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silver plated screws

Posted on November 17th, by gbettenhausen in Recent Projects. No Comments

silver plated slotted screwsHave you ever wondered how we silver plate screws? Most likely not…

These screws were silver plated for hinges – believe it or not there were over 6000 screws for the hardware on this job.   Sometimes it is amazing to us how many individual pieces and parts (just from a hardware perspective) go into a project.



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