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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.
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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.
Reminds 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…
Reminds 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: https://www.hammermuseum.org/
Somebody knows how to have fun lol
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.
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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.
Lock washers ftw. Simplest design ever, yet perform such a crucial service.