are not as strong as hardwood, such as medium density fiberboard (MDF). For example, attempts to employ the customary method of affixing concealed hinges in cabinetry by the manufactured home or mobile some industry, where MDF is typically used, have been unsuccessful,
Reasons for the lack of success in the manufactured home or mobile home industry are, for example, that when fasteners, such as fastening screws, are used in an edge of an MDF cabinet component, such as a face frame member, which ranges in thickness from about one-half inch to about five-eighths inch to about three-fourths inch (but which is most typically about one-half inch), the fastener tends to cause the cabinet component to split, and the fastener tends to pull out of the cabinet component under the>> Narrator: SEVERAL MILLENNIA
BEFORE IT EVER ADORNED A
MARTINI, THE OLIVE AND ITS OIL
WERE CENTRAL TO MANY ANCIENT
ECONOMIES.
TODAY, OLIVES REMAIN AS POPULAR
AS EVER.
NOT ONLY ARE THEY TASTY, THEY'RE
ALSO HEALTHY, LOW IN CALORIES
AND CHOLESTEROL AND HIGH IN
DIETARY FIBER AND IRON.
OLIVES ARE INEDIBLE UNLESS
THEY'RE PICKLED.
THESE GOURMET OLIVES ARE STUFFED
BY HAND WITH ALL KINDS OF
FILLINGS, FROM ALMONDS TO GARLIC
CLOVES, EVEN BLUE CHEESE.
STRAIGHT FROM THE FIELD, THEY GO
INTO BARRELS OF BRINE.
FOR NINE MONTHS, THEY FERMENT,
THEIR HARD AND BITTER FLESH
BECOMING SOFTER AND SWEETER.
THEN IT'S ON TO A CONVEYOR THAT
TAKES THEM TO THE CLEANING AREA,
WHERE WORKERS REMOVE LEAVES AND
OTHER DEBRIS.
NEXT, THEY DROP ON TO A BELTED
CONVEYOR.
THE OPENINGS BETWEEN THE BELTS
GRADUALLY WIDEN.
AS AN OLIVE REACHES AN OPENING
EXCEEDING ITS WIDTH, IT FALLS
THROUGH INTO A BARREL BELOW.
BY THE TIME THE OLIVES REACH THE
END OF THE CONVEYOR, THEY'RE ALL
SORTED