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Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

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Post by strken »

next_xibalba wrote: post #61
htk wrote: post #59

This brings me a lot of joy. I hope she gets the attention she deserves. I'm fascinated by people with deep and narrow interests.

I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but here goes: what attention does she deserve? I always wonder this with collectors. They simply gather things that were created through the ingenuity and know-how of others. This doesn't strike me as any more remarkable than the Funko Pop collector. Of course, I am NOT saying her hobby should be derided. More power to her. But it certainly doesn't strike me as somethi…

I don't think she "deserves attention", and in fact that's a very strange way to look at what she's doing, but odds are she's sharing her washer collection with other people because she enjoys collecting and talking about them. Saying it's about attention is both an insult and a logical stretch.

Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

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next_xibalba wrote: post #61
htk wrote: post #59

This brings me a lot of joy. I hope she gets the attention she deserves. I'm fascinated by people with deep and narrow interests.

I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but here goes: what attention does she deserve? I always wonder this with collectors. They simply gather things that were created through the ingenuity and know-how of others. This doesn't strike me as any more remarkable than the Funko Pop collector. Of course, I am NOT saying her hobby should be derided. More power to her. But it certainly doesn't strike me as somethi…

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Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

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Post by seemack »

next_xibalba wrote: post #61
htk wrote: post #59

This brings me a lot of joy. I hope she gets the attention she deserves. I'm fascinated by people with deep and narrow interests.

I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but here goes: what attention does she deserve? I always wonder this with collectors. They simply gather things that were created through the ingenuity and know-how of others. This doesn't strike me as any more remarkable than the Funko Pop collector. Of course, I am NOT saying her hobby should be derided. More power to her. But it certainly doesn't strike me as somethi…

No hate but saying that collectors simply gather things that others made is rather dismissive. It may certainly be true in some cases but it's also very possible that true, potentially even ingenious, effort was required on the part of the collector to build, maintain, and be knowledgeable about the collection.

Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

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Post by suzzer99 »

heisenzombie wrote: post #56
suzzer99 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, a split ring washer there is probably not doing much. Possibly even making things worse. Given it's more or less impossible to sufficiently torque a wing nut, there are actually not many great solutions... A dab of low strength loctite would definitely help, but that's one-time-only and you've got to carry the loctite around if you want to re-do the connection... At which point why not just carry a spanner inst…

I bought some split ring washers and they worked great. The nuts went from coming loose every few days on a long road trip, to not coming loose at all.

Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale

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Post by doe_eyes »

michaelt wrote: post #14
ximeng wrote: post #6

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…

The evolution of firearms is quite interesting because it reflects centuries of progress in chemistry, metallurgy, mechanical design, warfare, and so on. You can definitely tell a compelling story and keep going for a good while.

The problem is that collecting often devolves into obsessing over insignificant details, simply because there's more of them - and if you run out of, you can invent new ones. Look at people who collect coins or stamps and fawn over minor minting or printing defects, etc. The same goes for art collectors, comic collectors, you name it.

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