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Article #190Re: Wood screws
From: John Paul Morrison
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 05:46
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 05:46
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In article <LD19TB1w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes: >gay@selkirk.sfu.ca (Ian D. Gay) writes: > >> Does anyone know where to buy slotted-head wood screws in the lower >> mainland? All the common retail outlets have only those #$%^&#@ >> Robertson screws. > > >Why on earth do you complain about Robertson wood screws? They're far >superior to the old-fashioned slotted type because they don't fall off >your screwdriver, and because you get much less slippage of the >screwdriver bit in the screw. > Oh god. A flame war on SCREWS!!!!!! Does anyone make Torx(TM) wood screws? > > >Robert Smits Ladysmith B.C. emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they >want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H.L. Mencken -- __________________________________________________________________________ John Paul Morrison | University of British Columbia, Canada | Electrical Engineering | .sig file without a cause jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca VE7JPM | ________________________________________|_________________________________
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!jmorriso From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) Subject: Re: Wood screws Message-ID: <1992Nov15.054621.8982@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <gay.721771666@sfu.ca> <LD19TB1w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> Distribution: bc Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 05:46:21 GMT Lines: 33