• @officermike
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    455 days ago

    I work in a manufacturing environment and keep all the weird anomalies that turn up in our hardware inventory. I have screws and carriage bolts with either half-formed or non-existent threads, keps nuts without the built-in washer, fiberlock nuts without the nylon, washers that didn’t get the center hole stamped through all the way, screws with off-center heads, Phillips screws with a ghost of where the Phillips hole should be, zinc-plated screws that only got half-dipped, a pop rivet that had the pin pressed cross-wise through the shank, and my favorite piece is a ball bearing that was packaged with a bee nestled inside the hole.

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      195 days ago

      This, friend, is the fodder of which Dull Men’s Club is made. You cannot merely mention this collection; to not show it would be cruel.

    • Bubs
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      155 days ago

      Are you able to share pics of your collection?

    • @[email protected]
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      95 days ago

      My favorite one that I have found was a tape measure with exactly one error. The 2’ 0.5" mark was marked one sixteenth off. The entire rest of the tape measure was accurate.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      35 days ago

      Things I’d like to put in a sturdy balloon or wrap in aluminum foil and blast out of a canon for $200 Alex!

      • Atelopus-zeteki
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        45 days ago

        Your pleasure, is My pleasure. Years ago, helping a friend clear out the house, and found a nearly full box of Phillips company Screws. It was at that point that I realized, that tool we all have one of is a PhillipsScrew driver, not a Phillips Screwdriver, or perhaps more accurately a PhillipsScrew screwdriver, if you will.

    • @dukeofdummies
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      75 days ago

      Oh my god we just bought a house and I feel this too much.

      The previous owners will constantly shift between roberts, phillips, hex, and flathead within the exact same sheet rock wall.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 days ago

        Probably emptied the workshop dust pan into their personal toolbox every evening before going home.

    • @Cort
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      45 days ago

      It’s like they want everything to fall apart and catch fire

  • Riskable
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    135 days ago

    Someone at the factory accidentally disabled hyperthreading. You only get a core.

  • 97xBang
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    85 days ago

    you know they did that shit on purpose because they hate you. you should cause a scene, or everyone will know you let them win. pls report back.

  • Riskable
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    85 days ago

    You can’t just post lewds to Dull Men’s Club!

    Put some threads on! Geeze!

  • Riskable
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    75 days ago

    I’d say this is fastenating but obviously it’s not!

  • @[email protected]
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    5 days ago

    I tried to install a luggage rack on my car and the screw holes for the cover plates weren’t tapped, I feel your pain. Didn’t matter though because the cover plates didn’t align anyways so just left them off instead of tapping the holes myself

  • Riskable
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    65 days ago

    I didn’t think it was possible but you just put a new spin on screwing.