<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> List members<o:p></o:p> I responded to an e-mail that listed the tools the author uses to install Dampp Chasers, and I added the gimlet to the list.  After sending my reply, I surfed to find them through Google.  Up came 1,143,239 -give or take- ways to make a gimlet…the vodka drink, not the tool.  Digging through the recipes, I found it: Amazon.com and Amazon Marketplace.  Its order number is:  MMSS 3 MM 3  Screw Starter, for $5.04.  Amazon Marketplace lists it the same way for $3.27.  The manufacturer is Great Neck Tool Co.  If two sources are good, three must be better: VanDykes Restorers, item number 02212407 for $5.49.  They call it a “screw hole starter.”  Sometimes they can be found in established hardware stores.  Talk to the “associate” with some gray hair, wrinkles, callused hands and the faint odor of sawn pine from his clothes.<o:p></o:p> If you enjoy “antiquing,” you can probably find one or many more for about $1.00. No one seems to know what a gimlet is or how to use it, me included until my “ooOOOooh” moment occurred.<o:p></o:p> For what its worth…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paul C<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>