Patient 0043

Well this defect is so small I nearly didn’t catalogue it. However, I saw fit to add it to the collection back in the day so I’m adding it here too. There’s a small dent in the second thread up from the point; that’s all!

Patient 0042

Long bent and mauled

Patient 0041

Another brass screw that’s been left with a small appendage

Patient 0040

A long brass screw with no thread

Patient 0039

Crushed slot

Patient 0038

This one’s so subtle it hardly shows up on photo – oh well! The head is slightly flattened off at the edge as is the thread near the top

Patient 0037

Ouch! Looks like the thread had been started at the point end before some catastrophic incident occurred

Patient 0036

Another pan-head with no slot. I’m just showing you as they come out from storage

Patient 0035

Must have got caught in the machinery somewhere. It’s been bent at the top and has a couple of small gouges where it’s been pressed at the end

Patient 0034

Large brass screw without a thread

Patient 0033

Strange one this one. It looks like it’s been cast rather than milled due to its all-over mottled appearance and rough deep slot

Patient 0032

Super-deep slot. If you had a tiny bike, you could park it in this screw!

Patient 0031

Brass with no thread

Patient 0030

Very similar to the last one (Patient 0029) but a much more subtle deformity and without the deep slot. Also, the thread at the head-end is slightly flattened off. Again, it’s subtle but it’s there

Patient 0029

The countersinking on this head hasn’t been correctly formed, leaving a rounded edge and a deep slot

Patient 0028

A relatively standard screw with a little piece of the head gouged out

Patient 0027

I assume that this one had been prepared for a deep thread but then missed out the threading stage

Patient 0026

Small brass with no thread

Patient 0025

Just when you thought you had seen them all, this one comes along. A steel screw that must have been caught off-centred in the thread mill

Patient 0024

Can’t quite work out what happened to this poor screw. It’s almost like it’s been badly cast rather than precision milled