Screws For Aluminum Boat Floor

Your plywood decking sits on top of these cross members and creates the floor for your boat.

Screws for aluminum boat floor. Screws treated with a high quality coating consisting of zinc and aluminum flakes are especially resistant to corrosion. Boat rivets specialty fasteners. Using tef gel and other preparations will not completely eliminate the problem. Choose from our selection of aluminum socket head screws aluminum phillips flat head screws aluminum hex head screws and more.

A test on teks self drilling screws to determine usefulness in securing my decking to to the boat framing and aluminum seats. As is the case with carbon steel screws a plated stainless steel screw is less likely to corrode aluminum. If you re looking for specialty fasteners or marine rivets you ve come to the right place. In stock and ready to ship.

An example of this is where stainless steel screws and blind rivets are used to install hardware on to the aluminum spars of a sailboat. All pontoon boats use aluminum cross members or stringers to connect the tubes of the pontoon. But sheet metal screws should never be used to fasten hardware to extruded aluminum spars masts booms spinnaker poles and so on because sheet metal screws are designed to be held in place by a single thread and are not meant to cut threads they distort the walls of the hole into a helix.