FW: hex socket bolts

[Delwin D Fandrich]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman
| Sent: August 22, 2005 9:13 PM
| To: deanmay@pianorebuilders.com; Pianotech
| Subject: Re: FW: hex socket bolts
| 
| > Here is my order to McMaster Carr for some hex socket screws along 
| > with some acorn nuts and washers. You should be able to 
| click on the 
| > catalog number and open their web site for descriptions. I ordered 
| > hanger bolts as well, as this was my first endeavor at suspending a 
| > plate and I was chicken about the machine threads working 
| in the wood. 
| > Ron N's encouragement helped me get over it.
| 
| It works fine - trust me...

As it has for Baldwin plates for, what?, twenty or thirty years now?

I recently read of a test that indicated the pull-out resistance of a machine
screw in wood was actually superior to a normal wood screw of similar size.

Del