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Default Nice antique store find

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 8:39:01 AM UTC-5, Foxs Mercantile wrote:
On 11/13/2017 10:50 PM, wrote:
Aren't the knobs some sort of plastic? I would not think a metal screw
would get stuck in plastic from rusting.


Another thing you apparently can't understand.

If the screws rust, the rust embeds itself in the plastic.

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Rusty metal also expands somewhat. As The Beav might say, it's "swell"...