If 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.
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Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
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#92This 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…
Because there are people who are willing to spend an inordinate amount of time delving deeply into a hobby, and these people are also the personalities who will chime up in HN one day to point out your hobby code has (1) a potential optimization, or (2) a major bug, or (3) is really cool and they would like to use it one day in one of said hobbies.
If there's anything I've learnt, appreciate the wisdom of these collectors, whether to appreciate the simple design of a flower, or the esoteric nature of a highly complicated mechanical computer.
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
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#94If 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.
I suspect there will be a bunch of washer field engineers, and some washer CTOs.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least by NASA, spring washers have been declared mostly useless. I'm not an expert on bolt fasteners, but I personally haven't seen a spring washer in quite a while. So I guess she just knows her washers and doesn't care about the functionless ones.
Nylocks and Loctite killed the spring washer.
I'm using these now:
https://www.nord-lock.com/globalassets/mediavalet/web-assets...
... much better than a spring washer.
See also:
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I find inverted jenny iconic:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/US_Airma...
Re: Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
#97Reminds 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.
I feel hardware stores went the opposite direction.
They show the popular, common things.
I sort of miss stores before the internet. You would get large stores that carried everything, so if you went there for one thing, you would find all the other stuff in the middle.
For instance, hardware stores before home depot/lowes usually had plumbing for all the homes in town, even the really old ones. Lots more brass than plastic.
Nowadays it's like trying to buy a computer at best buy.
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#98She needs a set of hemispherical washers to help complete the set. You use when the opposite faces of a part aren't quite parallel.
There are also nifty springy ones you use in bus bars in order to keep the clamping force equal through a range of temperatures, because of the differential in heat expansion between copper and steel.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Might have always worked, but had cracked solder connections originally.
Filled in the solder cracks with beer residue. Wonder what its resistance is?
I guess the units would be, "ohms per pint per week".
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#100"These are so my kinda humans."
Pretty girls? Sure.