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Post by warn on Nov 1, 2024 8:03:27 GMT
I needed to refix a handle to a drawer recently, and ended up finding exactly the hardware I needed in my old Meccano set. Knew it'd come in.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 1, 2024 8:41:45 GMT
But if you buy new screws, you miss the triumphant feeling of looking at the item you repaired and remembering, yes ! You went through Dads screw box and you found just the right thing for the job, possibly from the rear suspension unit of a Triumph Toledo. You only wasted four hours and had to compromise with two flat-head, and two pozidrive (one of which is twice the length of the other). but there is a joy to it.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 1, 2024 8:45:00 GMT
You only wasted four hours and had to compromise with two flat-head, and two pozidrive (one of which is twice the length of the other). but there is a joy to it. Mmm.
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Post by benaj on Nov 1, 2024 8:50:26 GMT
Well, there are not many things in life which can be fixed with just one single screw. Otherwise, our NHS would’ve been fixed by now.
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Post by jonno on Nov 1, 2024 9:24:11 GMT
Matt Hancock was apparently useless at DIY.
One loose screw and his whole cabinet fell apart.
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Post by benaj on Nov 1, 2024 9:28:02 GMT
It must be a very bad cabinet if the structure cannot tolerate one loose screw.
I don’t think scandinavian design would have such a problem.
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Post by Badly Drawn Stickman on Nov 1, 2024 10:40:04 GMT
Well, there are not many things in life which can be fixed with just one single screw. Otherwise, our NHS would’ve been fixed by now. I suspect if you expanded 'the fix' it would illustrate how many moving parts are involved in the process. Starting with the need for a screwdriver and ending with the mining of the raw materials for the screw i suspect we could fill several pages.
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Post by keitha on Nov 1, 2024 17:24:57 GMT
Nah 2 flathead, 1 posidrive and 1 Phillips
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Post by keitha on Nov 1, 2024 17:27:43 GMT
Remember this "you need the right tool for the job"
and I've hear people refer to Hancock as a right tool
And don't forget Starmer's father was a tool maker
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Post by mostlywrong on Nov 2, 2024 14:38:29 GMT
Nah 2 flathead, 1 posidrive and 1 Phillips I am relieved that I no longer have to work on equipment that uses a wide and varied selection of such fasteners in both metric and Imperial sizes.
I spoke to an engineering draughtsman once and asked why I needed 5 spanners and 3 screwdrivers to dismantle something.
There came forth a litany of buzz-words which, in the end, boiled down to cost and what was on the factory shelf at the time of manufacture.
Reader, I might have despaired.
Years later, I became heavily involved in the design of various equipments and became the bane of various design offices.
And I used to lug a technician's toolbox into design meetings in order to show them what the technician had to carry around. They got the message.
MW
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