Why no SS screws on an Intelliframe

[JEDI]

Whats that saying - The Whole is only as good as the sum of its parts - or something like that.

So I have this beautiful all ULE mag, gloss black, light as a feather.... and a nice RUSTY GRIP FRAME SCREW. Whats the deal? I've owned the mag for a week. Its barely seen the light of day. Why doesn't such an awesome grip frame come with SS screws? Seems kind of cheap.

Lemme guess... the only place you can get SS screws is from small tribe in Africa, that produces them in batches of 2 per year... and OH! they just went out of business.

Please essplain.

[soccer4minimags]

Are you supposed to use ss? I thought your not supposed to thread something stronger (ss) into something softer (Al) so you don't mess up the threads.
I've never really payed attention to what my screws are made of, but I don't have a rust problem.

[SaS]

that makes sense soccer..... you would cross the threads too easily and that would be it.... rethread or new frame for you

[Tunaman]

The Nickel intellis come with stainless screws...they are available.

[BajaBoy]

Originally posted by soccer4minimags
Are you supposed to use ss? I thought your not supposed to thread something stronger (ss) into something softer (Al) so you don't mess up the threads.
I've never really payed attention to what my screws are made of, but I don't have a rust problem.

The field strip screw is SS i believe..(Al xvalve) and i think the frame screw is just steal.

[JEDI]

Originally posted by Tunaman
The Nickel intellis come with stainless screws...they are available.

Ahh! I read you loud and clear good buddy.

[Bad_Dog]

anyhow, is steel not harder than aluminum? steel screws or stainless steel screws, either way both metals are harder than aluminum...

[Creative Mayhem]

My nickle ygrip didnt come with an SS frame screw. Whatsupwidat?!?!

[soccer4minimags]

same here? Maybe its just intelliframe for some reason?

[kenndogg]

you know that you can always go to the hardware store an pick up a couple for like a buck.

[AGD]

I'll tell you EXACTLY why we don't ship stainless socket head cap screws with ANY of our products! 13 years ago we did and every single one of them got stripped out by agressive use of an allen wrench. HUNDREDS came back and we had to cut and pry them off.

Never again, use them at your own risk!

AGD

[JEDI]

Originally posted by AGD
I'll tell you EXACTLY why we don't ship stainless socket head cap screws with ANY of our products! 13 years ago we did and every single one of them got stripped out by agressive use of an allen wrench. HUNDREDS came back and we had to cut and pry them off.

Never again, use them at your own risk!

AGD

Oh.... see, that's what you get when you order stuff produced by small tribes in Africa... Hahaha

[Tunaman]

...I think he is referring to the grip screws. On the Y grips they use the Hogue grips which take the round heads . The Intellies with the Dye grips take the flatheads. I believe the black flatheads used in the Intelliframes have rusted and he wonders why they werent stainless. I am sure AGD doesn't use the shiny ones in the black frames because they dont match color wise....

[dyst0pia]

my black intelli appears to have ss hex screws in it...