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[–] 17 points 2 days ago (1 child)

And yet somehow, I save every one of those things and STILL can't find a single one when I need it!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Someday I learn to melt and work with metal and then all those hex are going to be used for good.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Nope. That steel isn't even good for scrap Ford pickup bumpers. It's made with whatever the Chinese foundry sweeps up at the end of the day.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Sounds like winwin for somebody who does now how to use a foundry / smelt :D

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Not really. It's mystery metal. I have my suspicions it's the Chinese equivalent to 303 stainless at beast or possibly worse. It's very gummy to machine. I once tried to machine some little machine screws out of one of those wrenches for a model steam engine I was building. I could barely make usable threads from it despite trying HSS tooling and carbide tooling. It was so gummy that the threads would tear as I tried cutting them. Even a brand new $30 #4-40 Greenlee die struggled forming useable but still nor clean threads.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Why, pray tell, does an Allen key need to be plastic wrapped? For freshness?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    To stave off water damage and rusting when shipping to humid areas.

    One dock strike or lost piece of paperwork and it could sit in an unair-conditioned container long enough for the cardboard to disintegrate.

    It is an awful waste of plastic, but I expect the return rate for rusted tools 'damaging' fasteners is high enough that financially it makes sense for the company

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    This reminds me, I just bought a new clipper and it came fully wrapped in cardboard and paper. Not a single sliver of plastic. The brand was "babyliss" (reversed "name and shame" or you might call it free advertising)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Hey you never know.

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    i literally assembled a free hex set from this. i actually use them every once in a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    I’ve got a small bin going of all the small tools that come with things I buy. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it when it’s full, maybe make a little free library of them?

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