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Subject: Brads was Help Finding "Report Covers" With Longer Spines!
From: Sarah Stegall <siliconwriter -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 04:07:40 -0800



On Friday, January 14, 2005, at 02:44 PM, Michael Collier wrote:


Brads, Dick. The word is overloaded (in building trades, a brad is a
small finish nail), but the reusable gradeschool type, made from copper
iirc, is the brad of brads.

I think I just remember them being called paper fasteners...but I was
young and not very technical at the time. Were they labeled as such on
the box? I'm not trusting my memory as much as I used to, but I recall
"[something] Fasteners" when you bought a box of them.

Of course there are all these things you find in a hardware store that
aren't necessarily labeled or named...if you don't know what it's called,
you probably don't know what you're doing :-)

I've got a box of "brads" on my desk here. Mine actually came from the offices of Ten Thirteen Productions in Los Angeles (the production company that made "The X-Files", "Millennium", "Harsh Realm", etc) because scriptwriters are now the chief market for these items. No matter how far we get into the 21st century, tradition still dictates that scripts be typed in Courier on 3 hole punch paper and bound with two (NOT three) brass brads. Seriously. Anyway, this box has a label on top:

Noesting Inc
#5 round head steel fasteners
100 per box

and it looks like Ten Thirteen paid $5.45 for the box.

Only info I have on Noesting is:

NOESTING INC
602 S 3rd Ave
Mount Vernon, NY 10550-4915
Tel - (914) 664-2252

Good luck. And dude, don't use really long brads. If your manuscript/text is more than 3/4 of an inch thick, ANY fastener is going to have a hard time keeping it together. For something thick, get it bound with combs or continuous wire.
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