🖼 Reply to “Pictures and nothing else” thread_2020_summer

[jack.luis]

There must exist a proper bolt that fits.

[janpom]

It’s more relevant whether it exists in my workshop than whether it exists outside of it.

[b264]

Philips are worse IMHO

[Paul77]

Than flats??

[jack.luis]

At least you can use a drill with philips head

I swear to god if anyone takes this as “its literally physically impossible to use with a drill” I’m going to lose it

@janpom

it exists in my workshop

Did someone break into your shop and leave those? It’s unlikely I hope . that you spent your own money on those

[fessyfoo]

@fessyfoo

I just fixed 2 remotes with problems.

they wires hadn’t failed but I repaired them anyway.
they had the dirty pots though:

that dinky little potentiometer kinda scares me now that I looked at it up close.

one of them:
before

after

[janpom]

I just can’t justify spending $5 on shipping whenever I need a specific bolt so I have to do with whatever the nearby hardware store has. This is how I got these long ago. Much better having them than not having anything at all, especially since it’s like 5 screwdriver turns to get them in.

[jack.luis]

Im just busting your balls broski, I totally get it and have been there before

[b264]

@janpom

I just can’t justify spending $5 on shipping whenever I need a specific bolt so I have to do with whatever the nearby hardware store has.

You’re lucky you’re in the EU

Here in the USA, the hardware stores are rather useless because they haven’t discovered metric yet.

[Paul77]

Embrace the imperial, kills me I have to use damn metric on everything.

[b264]

FUB (aka imperial / avoirdupois) to me, is just like this, but with different words:

@b264

It’s easy as pie.

Seventeen sixty-fourths of an elbow-chariot is equal to a bushel-knuckle.

Unless you’re in the UK, then it’s just seventeen sixty-sevenths of an elbow chariot is equal to a bushel knuckle.

For liquids, obviously. Everyone knows that.

For dry goods, simply use the Fourth Revised Charles Helck Conversion System. For most dry goods it just means that twenty-three sixty-fourths of an elbow-chariot is equal to a bushel-knuckle. Unless the dry goods are cereal grains, when it’s simply two-sevenths more. And obviously in the UK you have the bushel-knuckle adjustment system where on cloudy days you pack them nine-thirteenths as full to make up for the lack of sunlight. Everyone knows that.

This system is so good, it’s gotten us to the moon and back.

…and this is coming from someone in the USA. I can only imagine what other countries see.

[Paul77]

oh i read this one before, i did find it very funny. its all in what your used too.

[xsynatic]

It depends. I can definitely say i stripped many phillips heads, but never a flathead. I do however struggle to keep the screwdriver bit inside the grove while turning, especially with an electric screwdriver.

[frame]

use a sanding disc to cut the groove deeper

[xsynatic]

that’s not the problem, rather the bit moving to the outside/sliding out.

[xsynatic]

@frame

use a sanding disc to cut the groove deeper

also at that point i might just get the correct screw

[frame]

exactly, u should

[Plurf]

Basically this,
but it get even worst when you have to make a convertion: no other choice than to use some random web app,
Then you hit your head on the walls until.you understand that the dot and the coma are not interchangeable and won’t be working the way you intend to

[joshoujoe]

@Paul77

Embrace the imperial, kills me I have to use damn metric on everything.

Embrace the Metric we use both the imperial and the metric but it depends on what we measure! Or weigh or scale (Canadians will understand)

[Paul77]

I do, I really just say that stuff to get ol Brian @b264 worked up