vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Jun 6 16:31:56 2004

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, R. D. Davis wrote:
> True, but those who live in those flimsy new houses seem to forget
> that others do live in real houses that were built to last more than
> twenty-five years or so. As a result, some hardware stores don't even
> stock basic household hardware for some older houses like door knobs
> with a square threaded shafts connecting the knobs, selling some sort
> of newfangled doorknob mechanisms instead.

But you do not often need to replace the square shaft ones,
unless you've left the setscrew loose and stripped it,
or chipped one of the glass ones.

> From what I've read, the new black iron pipe isn't threaded,

I've always bought the long lengths of it unthreaded.
That's what Ridgid pipe threading dies are for.
But, It's more convenient to buy the really short
pieces ("nipples") already threaded.
Still, these days, you need to sift through the entire
stock to find some with GOOD threads.
Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 16:31:56 BST