• dukeofdummies@lemmy.world
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      Oh my god we just bought a house and I feel this too much.

      The previous owners will constantly shift between roberts, phillips, hex, and flathead within the exact same sheet rock wall.

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    I work in a manufacturing environment and keep all the weird anomalies that turn up in our hardware inventory. I have screws and carriage bolts with either half-formed or non-existent threads, keps nuts without the built-in washer, fiberlock nuts without the nylon, washers that didn’t get the center hole stamped through all the way, screws with off-center heads, Phillips screws with a ghost of where the Phillips hole should be, zinc-plated screws that only got half-dipped, a pop rivet that had the pin pressed cross-wise through the shank, and my favorite piece is a ball bearing that was packaged with a bee nestled inside the hole.

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    you know they did that shit on purpose because they hate you. you should cause a scene, or everyone will know you let them win. pls report back.

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        Your pleasure, is My pleasure. Years ago, helping a friend clear out the house, and found a nearly full box of Phillips company Screws. It was at that point that I realized, that tool we all have one of is a PhillipsScrew driver, not a Phillips Screwdriver, or perhaps more accurately a PhillipsScrew screwdriver, if you will.

  • Do you really think they did this out of laziness?

    They didn’t even bother to put threads on the one screw

    Reads like you’re saying that but really it’s likely a mistaken in manufacturing and wasn’t picked up by quality control.

    I like to exercise positive intent with these things.

  • fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net
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    I tried to install a luggage rack on my car and the screw holes for the cover plates weren’t tapped, I feel your pain. Didn’t matter though because the cover plates didn’t align anyways so just left them off instead of tapping the holes myself