Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:42:13 -0400
Reply-To: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
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From: Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject: Re: Westfalia Pop-Top Screws - Call It a Sclew
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oK,
HOw about we limit this to one week. I'm voting for Kerry because
of what has happened to the logging in upper part of PA.....
Bush is clueless as to what he let lose up there. My Syncro hate
cities, and more and more the northern PA area is begining to look
like a city. The last 2 years it has never been so bad.
Eric 86-VW4x4
vw4x4@fyi.net 86-SS Syncro
Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
92-Jetta GWC
www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, George Goff wrote:
> In a message dated 10/1/04 2:09:50 AM, warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> << You can't find metric around here and that big slotted
> screw is an old idea- they don't even have that in
> SAE. >>
>
> This is a sad time in the Land of the Free and, unfortunately, it ain't gonna
> get better. I mourn the passing of our fastener industry just like I am
> saddened by those long rows of boarded-up brick buildings in Massachusetts which
> used to be abuzz with the activity of shoemaking. I didn't ask for this glut
> of cheap dreck from the Pacific Rim to clog our markets; did you?
>
> It's true that about all you can find anymore is Phillips head screws or else
> that wretched abomination, the combination head. The slotted screw head may
> be an old idea, but it is a far better idea in almost any venue except an
> assembly line. Just compare a screw made in this country, if you still have any,
> to what the P-Rim has to offer. The junk screw is ill-formed with soft edges
> at the head circumference and with a poorly formed driver recess. It is sorta
> like a Play-Doh version of what a screw should be.
>
> I wish I could just blame those self-serving bastards in Washington for this
> sad state of affairs. After all, they have their hands on the handwheel of
> the floodgate which controls cheap imports. But, the merchants who saw a way to
> cash in on shoddy merchandise are also accountable. They stocked their
> shelves with junk that they could sell at two-for-one prices while still making a
> higher percentage on the markup, then they used the specious excuse that they
> were just yielding to the pressures of the market while they incrementally
> inflated the prices of the junk they proffered to that of quality goods. I guess
> in the end, I have to blame the dumb-ass, American consumer for swallowing
> this bill of goods just to crowd their lives with a bunch of poorly wrought
> trinkets.
>
> I'm voting for Kerry for a lot of reasons. High on the list is because there
> is a chance he won't send my kid (or yours) on a pointless forced march to
> his death. Also, because he might be speaking the truth when he says he wants
> to arouse from his coma the greatest industrial giant the world has ever known.
> I suggest you do the same.
>
> George
>
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