The ones you are probably talking about are the metric machine fasteners (bolt&nut). The wood and metal screws come only in ifp in US and I beleive in Cda too. So you get only something like 1/4 x 2. The novelty was that someone actually was selling wood screws to metric sizes: ex: 4x40. What I really think happened is that GRK may have bought some machines or a hole production line from Germany/Switzerland. These machines are usually automated machines which start from steel wire or bars and "spit" out the screws at an incredible speed. All you do after that is to dip them in a chroming or galvanizing bath and sell them. It might be that these machines have standard DIN/ISO sizes but, like I said, the tech guy did not seem to know much about this subject. I will receive a catalog soon an I also have the NJ rep's number and I will try to find-out more. Adrian ------Original Message------ From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Adrian Jadic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: April 24, 2001 10:14:41 PM GMT Subject: Re: [USMA:12434] RE: metric wood screws Our local Lowe's and Home Depot sell metric screws. What is special about these apart from the alleged German/Swiss connection and the unusual cross-slot on the countersunk screws? Jim On Tuesday 24 April 2001 1754, Adrian Jadic wrote: > 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. ..... > 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. ..... -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644 ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
