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Old 09-08-2003, 11:32 PM
Rusty Hinge
 
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little grey armour plated things, about 1cm long and 1/8 inch wide?


Please Kay, Metric or Imperial!! Call me old fashioned but I prefer
imperial
and I don't mean the sweets! Jim


Eh? I was admiring Kay's brilliant bilingualism :~}.


Quite. Everyone needs to be able to go to a builder's merchant and
ask for 3 metres of two by one :-)


And half a kilo of 2" nails...

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