Putting screws in pegboard. How?

Question

Holes are 3/4 inch apart. 1000 go in a board 1 1/2 X 2 feet. I do a 100 boards a year. I'm putting them in one at a time. Takes 40 minutes. Then the heads get painted.
People have been doing this for 150 years. Somebody's figured a trick that makes it go much faster.

Answer 1

Sorry, the trick is to redesign your work procedure.
You need more bodys there to make it go faster.(only way)

Use shorter screws to help cut back in time. Yeah there is only adding more people to speed this process up.

Answer 2

I've been around for a long time, but this is a new one on me. What's the point? The purpose? I guess what confuses me more is that you state it's pegboard which has pre drilled holes in it. In a typicla 4 x 8 sheet of it I get it that there are a lot of holes, though I never counted them, and I'm having a hard time visualizing as many as 1000 holes in a piece that size?

I'm curious. I hope you'll share

Steven Wolf

At 3/4 inches apart I calculate 24 holes, and that might be reduded by two since I calculated the total 18 inch width. At the 24 inch length the number of holes would be 32 minus two perhaps. Given that my calculater seems to function properly my answer is 786 holes.

Answer 3

Look into purchasing a real screw gun. These things quickly self load the screw to be installed and a clutch slips when the proper tightness is reached (torque), then the next screw is loaded for installation. The quickness here is that you don't have to align the screws by hand and hold them in place while you start the screws.

Another method would be to purchase a commercial gang machine. These things can drive multiple screws at the same time. They can also be fitted with automatic loaders to load the screws, and each can usually be spaced independently.

If you can afford it and you really want production, link a computer to a CNC machine and program it to do what you want. This can be expensive to run only one screw machine so to get really great production (several hundred an hour) link as many machines as the computer can handle. Add a couple of robots to do the handling and you could take over as the world's supplier of whatever the gadgets you are assembling.