What is this?

[OhZark Biddies]

to check sizes?

Yep, they're thread checkers for determining thread size.... I don't find them to be that useful that often, but every now and again, when you loose a nut or bolt that is some odd size they save the day... particularly on machinery where you can't just take it in to the hardware store and check size there.

And I have used them to sort out misc hardware too.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Okay here's another... I just ran across these in the miscellaneous whatzadoodles bin, when I was getting a picture of those nuts and bolts... the twist is I'm drawing a blank on their actual use at the moment

 

[Molpet]

Okay here's another... I just ran across these in the miscellaneous whatzadoodles bin, when I was getting a picture of those nuts and bolts... the twist is I'm drawing a blank on their actual use at the moment

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holds screen or window in my storm door

 

[CarpCharacin]

Yep, they're thread checkers for determining thread size.... I don't find them to be that useful that often, but every now and again, when you loose a nut or bolt that is some odd size they save the day... particularly on machinery where you can't just take it in to the hardware store and check size there.

And I have used them to sort out misc hardware too.

My first guess was to check sizes

 

[OhZark Biddies]

holds screen or window in my storm door

ahhh, that's right... now if you can tell me why I kept them after I upgraded our storm door to one that has a built in screen that would be helpful too

 

[Molpet]

ahhh, that's right... now if you can tell me why I kept them after I upgraded our storm door that would be helpful too

because you are going to repurpose them silly

 

[OhZark Biddies]

because you are going to repurpose them silly

lol, but am I?... am I really ever?

I've got so much of that kind of hardware that I've taken off things over the years, that I've just about come to the conclusion I need to stop doing that... but once in while it bails me out of a jam and I don't have to run to town... so it keeps me going... like a gambler that wins one night after loosing the previous 100!

 

[Molpet]

lol, but am I?... am I really ever?

I've got so much of that kind of hardware that I've taken off things over the years, that I've just about come to the conclusion I need to stop doing that... but once in while it bails me out of a jam and I don't have to run to town... so it keeps me going... like a gambler that wins one night after loosing the previous 100!

yep same here, but hoarding is cheaper than gambling

everytime I get on a pitching spree a month or so later I wish I had one of the items I previously got rid of
of course I can't find anything because I have toooooooo many treasures that I might need one day

 

[CarpCharacin]

I have something that is hard to guess that I will post later today

 

[OhZark Biddies]

yep same here, but hoarding is cheaper than gambling

everytime I get on a pitching spree a month or so later I wish I had one of the items I previously got rid of
of course I can't find anything because I have toooooooo many treasures that I might need one day

hmmm, I never thought about it before... I wonder if gambling and hoarding are opposite sides of the same dysfunction, meaning I wonder if hoarders are seldom gamblers and gamblers seldom hoarders?

Yeah, that finding thing issue... I'm starting to be one of those people with two of every tool, because I have to buy another when I can't find the first.... my neighbor down the road a piece is worse because he had two of everything then he inherited all of his dad's stuff, who had two of everything... so now he has 4 of everything!