DEWALT Collated Drywall Screws – Fine Black

If you’ve fixed plasterboard to metal studs all day with a standard drill and loose screws, you’ll know the routine. Drop a screw, pick it up, drop another. These DEWALT collated fine thread drywall screws exist to end that. They come joined in strips of 50, ready to feed through an autofeed screwdriver, so you can keep moving along the wall without stopping to reload every few seconds.

The thread is fine, which is the whole point. Fine thread drywall screws are made for fixing board to light gauge metal profiles, and this pack is rated for steel up to 0.88mm thick. The needle point bites into the metal cleanly rather than skating across it, which saves you from that annoying moment where the screw wanders off line and chews the board edge. Choose between 35mm and 45mm lengths depending on whether you’re fixing a single layer or doubling up.

Why Collated Fine Thread Drywall Screws Save Time

A strip of 50 loaded into the screwdriver means 50 fixings with no fumbling. Over a full day on a partition job, that adds up to a serious chunk of time. The strip itself is designed to stop screws jamming in the magazine, which matters more than it sounds. Nothing kills your rhythm like a clogged feed halfway down a stud wall.

The bugle head sits the screw into the paper face of the board and pulls it just below the surface without tearing through. That leaves a neat recess ready for jointing compound. Set your depth stop correctly and every head ends up at roughly the same level, which means less filling and a flatter finish once you’ve skimmed over.

Coating and Compatibility

The black phosphate finish gives a decent level of corrosion resistance for normal interior work. It’s the standard coating you’ll see on drywall screws across the trade, and it does its job inside dry, heated buildings. These screws suit DEWALT, Hilti, Makita, Senco, Powers and most other autofeed collated screwdrivers, though it’s always worth checking your tool’s strip angle and screw length range before ordering in bulk. A quick glance at the manual saves a pallet-sized headache.

Worth knowing: this is the fine thread version. DEWALT also make a coarse thread version for fixing to timber studs, and a reverse thread type for Diamond Board. Fine thread into timber can strip out or fail to grip as well as it should, and coarse thread into thin steel tends to skate and distort the metal. Match the thread to the substrate and you’ll avoid most of the usual complaints.

Each pack holds 1000 screws and weighs about 2kg, so it’s a manageable size to carry up a ladder or stack in a van without wrecking your back. For a plasterer’s labourer or a dry-liner working through a floor of partitions, a pack like this goes quickly. Buying in bulk keeps the cost per screw down, which is the sort of thing the accounts person tends to notice before anyone else.