Their web-site is
www.grk-canada.com
Unfortunately their web-site is mainly ifp.
I called them and they could not give me a straight answer. Probably they thought if I
call from US I must be wanting to hear ifp.
When I asked for metric I might have puzzled them totally.
Anyway I asked if they used any DIN or ISO norms since they claim their stuff has a
German / Swiss touch. They had no answer to this one.
Then I asked for documentation in SI and the "technical" guy said their catalogue hs
"some" metric.
Personally, I beleive that the images on the net are actually their catalog sheets.
But we'll see.
The German/Swiss thing may as well be advertisment bla-bla. Since German thigs sell
good we'll say that our products are made by German specs. People in Hw Stores won't
know the difference and mostly won't check.
I will be surprised to see a quote of a DIN / ISO standard or anything similar. But, I
may be wrong.
I was looking for a long time for such screws and if they are truly metric I will buy
a bunch. They seem to have a rep in NJ.
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------Original Message------
From: "Gregory Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: April 23, 2001 2:42:09 PM GMT
Subject: [USMA:12396] metric wood screws
In a Home Hardware home centre in Ontario (i.e. lumber yard) I found some metric
dimension wood screws.
They are manufactured by GRK Canada, but the literature quotes "The screw with the
German twist" and "Swiss Quality". The box itself quotes the "nominal" imperial size
in large font with the hard metric size in small font (i.e. 4.0 x 40 mm; #8 x 1-1/2
nominal). The two varieties I saw was the regular pan head and a regular counter-sink
head. The counter-sink head had a novel feature of having small "blades" beneath the
head to chisel out it's own countersink hole.
There were two obvious differences: they use a torx (six point star) driver, either
T15 or T25, and the price was about 50% greater than equivalent North American screws.
The woman at the sales counter said that they stopped carrying the screws for a few
months, but the local contractors demanded that they stock them again. Apparently the
Torx head works very well with a modern power screw drivers (better than Robertson
(square) or Phillips (4 point star) drivers). I've had a chance to use the new screws
and the driver doesn't "hop" out of the screw head.
The information I have quotes a supplier in Thunder Bay, Ontario:
L-W M Group
White-Wood Distribution
1046 Gorham Street
Thunder Bay ON Canada P7B 5X5
tel 807 345-1605
fax 807 345-0300
The web address for GRK Canada is:
http://www.grk-canada.com/
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