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The entry lockset is available in a variety of finishes.

Tool For Round Guts

A cutter for slicing materials such as copper, brass and aluminum tubing and thin-wall conduit quickly and accurately is new from Ridge Tool.

Manufactured from high-strength aluminum alloy, the tool features an enclosed feed screw to eliminate clogging and jamming, grooved rolls for close-to-flare cuts, a fold-away reamer, and a spare cutter wheel in the handle.

May 1988

Stretch Run access; call forwarding; outside line queue; music on hold; electric device control (at home or away), and home sentry. yellow pine are now available from Texas Pine Shake & Shingle Association.

A stretch bundling system which replaces expensive combinations of corrugated paper, microfoam, string, tape and shrink wrap to save cost per package is new from Signode Corp.

The thickness and manufacturing specifications of Greenshingles reportedly inhibit checking and cupping, while the thick taper provides high wind and hail resistance. They carry a 30 year limited warranty against termites and decay.

The semi-automatic Ringmaster System wraps one or several layers of stretch film to tightly unitize and shield long products, such as wood mouldings or plastic extrusions.

Features include a unique film clamp/cutter, gravity roller V-groove or flat conveyor, top roller guides, and dual voltage, three phase operation.

Home Phone Company

An easy-to-use, easy-to-install family telephone system with all the conveniences of the most sophisticated commercial systems is new from NuTone.

The Personal Telephone Exchange connects to new or existing phones using ordinary telephone wiring and allows for up to 12 private extensions.

Features include private room-toroom intercom; call transfer and hold; door answering and paging from any phone; call waiting; "listen in" room monitoring; last number redial; appointment alert; "please call" message; three-way conference callst speed dialing of up to 31 numbers; single-digit long distance

The uniformity of the 18" and24" shakes reportedly allows for quick, easy installation over open or solid sheathing.

Sheathing Market ls Bright

The future looks bright for residential sheathing products. Despite predicted drops in housing over the next several years, there will still be a demand for over 9 billion square feet of material.

Data from annual builder surveys show a growing sheathing usage since 1983, reaching a high of 9.6 billion square feet in 1986.

Although plywood is the major structural sheathing for house construction, waferboard and oriented strand board (OSB) have been increasing their market share for floor and roof applications since they were introduced in 1978.

Historical data for residential construction show waferboard/OSB has gained l4% ofthe subfloor sheathing market and 33% of the roof sheathing market since the early '80s.

There are many more types of products still in competitionfiberboard, gypsumboard, aluminum foilfaced paper, expanded and molded polystyrene and rigid urethane or