[TheForge] Re: sex bolts

[Mike Spencer]

> If you think of it while visiting your hardware store I would sure
> like the name of the manufacturer of any sex bolts smaller that 1/4.

Here you go:

Gow's Home Hardware in Bridgewater, NS has #8 x 32 in 1/4", 1/2", 3/4",
1", 1-1/2" and 2" lengths, auminum, as well as "extensions" -- what I
would call stand-offs --  all from:


    H. Paulin & Co.
    55 Milne Av.
    Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

    Contact: Mr. John Timms
    Phone: (800) 268-4000
    Fax:   (416) 694-1869

    H. Paulin has warehouses in Vancouver, BC, Edmonton, AB and
    Winnepeg, Manitoba but I don't have phone or addresses for them.
    I can't find a company web site.

Company history:

   http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0VCW/7_26/61946971/p1/article.jhtml

Fastener data (at a price):

   http://www.industrial-fasteners.org/

Guess my favorite hardware store is pretty good -- they brought the H.
Paulin info up on their computer for me.  On the other hand, my
favorite industrial supply place got new management, remaindered their
two-generaton-long warehouse collection of Every Imaginable Tool,
Fastener and Widget and opened a nice, clean, shiny new showroom in a
high-rent industrial neighborhood.  Now, three years later, they have
gone down the tubes.  Dang.  The babbitt putty was right next to the
box of Nicholson brace-bit-sharpening files, over behind the rolls of
wire mesh.  All gone.  Dang.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
mspencer@tallships.ca            
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