On 6 May 2007 01:48:52 -0700, terry wrote:

On May 6, 11:07 am, judith wrote:
I had really struggled to find some long (three quarter inch) cropped
bolts.

Found at Two Wests and Elliott (www.twowests.co.uk) - also a good
range of other garden stuff

Excellent postal service.

(I'm nothing to do with them other than as a customer)

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Quote: "I had really struggled to find some long (three quarter inch)
cropped bolts".

Excuse this, because I'm not trying to be obtuse! Or even funny!

Three quarter inch bolts are pretty short; eh?.

But the interaction of the two words 'Greenhouse' and 'cropped' have
me confused!


A cropped bolt is a particular type of bolt used in green-houses. The
head has been "cropped" so that you can insert it into the greenhouse
slotted frame.
Normally they are half-inch - so in this context three quarters are
called "long".