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system in the frame draws the door shut like a refrigerator door with a magnetic seal.

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Light weight, detachable forks for shovel loaders are available from J. E. Coleman Co. Scoop Forks are 4" wide, replacing the previous 5" standard width. The narrower fork is 20% lig]lrter.

Construction is with cold rolled steel panels and vinyl end caps over metal or kiln dried fir railings. The core is a combination of small-cell urethane foam and honeycomb for light weight insulation.

An adjustable threshold eliminates subfloor notching and assures tight fit against weather.

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Horder Thon Wood

Anchor Sale Corp. is marketing Americana paneling with a fumiture-like finish in a tough texture surface. Americana comes 5/32" thick, in 4' x 7' and 4' x 8, sizes.

The panels have a variety of applications and are available from warehouse inventories or direct mill shipments.

24" x 5116" blue adjustable tie-downs with hooks attached. Python tie-downs are made of duPont Nordel, a tough hydrocarbon rubber.

They are also supplied in 5/16" and,7 /76" rope and 5A" sttap on continuous reels for custom cutting to desired lengths and offered in a variety of floor and counter displays.

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Eosily Hung Up

A wall hanging display of nine woodgrain hardboard panelings is available from Celo-

Scooo forks in action

The capacity is 4,000 lbs. per pair. The forks have 46"" carcying length.

They are temporarily fastened to the blade of a shovel loader by means of two large bolts on each fork clamp, acting as set screws.

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Uhrosonic Power

The Branson Sonic Power Co. pistol grip hand tool is designed to spot weld plastic to plastic, stake plastic to metal and insert metal into plastic with ultrasonic energy.

The pressure and time span of the energy flow is manually controlled by means of a trigger switch on the handle. The tool weighs 6 lbs., is 20" long and is 3" in diameter. ft transforms electrical energy into vibratory energy at 20.000 cycles per second.

Thermoplastics such as ABS, PVC, acryl- ics, polyolefins and modified styrenes may be ultrasonically assembled. Energy output varies from 1?00 to 880 inch pounds per second depending on po\4/er supply.

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Pre-Hung, With Steel

A pre-hung steel door line, available in 13 models, has been dweloped by GeorgiaPacific Corp's. weather-seal div.

A floating magnetic weather-stripping

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Decorotive Murol Ponels

Gorgeous summer shades tex. The 4' wide by 5' high display is assembled with C hooks.

It has a room idea panel in four colors. Other panels list sales pcints.

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New Adhesive

Huron Adhesive Corp. announces a panel and construction adhesive. The material bonds paneling, plywood and drywall to studs or other construction surfaces. It is also used for general bonding..

It is available in .1 gallon or 1 quart cartridges and bulk containers.

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MURAL PAt{ELS, such as this shoreline scene from Marlite, fit the 5' width tub-shower recess, the plastic-finished hardboard panels also can be'used with other tub models. Colors are gold and brown on white. WRITE: The Merchant Maiazine. 573 So. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif.9ll01.

Conslont Tension

The Python tie-down counter display unit offered by Lauren Mfg. Co. contains a dozen

Fireploce Premiers

A gas fireplace joins the Heatilator line of wood burning fireplaces. The unit has a cantilevered base and raised hearth. The flare of the hood and receding lines reduce the visual size of the fireplace.

The fireplace is prime coated at the faetory and may be painted any color to match

AUGUST, r969 any decor. Realistic oak or birch gas logs slip over burner in fireplace hearth.

The unit is bolted to studding and vented through ceiling and roof, elbowed through the wall or into wall between 2 x 4 studding.

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Rippling Rock

Cavrok Corp. now has Serpentine Castlerock dimensional masonry panels. The panel has several advantages over Cavrok's standard Castlerock design in eertain applications.

When an uninterrupted expanse is desired, Serpentine panels are more conve-

The siding can be left unfinished, stained or is available in standard colors. It conforms to 303 specialty siding requirements of the American Plywood Assn.

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Distinctive cawings that transform plain cabinets and furniture into custom units are available from Woodland Products Co. Classic Carvings plaques and orrraments are low cost, are made of real utood. and. can be painted, stained or antiqued to suit all tastes.

Precision Milled

Carved doors, available with deep etched, hand-rubbed finish in natural woods and

3D rock panels nient. They are irregularly shaped at the edges because the panel border follows the line between stones. This makes it possible to join any two panels side-to-side or erndto-end without cutting or sewing.

When the rnortar line between the panels is filled in, the butted panels become a solid, uninterrupted wall. Most Cavrok panerls come pre-trimmed of selvage.

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Rough Sqwn Siding

A rough-sawn Philippine mahogany shingle siding is new from Boise Cascade. The siding has the appearance of wood shingles.

A plywood panel 4' x 16", the shingle siding has shiplap joints and offset butt edges. It gives full 4' exposure, It can be

Custom, expensive look

Available in a variety of styles and shapes, the carvings work well on doors, panels, walls, ceilings, bookcases, Iightswitches, cabinets, headboards and furniture of all types. The uses are limited only by your customer's imagination. A display rack is available for ease of customer selection and purchase.

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Speciol Hond Corved Sign

Wide selection of patterns wood grained vinyl, cost little more mass-produced entry doors and less custom doors.

Precision computer-controlled milling of Sculptured Wood Products allows wide selection of patterns. Doors are available in widths of 2'6",2'8", 3' and 3'6" in heights of 6'8", 7' and 8', ly"" thick. Variety of finishes include walnut, pecan, ash, birch mahogany and oak.

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Tile Cut Up

The polycell ceramic tile cutter for the do-it-yourself installer is distributed by Burco Products, Inc. The base is molded of durable plastic and marked with dimension scales at top and bottom. Projecting just above the surface of the base is an internally mounted cutting wheel.

Special introductory offer

Imported from England, the cutter is designed to retail at $2.49 each. It's shipped 12 cutters to a carton and, for a Iimited time, Burco is making an introductory I0% extra discount for dealers on three carton orders.

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Tile Somplers

GAF Corp. offers a line of floor samplers to distributors as a selling tool for inhome and in-store custorners. The 14" x 14" sampler features mini-samples of standard gauge vinyl asbestos floor tile patterns.

In addition to the five samplers, a "decorator collection" displays the full standard gauge vinyl asbestos floor tile line.

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Suits

A l{EW UllE of woodgrain hardboard paneling is now available from The Celotex C,orp. Designed to match a full range of interior decors, the hardboard panels come in a range of colors from whitish, limed oak to a dark brown natural walnut. Finishes include avocado butternut, above; silver walnut, cherry, teak, golden walnut, weathered butternut, pecan, limed oak and natural walnut. WRIIE: The Merchant Magazine, 573 So. Lake Ave., Pasadena, Calif. 91101.

Convenienl Conversion

Attractively textured cedar closet panels are easy to cut and fit. They can be nailed to studs or applied to wall surfaces with adhesive.

Bug ou[ you

Moths

Cedarline panels are 100% Tennessee red cedar. Moth-repelling fragance keeps woolens and clobhing fresh smelling. Basement or under the stairs storage areas can be converted to cedar closets.

Cedarline comes in Y+" t}aick panels 16" x 48", packed 12 pieces per carton, or in standard 4' x 8' sheets.

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Fingering Innovolion

The Cawok Corp has an improvement in its dimensional masonry panels. The 4' x 8' panels, which previously had to be

AUGUST, I969 trimmed prior to installation, now come with the selvage pre-trimmed.

As well as being pre-trimmed, Colonial red and Colonial white brick panels come

Resistont Strond

Armco Steel Corp. developed an aluminum coated wire strand that offers up to four times the corrosion resistance of conventional galvanized strand.

The strand, manufactured under strict quality control conditions, is available in a variety of forms: 7 wire strand, 7/32-%" in diameter; 19 wire strand, Vz-t" diameter; and 37 wire strand, l-lr/4" dianrreter.

The wire is hot-dip coated with commercially pure aluminum instead of the standard silicon-bearing aluminum alloy which is used to coat most convention strands.

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Subtle Color

Conwed Corp. The siding blends with brick, stone and other materials.

Available in horizontal lap and plain panels, the siding is guaranteed by Conwed for ten years against blistering, peeling, cracking or checking visible by normal inspection, The siding is available in 8" and, L2" widths 16' long, in 4'x 8'and 4'x 9'sizes. The panels are installed with metal strips 16" on center, then covered and concealed by "snap-on" galvanized steel battens.

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Lomp Lite Control

Snapping off half-bricks "pre-fingered."

The half-bricks on the pan- el end have been perforated so they can be snapped off. Two panels can be fitt€d and joined without cutting or sawing.

When it's desirable to retain the straight edge on the panel end, the perforations can be regtouted with Cavrok compound.

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The Manchester-Pierce free standing fireplace from Condon-King Co. offers a new stipple enamel finish. The stipple, though semi-gloss, takes on a hand textured look, The unit is made of heavy gauge sheet steel with double wall construction and full insulation. It's availa.ble in nine colors.

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Resembles Wood

A vinyl-clad siding, like wood but having no structural or surface grain, is offered by

Home Equipment Mfg. Co. announced the Hemco-Matic indoor lamp lite control, a photo-electric-eye operated lamp regulator that automatically turns the lamp on at dusk and off at dawn.

Through a system of automated engineering, Hemco is able to mass-produce the unit at a low price. Lamp lite control is blister-packed on a black and yellow package die-cut to resemble a house.

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Blind Rivets

Scovill Manufacturing: Co. announces a special nosepiece which can be used to set blind rivets so that the resulting rivet will permit two pieces of material to revolve.

This is accomplished by using a void opening in the front of the nosepiece, slightly different from the height of the rivet flange, thus controlling the space between the two pieces of material. Instead of applying pressure on the flange, the outside diameter of the nosepiece is pressed against the work and when the rivet is set the resulting joint has a loose fit.

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Keep on Eye Out

Technically mass-produced to sell at a low price, Hemco introduced "Light Guard," an outdoor, automatic light control that operates by photoelectric eye, The unit is aimed at the vast private home and commercial demand for effective, inexpensive protection against burglary and vandalisn.

To add to the product's saleability, Hemco blister-packed light guard on a houseshaped, die-cut package, highlighted in yellow dnd black, which stands by itself, or can be racked.

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Time Mochine

Acroprint Time Recorder Co. announces the Model 125 payroll, job cost, and special application time recorder available with

Westorn Lumber & Bullding lloteriob ,Y|ERCHA},IT any one of eighteen standard typewheel combinations. Also, the recorder may be equipped with a year wheel or a special synbol wheel for denoting a certain location in which the machine is being used.

The recorder is furnished for either right or left side of card registrations. Uniform and legible time registrations may be obtained on card or paper stock of any size. The recorder is small (10'7n" * 8Y+" x 6)h") easy to install, and designed for wall, table, or platform mounting.

The unit operates on regular 115 volts 60 cycle power, and is simple to set after a power failure. The recorder features a one year factory guarantee and sells for $145.

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