Good Grief, what a bunch of malarky.

18-8 stainless is the most commonly used stainless for making fasteners. The screws i have used, may or may not be imported. I don't know where they were made. The 'yield strength' of these screws is irrelevant when they are used as ventliners. Yield strength refers to how strongly a fastener can hold things together. These screws only have one simple chore; they provide a place to make a small hole. In all the time i have lived on this earth, i have never worked with a 'stainless steel' that anyone would consider 'soft'. These screws in no way can be considered 'soft'. I daresay, you could spend a week trying to drill a hole through one, and you wouldn't get it done.

If these screws can withstand 80,000 psi, that makes them strong enough to contain smokeless magnum cartridges. That makes these screws stronger than the barrel of any muzzle loader.

Now, all of this discussion is a waste of time and silly, because i am not in any way, competition for Lehigh. There is no need for you to try and shoot me down. I am not trying to take any of Lehigh business. No way, am i interested in selling ventliners. I mentioned my ventliners to Sabotloader as a joke, a joke is all.