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Quilotoa @lemmy.ca

4d ago

TIL winners of an essay-writing contest got their cheques on 1 inch thick steel plates.

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Steel Checks

The essay was on arc-welding. The plates were 1 foot by 2 foot and written with a welding torch.

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Either those weren't one inch thick or they didn't shoot through them with a firearm and made clean holes.
- Given the checks are lost I bet the thickness is just exaggerated, 30-06 will do 1/2" mild easily enough.
- Yeah, I wondered about that. It looks more drilled. Maybe they made up the shooting for a better story.
- Yeah, disregarding the ability of a bullet going through an inch of steel, that clean of a hole looks more like a drill.
  
  What is clean about them?

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