• @[email protected]
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    5116 hours ago

    As a machinist and welder, I would strongly prefer an actual 6000 lb lump of stainless over a cybertruck. I can actually use stainless steel to make things.

    • @chaogomu
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      815 hours ago

      I’ve never worked with stainless, but I hear that it’s a pain in the ass. And then, if you have no coating on it, it still stains from touching all sorts of shit.

      • @Duamerthrax
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        1414 hours ago

        It’s called stainLESS, not stainFREE. The Delorean came with instructions on how to clean it so it didn’t rust.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 hours ago

          It depends on the grade of stainless actually. I’ve never run into “proprietary 30X stainless” but I have plenty of experience with 304, 308, 309, and 316. 309 can rust on you, but I’ve never seen 316 rust outside of ludicrously corrosive environments.

          I have what’s known in the industry as “magic piss fingers”. What that means is that I am a salty, sweaty man who can rust just about anything rustable simply by touching it with my bare hand. That being said, I haven’t managed to get a single speck of rust on my welded 316 hammer in 12 years of using it.

          • @Duamerthrax
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            149 minutes ago

            Yup. I’ve seen rust finger prints left on freshly machined steel.

            • @[email protected]
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              Nickel. It provides both corrosion resistance and increased ductility which makes the material more likely to bend before breaking. I like using it to weld onto busted taps to try to back them out because the weld will flex a little bit instead of just snapping off.

          • ✺roguetrick✺
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            12 hours ago

            magic piss fingers

            You got that in your grinder bio?

            • @Draghetta
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              -29 hours ago

              Oh I’m sorry, you thought you could connect to your network without a cable? This is not wirefree. Now take this network cable with two pins instead of eight and enjoy your wireless technology.