Screws, beautiful screws!

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: February 22, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Screws, beautiful screws!


> 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
>

Well, there's a nice article on wood screws in the current Fine Woodworking
magazine. But you're not going to like it.

Del