[TheForge] Re: sex bolts

Thu Nov 21 20:50:05 2002

Thank you,
Thank you,
and thank you again,

Roger
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Mike Spencer wrote:

> > 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
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
>
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