"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote in message
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| Awl--
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| One of the follies I'm building req's fastening to a door buck/jamb.
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| The real bummer are these metal bucks filled w/ concrete!!! Goodgawd....
| I've seen something called TapCon screws which can sposedly thread into a
| pilot hole drilled in concrete. Anyone familiar w/ these? I hope I can
| find them as small as #10 or even #8.
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| Iny ideas, leads, sources would be much appreciated.
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| Mr. P.V.'d
| formerly Droll Troll

I was just thinking about how f'd you'd be if you stripped out the
threads in a metal door jam and couldn't easily fix it. With concrete in
it, I'd have to give the chances of long term success much better odds.
Tapcons will do a good job, but my experience is a bit limited. It
won't do well on concrete that's really old. The fresher the better. They
come with a hex head with built in washer, and you had better have a good
driver socket for it, as it will have to take a beating. I recently
discovered stainless ones, but they're a lot softer than the blue ones.