Curious to know what her sorting logic was to make that periodic table of washers.
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
#32There'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)
The drice spacers make me think of my favourite stick of RAM.
In the 90s, I repaired Commodore Amigas, and I do mean repaired. Back then you'd de/solder replace chips, caps, anything borked on a motherboard.
In one case, it wasn't the motherboard, it was a stick of RAM that seemed borked. Wouldn't even boot with it in place, so I swapped it for a new stick, problem solved.
One day I was opening boxes of product, and my utility knife was MIA. Seeing as it was dead RAM, and it was sitting on the table, I used it to cut the tape on the box. It became my new box opener.
This went on for months, with hundreds of boxes cut open.
Typically I'd just leave it my pocket. All day, home to work, just hanging out in my pocket.
One day at home I needed the pocket space, and threw it on a table. It sat there for months, got wet (spilled beer, drinks), was looked at, touched by 100 people, and then I moved.
Months later, in another city, I had RAM die in my machine. So I dug it out and tried it, and it worked! And I proceeded to use it for another few years in that machine.
Was I mistaken in thinking the RAM was dead? Did the abuse fix it? Either way, that was strong RAM.
Powerful RAM. My favourite RAM.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yep, that is the building: https://pearlgallerymaine.com/
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#34Lock washers ftw. Simplest design ever, yet perform such a crucial service.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#35If 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.
The intersection will most likely only contain this woman.
No, I think it will also include a smattering of Englishmen, a score of Germans and (maybe) a guy with a mechanical engineering degree who dedicated his career to washers.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#36Lock washers ftw. Simplest design ever, yet perform such a crucial service.
but, not the service of enlarging the contact surface of the bolt or screw head.
Actually, they only perform a tiny fraction of the crucial services performed by washers and can be replaced by loctite in almost all situations, so, I'd contend they are the most worthless of washers.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I go shopping for, like, a pair of tweezers, and for some reason come out the other end with a kit of 27 different kinds of tweezers for $19.97. And then I stare at them for an hour and tweeze stuff in all the various ways. Then pick one and put it in the desk drawer, and all the others go in a baggie in a box marked "small tools". And every once in a while I think contentedly about how rich I am in tweezers.
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#38Reminds 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.
We found a museum in Haines, AK that contained only hammers--the proprietor had stories to go with many of them. If you stopped to look at any given hammer for more than a second he'd tell you not just a history but an entertaining history of it. Highly recommended:
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#39Lock washers ftw. Simplest design ever, yet perform such a crucial service.
but, not the service of enlarging the contact surface of the bolt or screw head. Actually, they only perform a tiny fraction of the crucial services performed by washers and can be replaced by loctite in almost all situations, so, I'd contend they are the most worthless of washers.
But you don't always need more surface area, just something you don't want to wiggle loose, like say your cargo carrier on top of your car that's attached with hand wingnuts. I don't have enough experience with loctite to know if I want to spray it on that.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#40Shoulda teamed up with the umbrella cover museum: https://www.umbrellacovermuseum.org/
Right across the water on Peaks!