/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2465489
I'd consider the implications of the industrial revolution and its consequences

Drill a penny and grind down the rim

>>2465489
Put the money back, Jerome .. Powell.

>>2465489
Put the money back, Jerome.

>>2465489
>I needed a washer the size of a dime, but they were $0.17 a piece.
Copper-nickel is different than steel.

>>2465534
not really, especially for a washer. Washers could be made from jello and still be fine, material doesn't matter at all

>>2465553
I mean that's a little extreme but yeah the composite of a dime should do fine for general usage.

>>2465555
Nice digits mate

That’s great I need a dime the size of a washer, wanna trade?

>>2465489
>What would you do in this situation?
I'd drive to the hardware store and buy a bunch of them. Like a whole box of them. If every time you find you need a fastener or whatever that you don't have, go buy way more of them than you need. Eventually you stop having situations where you need something and don't already have it in your shop/garage/shed. The end goal is racks of little bins or drawers full of every screw/bolt/nut/washer/pin/etc you're ever likely to need.

>>2465798
>The end goal is racks of little bins or drawers full of every screw/bolt/nut/washer/pin/etc you're ever likely to need.

Or just go to an estate sale and purchase one of these overbought and unused fastener collections for an infinitesimally small fraction of what it would cost to create even at wholesale.

>>2465805
>Or just go to an estate sale
this. every estate sale I've been to has had buckets of pristine grade 8 or better fasteners of every type imaginable and they ask maybe $3 for about 30 lbs of everything you will ever need. Around here there's an estate sale or two every week and they always pay off.

>>2465805
>>2465823

garage/estate sales are the closest thing our generation will ever get to treasure hunting. go loot a boomer's plastic castle, there is lots of treasurein there to be found.

>>2465489
Throw a penny on the lathe and save another 9 cents.

>>2465949
I haven't hit a good lick at an estate sale in like a year. About this time last year one of my teachers died and her already dead husband had run the local Western Auto years and years ago so he had beaucoup tools, Wizard, Duro, Indestro. I went on the last day and asked them if I could just fill up a box out of he shed out back for $5 and they said sure.

Whew lads, I racked TF up

>>2467359
I hope you're planning to collect the penny shavings for later reconstitution.

>>2467749
i'm sure he's going to add the shavings to his diet, help maximize his load

>>2465553

>>2465489
Drill a whole through your beer bottle caps. You are drinking beer while diy right?

>>2465489
>$0.17 a piece
File down a quarter.

>>2465489
Drill the coin. I miss silver coinage as you really can solder using it. It's just metal.

>>2465534
us cents from the ~2000 and so on are copper plated steel
op's photos are zink (belgian centime), aluminium (greek leptas) and copper nickel for the rest of them

>>2465553
acskhually depends on the application. the electrical differential can compromise the security of the fastener by enabling it to get zapped bye bye over time
>>2467785
>mfw no face but the totally bioavailable metal shavings are making my colon bleed

>>2468747
>metal shavings are making my colon bleed
shouldn't have taken them anally
oral application only

>>2468747

>>2465489
never EVER buy a SINGLE nut/washer/bolt/screw etc. ALWAYS BUY BULK!!!!

>>2465823
how do i find local estate sales?