I can retain anally with the best of them.
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Rocky J Squirrel
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
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JordanVw@aol.com wrote:
> lol. wut.   dude.. the screw goes thru a sheetmetal clip. it doesn't
> have to be anything specific!!  just the length is important.. that's it!!
>
> and i thought *i*  was anal retentive.. LOL.
>
>
> In a message dated 6/26/2010 2:01:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>     I'm missing one of the tail light assembly mounting screws so I paid a
>     visit to my friendly ACE Hardware to see if I could find one. I was
>     poking through the fasteners section when a red-vested sales associate
>     approached and asked if he could help me find something.
>
>     I handed him the screw.
>
>     "That's just a sheet metal screw," he said.
>
>     I told him I had reason to believe it's metric.
>
>     He snorted and picked up a #12 SMS and tried to match the threads. They
>     were too coarse. He looked at the screw.
>
>     "You're not going to find a metric sheet metal screw."
>
>     "Someone did -- you're holding it," I pointed out, helpfully.
>
>     He handed it back. I've come home empty-handed.
>
>     So -- I need one. Or eight in stainless. Any ideas?
>
>