I would be hapy to know that SOMEONE on this planet
still makes a decent screw!!!! With the slot in the
middle (not Phillips, not a slot over to one side) and
strong enough to put in hardwood without snapping
off!!! The screws from American hardware stores these
days WEIGH aboiut 1/2 as much as their traditional
counterparts, and I guess that's why they are usually
Phillips: to prevent you from being able to torque it
to the breaking point!
Rant!
Thump
--- antares@euronet.nl wrote:
> Incidentally, 2 years ago I was in this small German
> place where Biene
> is located. The whole village lives from making
> screws, iron works and
> tuning pins.
> We visited a screw factory and also payed hommage to
> the Biene tuning
> pin factory.
> Very old stuff, very old Germany, rusty and dusty,
> but..quite
> impressive.
>
> Antares
>
>
>
> On zaterdag, feb 22, 2003, at 20:46
> Europe/Amsterdam, Richard Brekne
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > gordon stelter wrote:
> >
> > >From whence doth Biene cometh? Why bettereth?
> > Thumpe
> >
> >
> > Germany. I dont like blued pins... they seem to
> rust easy for some
> > reason. And I like just like the feel of a nickled
> pin. I suppose its
> > just sort of my imagination. On the otherhand... I
> have less sorting
> > to do with Biene as a general rule then other pins
> I have used over
> > here. I would think they would be available from
> somebody over
> > there... they seem to be one of the biggest names
> over here.
> >
> > RicB
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Richard Brekne
> > RPT, N.P.T.F.
> > UiB, Bergen, Norway
> > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> A. Oorebeek,
> The Netherlands
>
> see my website at : www.concertpianoservice.nl
>
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