“Nice threads.” In the 1970s, that was a slang phrase that a person would use to compliment someone’s clothes. Now a “thread” refers to a line of discussion on social media. But today we are referring to a totally different kind of thread: The kind that holds things on a metal rod, such as nuts and bolts. Those threaded fasteners are at the core of an entrepreneurial business in rural Kansas.
Weldon Gullickson is owner of K-W Manufacturing which produces various kinds of threaded fasteners. Weldon is a native Kansan, having been born at Horton. His wife Margaret grew up near Everest.
After a stint in the U.S. Air Force, Weldon went to work for a bolt and nut distributing company in Kansas City. He enjoyed the work and was offered the opportunity to open a distributorship for the company in Dallas. After several years in Texas, he and Margaret returned to northeast Kansas where he had a long career in the bolt and nut sales business.
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