Date:         Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:14:05 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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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'

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