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Standard Nut Donates Items to Museum

John Wolz

Tim Csanadi announced that fastener memorabilia, production accessories and vintage employee equipment from Standard Nut & Bolt have been donated to Mell�s Fastener Museum.
Mel Kirsner began collecting fastener memorabilia as a hobby. The collection outgrew his home, and in 2000 he opened a new building on his Julian, CA, property for a museum.
Csanadi, president of Fall River Manufacturing/Standard Nut & Bolt, donated the items following the acquisition of the Cumberland, RI-based Standard.
The Western Association of Fastener Distributors toured the museum during its recent meeting in Coronado, CA.
Among the hundreds of items on display are a branding iron from Continental Screw and a scooper used to get fasteners to the front of a bin so clerks could fill orders. Both were donated by Csanadi; a chess set made of fasteners, burlap bag for anchor bolts from Threaded Rod Co.; fossil resembling Archimedes� water snail screw from 350 B.C.; buggie top bolt from the 1860s; a 33 1/3 RPM record promoting Red Head 606, narrated by Bob Clark for Phillips Drill Company; ITW trigonometry tables; and a container for Shakeproof Lock Washers listed at 10 cents a package and promoted as �The More Vibration, the Tighter the Lock.�
Kirsner founded Pell Mell Supply Inc. in San Diego, CA, in 1963. He sold it in 1991.
The museum is open by appointment. Contact Mel or Judy Kirsner. Tel: 858 488-9805 or 760 765-0596. \
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