A slight improvement over the finishing washer normally found at Home Depot is one that Mad River Canoes uses to support their 3/16" stainless machine screws that hold the thwarts and cane seat hardware trusses. In addition to being a little higher quality, they have a small flat edge to spread the screw load out without cutting into the fabric(or in the case of the gunwales on the canoe, the ash rails). Not sure if the modified finsih washers are called"load-bearing finishing washers" or whatever, but the wide flange stainless finishing washers that Old Town uses on their vinyl-gunwaled canoes, would be way overkill and look like the door panels going in a Hummer or something. Might want to contact Mad River to find their supplier for these finishing washers. I haven't seen them anywhere else but on their canoes. www.madrivercanoes.com Dimwitted Moose and flying squirrel At 09:32 PM 7/15/2002 -0400, Richie Chunda wrote: >In a message dated 7/15/02 10:31:56 AM, wilden1@JUNO.COM writes: > ><< I gave up on the little plastic holders and went with chrome screws with >the little formed chrome washers. >> > >On page 1234 of a book entitled "Everything Has a Name", I found this: >Chrome screws with little formed chrome washers = oval head screws with >finish washers. > >Richie |
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