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The following links are provided to give you additional information on stainless steel and some different applications for some of our products. If there are any questions or if you would like to add anything additional please email us with your contribution.
STAINLESS STEEL
PROJECTS & USES
USEFUL INFO
Equivalency Table: Provides the equivalencies of inches (decimal & fraction), millimeters, and screw sizes, from 1/64" to 1".
Conversion Table: Provides conversion factors for about any thing we could think of that you might like to convert!
Screw Sizes & Threads: Provides inches and millimeters for various screw sizes, as well as, the number of threads per inch for coarse and fine threaded screws and bolts.
The Proper Fastener: An excerpt from "The Practical Sailor Library - Volume IV - Do-It-Yourself Improvement Projects"
Mounting Hardware: That is, how to properly attach hardware to your deck!
Life Lines - Hand Crimping: Instructions illustrations for doing it yourself.
Nicopress Type Swages: A write-up from Brion Toss's book "The Complete Rigger's Apprentice" on these oval swages.
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SPECIAL & CUSTOM MADE ITEMS
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bosun or boatswain or bos'n - A multipurpose petty officer, Usually one of the best seamen, whose responsibilities included inspecting the ship's sails and rigging; every morning and reporting their state to the officer of the Watch. If new ropes or other repairs were needed, he also informed the first lieutenant. The Boatswain was in charge of all deck activities, such as Weighing or dropping anchor or handling the sails and he issued orders using a silver boatswain's pipe "His vigilance should ever be on the alert, and his eyes should be everywhere," noted The Naval Apprentice's Kedge Anchor (1841.) "He should be active of limb, quick of sight, and ready in the exercise of his mental faculties."
From: "A Sea of Words" by Dean King, Henry Holt and Company, Inc. New York, NY, 1995
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