Screw damage

Is this screw trash or is there hope of fixing it?

It's a 22cm omega pacific.

trash

I'd send it to a screw sharpening service that puts a completely new geometry on the screw. That's a lot of work for a file.

What did you do, send it through the garbage disposal?

Not trash. Just needs to be sharpened. You have to remove enough material until you get back into virgin metal. If you have a keen eye, good vise and sharp file this isn't hard nor overly time consuming. However, a screw sharpening service (anicescrew.com is east coast) will also bring it back.

Trash, you bent two of the teeth inward, so fixing means grinding down into new teeth.

Send an email to the following. They may be able to help.

icescrewsharpening.com/

anicescrew.com

Along with others, I highly recommend Jason at anicescrew.com, he is an excellent craftsmen and jeweler and has done terrific work on many people's screws in the Northeast. He could cut it back and reshape entirely new points, and the screw would be as good as new. Do it.

Definitely not trash. I use the following technique to sharpen my own and it yields great results. A wood block, C-clamps, and a set of jewelry files is all I use. They bite like new when I'm done - even ones in the same condition as yours. Here's a link on the technique:

http://www.adventure-science.com/files/Ice%20Screw%20Sharpening%20Procedure.pdf

If you do decide to trash it, send it to me, I'll give it a new life.

Ahh...merely a flesh wound.

Get a couple of those round and/or flat files folks use to sharpen chains on chainsaws. Take the burrs off. Sharpen the edges. Keep the original geometry in mind. Good to go.

Dobson wrote:I'd send it to a screw sharpening service that puts a completely new geometry on the screw. That's a lot of work for a file. What did you do, send it through the garbage disposal?

I'm happy to recycle your screw. I'll pay shipping + $10 for it. PM if interested.

Disposable nation...sigh.

Crack open a beer and grab a file. Or leave it like that and throw it on the rack the next time your partner leads!

Totally fixable screw.
Send it over this spring for some new teeth.

icescrewsharpening.com/

start with the needle-nose.

EugeneK wrote:Is this screw trash or is there hope of fixing it? It's a 22cm omega pacific.

Jeff J wrote: It will take some patients but with a 22cm there is a lot of screw left to work with