Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world ChihuahuaOfDoom @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Just a random 3" screw in a freshly opened box of 1-5/8"

I thought maybe I had accidentally put the screw in there myself but my only other box of this color I bought is 3-1/2"

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Every screw colony has a queen screw.
- Just like a can of beans
  
  There’s a queen bean?
free onion ring
- I knew I shouldn't have bought my screws at Burger King.
1-5/8"

Just American things
- ^ non-americans' favorite activity
  
  We can't help but have our gast flabbered every time we se these abstruse measurements
- Europeans when confronted with a fraction: 🤯
  
  That's a mixed fraction in a foreign units System instead of a number. (Screw sizes are integers here) Edit: we also use 1 1/3 instead of 1-1/3 in germany, making your way of writing it down more difficult to read.
Someone screwed up!
- Ha!
I know how frustrating this is as it's happend to me too. But at least it wasn't a 1 5/8" mixed in a box of 1 1/4". I've seen that too. In the worst way possible way.
- I've had one screw too long when attaching hinges and ran it through the side of a box I had just finished, was very disappointed.
  
  Yup. Cabinet installation here. Blew right through one into the other. Wouldn't have been so bad but the one had glass doors.
Just wait til you find the 1-1/2" screws
This is a perfect example of mildly interesting.
Plastic screws?
What coating is it?
- Metal deck screws with a coating so they don't rust. They're the colour of pressure treated lumber.
- It's a ceramic coating
  
  Could also be an epoxy coating from type I've used a couple times.
Damn blud got golden painted screws while us chumps are using plain old stainless ones .
- Stainless? Us REAL chumps are using rusty screws salvaged from the junkyard!
  
  Missing r/ frugal jerk right now .
Sounds like they had a screw loose
The guy she tells you not to worry about
Forbidden fusilli

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