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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 86 points 3 weeks ago

Every screw colony has a queen screw.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The Queen Bean is an excellent name for a coffee shop.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

In Charlotte

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

I knew I shouldn't have bought my screws at Burger King.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

1-5/8"

Just American things

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

^ non-americans' favorite activity

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

We can't help but have our gast flabbered every time we se these abstruse measurements

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Europeans when confronted with a fraction: 🤯

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Both are used and acceptable ways to write it in the US.

Also, are your screw size integers based on any units at all? If so it's just another metric vs standard argument, and if not, it's even less intuitive than even inches, because it's just a case where one just needs to already know and be familiar with that sizing system, like shoe sizes or something.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yup. Cabinet installation here. Blew right through one into the other. Wouldn't have been so bad but the one had glass doors.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Just wait til you find the 1-1/2" screws

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is a perfect example of mildly interesting.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Plastic screws?
What coating is it?

[-] DannyBoy 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Metal deck screws with a coating so they don't rust. They're the colour of pressure treated lumber.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Zipitydew 10 points 3 weeks ago

Could also be an epoxy coating from type I've used a couple times.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Damn blud got golden painted screws while us chumps are using plain old stainless ones .

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Stainless? Us REAL chumps are using rusty screws salvaged from the junkyard!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Missing r/ frugal jerk right now .

[-] RedC 4 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like they had a screw loose

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The guy she tells you not to worry about

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Forbidden fusilli

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