless steel self-drilling screw is a subtype of self-tapping metal screws. So, just let us get a bit deeper into the details of both and understand the merits of each type of these two screws. Self-drilling screw If we talk about the technical terms, both types of screws are self-tapping only because they furrow themselves in their threads. And simply because of the difference in the design of the tip of both the screws, self drilling screws differentiate the work be...