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submitted 1 month 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 1 month ago

Every screw colony has a queen screw.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In Charlotte

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

1-5/8"

Just American things

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

^ non-americans' favorite activity

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Europeans when confronted with a fraction: 🤯

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is a perfect example of mildly interesting.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Plastic screws?
What coating is it?

[-] DannyBoy 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[-] Zipitydew 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Missing r/ frugal jerk right now .

[-] RedC 4 points 1 month ago

Sounds like they had a screw loose

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The guy she tells you not to worry about

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Forbidden fusilli

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