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Date:   Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:14:05 -0700
Reply-To:   Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:   Re: Tail lamp assembly mounting screw
Comments:   To: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:   <4C2662D9.9060402@gmail.com>
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Check out Roger;s SS fasteners - pretty nice.

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Zoltan wrote: > >> Sheet metal is sheet metal in Germany and USA just the same. Metric or >> not it's still a sheet metal screw. Take it and you won't see any >> difference. Only the diameter matters really a little. But they are >> close and if you find that you need to use a bigger one, take it. >> That's a kind of item that is not worth dilly-dolly over. >> > > Be that as it may, but I'm pretty sure that if I picked up a US sheet > metal screw and used it, the universe would have split into a parallel > with this one where US and metric SMS's aren't interchangeable and I'd > have shattered some pesky NLA part and I'd be getting "why did you do > that?" responses to my subsequent post for help. > > That's how these things work, you know. > > -- > Rocky J Squirrel >

-- Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van' 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'

Crescent Beach, BC

www.thebassspa.com www.crescentbeachguitar.com http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27


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