This is hilarious- at least it is to me, anyway.

http://mdmetric.com/mosale/plastcalip.htm

I think I got one of these at Harbor Freight for a quarter... and look!
These guys even provided a link to the instructions!
Mine are grey, unfortunately- I like the yellow ones better. : )

Ironically, I was looking for something like this (the metric hardware, not
the yellow calipers) myself, and was just talking to a guy in town about it
today.
So, thanks for the link... and the chuckle.

Robert
'87 GL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Walters" <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: looking for a source for metric hardware

> Jake,
>
> Try Maryland Metric, here in the Baltimore area.
>
> htttp://mdmetric.com
>
> Have never done business with them, but found the site in a web search a
> year or so ago.   Looks like they have lots of stuff we could use.
>
>
> Sam
>
> --
> Sam Walters
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>
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