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Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by doctorhandshake »

winrid wrote: post #56
ThinkBeat wrote: post #46

I have discovered over time that I hate screws. No not really the concept, but there are far too fucking models. I started collecting screws to put together for my "workshop" were I repair whatever family, friends, enemies want me to look at. I am not great at it, not even good, but I am who they bring things to, and over time I have learned a bit of skills. (Also I fail, sometimes I break stuff and sometimes I hide…

Screws have different thread and pitch sizes. An app won't read that correctly. You can get a tool to measure the size/thread/pitch. I have containers with lots of slots and I label each slot, so I have many dozens of types of metric/imperial screws sorted. It's actually hundreds of screws, bolts, and nuts, I did the sorting as a relaxing week while watching some shows :D

What is this tool called?

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by CapitalistCartr »

doctorhandshake wrote: post #71
winrid wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screws have different thread and pitch sizes. An app won't read that correctly. You can get a tool to measure the size/thread/pitch. I have containers with lots of slots and I label each slot, so I have many dozens of types of metric/imperial screws sorted. It's actually hundreds of screws, bolts, and nuts, I did the sorting as a relaxing week while watching some shows :D

What is this tool called?

Thread checker.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by ThinkBeat »

ibash wrote: post #57
ThinkBeat wrote: post #46

I have discovered over time that I hate screws. No not really the concept, but there are far too fucking models. I started collecting screws to put together for my "workshop" were I repair whatever family, friends, enemies want me to look at. I am not great at it, not even good, but I am who they bring things to, and over time I have learned a bit of skills. (Also I fail, sometimes I break stuff and sometimes I hide…

There’s an ancient craftsman trick. A pointy woodscrew can fit any type of hole, whether it fits or not :)

That is a good one. I can cut the top off with my angle grinder

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by ThinkBeat »

winrid wrote: post #56
ThinkBeat wrote: post #46

I have discovered over time that I hate screws. No not really the concept, but there are far too fucking models. I started collecting screws to put together for my "workshop" were I repair whatever family, friends, enemies want me to look at. I am not great at it, not even good, but I am who they bring things to, and over time I have learned a bit of skills. (Also I fail, sometimes I break stuff and sometimes I hide…

Screws have different thread and pitch sizes. An app won't read that correctly. You can get a tool to measure the size/thread/pitch. I have containers with lots of slots and I label each slot, so I have many dozens of types of metric/imperial screws sorted. It's actually hundreds of screws, bolts, and nuts, I did the sorting as a relaxing week while watching some shows :D

I will have to check that out, thank you

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by pxmpxm »

quailfarmer wrote: post #66

This is cool, but if you want to see the proper extension of this style of computer, check out a Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook. They can be had for pretty cheap on eBay, and are amazing. In every way the opposite of the cost-cutting and cheap material you tend to see in consumer electronics. It’s the level of quality of a MacBook, but directed towards an ideal of “rugged” instead of “sleek”. Really a testament to what mo…

General Dynamics used to make these for the military - they're great for car diagnostics and such. The sunlight visible (transflective?) screen is a huge plus, and the whole thing is water proof:

http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_itronix_gd8200.htm...

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by pxmpxm »

tivert wrote: post #39
KennyBlanken wrote: post #30

I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping? In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd. In an end-of-society situation you're likely on foot, m…

> I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping? > In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd. Yeah, I've always thought these kinds of things wer…

> LARP gizmo

This - I think it's really just a Fallout-aesthetic prop and bunch of text making pretend arguments that it's useful for anything.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

#77

Post by rainbowzootsuit »

mulmen wrote: post #55
Ruthalas wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a 3rd party app, and see messages marked [delayed] not infrequently. Just as another data point.

Ok, that tracks. Which third party app?

I use Materialistic and see [delayed] all the time. Never knew what it was. I'm one of today's 10, I guess.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by temporarely »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #74
winrid wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screws have different thread and pitch sizes. An app won't read that correctly. You can get a tool to measure the size/thread/pitch. I have containers with lots of slots and I label each slot, so I have many dozens of types of metric/imperial screws sorted. It's actually hundreds of screws, bolts, and nuts, I did the sorting as a relaxing week while watching some shows :D

I will have to check that out, thank you

https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=metric+socket+hea...

Someone mentioned M* screws and that got me searching to find out what it is and then ended up on the above amazon page. So I like the indexing scheme there and question OP that it can't be done by image and machine learning. Basically, all those indexes [minus material which you can just select] should be trivially recognizable and that just leaves the precision measures.

Re: Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2

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Post by jamesbfb »

ibash wrote: post #57
ThinkBeat wrote: post #46

I have discovered over time that I hate screws. No not really the concept, but there are far too fucking models. I started collecting screws to put together for my "workshop" were I repair whatever family, friends, enemies want me to look at. I am not great at it, not even good, but I am who they bring things to, and over time I have learned a bit of skills. (Also I fail, sometimes I break stuff and sometimes I hide…

There’s an ancient craftsman trick. A pointy woodscrew can fit any type of hole, whether it fits or not :)

AKA “self-tapping” :)
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