I am surprised she don't display any spring washers (there are maybe two?). They can look quite fancy. Plain washers get old quickly I guess when you got a set of outer to inner diameter ratios.
Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
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Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#22There's some interesting shaped ones in the pile closest to her, not really washers I think. I wonder how they were collected/selected - picked up from the streets perhaps?
(I have an extensive collection of hard drive platter spacers)
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#23If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
What do you think are the odds she's on HN?
If not... could we get her to join and do a Show HN? Or even an AMA?
Because I'd tune in.
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#24If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.
this is part of the first friday art walk happening every month in portland. i can imagine that while this display is still unusual in that context, a lot more people are going to be out looking for interesting stuff, and i'd like to think that at least once in a while an interesting conversation will happen. maybe someone collecting screws or nuts or even offers to add to the collection or someone working with these…
I looked at the photo before I read the tweet itself and was thinking that corner looked familiar! That’s the corner where Congress and Free St, right? I’d recognize it anywhere - when my kid was still small, the children’s museum was still there and I’ve walked past that spot a million times.
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#25Reminds me of this tool museum in Troyes, France: https://www.discoverfranceandspain.com/maison-de-loutil-et-d... It is filled with hundreds of slight variants of different tools.
A few years back I found a youtube channel about unusual guns. And it was fascinating because they had all these zany, really distinctive guns like four-barrelled shotguns and revolver-rifles. Unfortunately they ran out of such weapons pretty quickly and the channel devolved into a lot of "this gun that looks and works just like every other AK-47 is interesting because it was made in Hungary, and most Hungarian AKs r…
I wonder if you are talking about forgotten weapons with Ian McMullen. I could understand if you would get tired of seeing 50 different iterations of the same rifle. I take it as it is interesting to see how each country in the Warsaw pact or countries that the Soviet union supplied technical packages to, such as North Korea, China, or Vietnam, iterated on the design. How did they improve the design or what were there limitations in manufacturing. What can be learned from the changes they made.
For such, to each their own.
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#26Her and Adam Savage would get a long great I bet. He had an entire live stream sorting a box of knobs and handles he picked up at an estate sale, that he was super excited about.
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#27Reminds me of this tool museum in Troyes, France: https://www.discoverfranceandspain.com/maison-de-loutil-et-d... It is filled with hundreds of slight variants of different tools.
A few years back I found a youtube channel about unusual guns. And it was fascinating because they had all these zany, really distinctive guns like four-barrelled shotguns and revolver-rifles. Unfortunately they ran out of such weapons pretty quickly and the channel devolved into a lot of "this gun that looks and works just like every other AK-47 is interesting because it was made in Hungary, and most Hungarian AKs r…
There’s an interesting museum in Cody, Wyoming that has thousands of guns, including some very interesting ones like whaling guns from the 1800s. Well worth a visit if you have an interest in firearms, especially from the ‘Wild West’ era!
It’s also one of a set of four museums, all of which are very interesting: Art, Natural History, Firearms, and Buffalo Bill.
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#28That’s awesome! Good for her! She seems super interesting.
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#29Reminds me of this tool museum in Troyes, France: https://www.discoverfranceandspain.com/maison-de-loutil-et-d... It is filled with hundreds of slight variants of different tools.
I honestly feel that way every time I walk into the hardware store.
When doing e.g. vehicle mechanics you need like 4 spanners of different shapes and sizes for each nut size, and like 3 different sockets of different lengths and tap width for each nut size.
My wife accuses me of buying slightly different tools for fun (which I do), but, like, you really need those slightly different tools.
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#30I am only really aware of washers enough to know that there are a lot of reasons to use washers of which that I am completely ignorant.
That said, I look at this layout and have a bundle of questions about the groupings of washers, the materials, and the non flat ones.