"Cheese grade Chinesium"
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This is the very embodiment of cheese grade.
Of course, they're from a dollar store set that was never intended to do any serious manual labor, but yeah... For durability, you'd be better off driving screws with a carefully carved carrot.
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For the record, I'm not disappointed... I got every dime out of them. Just reporting.
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China rocks though
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@smallbear I bought a box of 20 or more hardened #2’s for like $5. I think that may last my lifetime.
And you may ask yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
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@ForSweden Taiwan flag. Unless you're making some kind of comment on China-Taiwan politics?
@Highlander haha! Pass them onto following generations. Highlander's heirloom #2's.
...meh...
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@forsweden I mean, they supply me with sub-$5 expendable tools so there's certainly an argument to be made
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@vincentmalamute Taiwan is a China, just not maybe what people consider the China.
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@highlander @Shop-Teacher I haven't found any yet of any brand that are good for more than about three screws.
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@vincentmalamute @ForSweden Git 'im! (You're supposed to add, "Hope that helps...")
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@ranwhenparked yah, you'd get strong opinions from China and Taiwan on that.
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Never fails.Have a co-worker (who actually moved here from mainland China) always buying Chinese stuff over eBay and the like. Then it comes and he's very disappointment when it's a piece of junk. Shirts, tools, digital calipers... It's habitual, you name it and he's bought it and been disappointed.
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@vincentmalamute Taiwan is the remaining portion of the Republic of China that lost the mainland to communism after WWII. The rightful Chinese government, one may argue.
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Those things are almost impressively shitty. Like, you have to try to make something of such low quality these days.
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@rusty-vandura TWSS
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@daswauto Thank you, I'm aware. As well as of the differences in opinion of the status.
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@daswauto said in "Cheese grade Chinesium":
@vincentmalamute Taiwan is the remaining portion of the Republic of China that lost the mainland to communism after WWII. The rightful Chinese government, one may argue.
Just as some may argue that the british/norse/spanish/french are the rightful ruler of what is now the US. It always makes me laugh when one group claims complete sovereignty or 'right' to rule a place. History cares not for this type of thinking though.
Not intending to start a political conversation, more the fickleness of history is my point.
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@rusty-vandura said in "Cheese grade Chinesium":
@highlander @Shop-Teacher I haven't found any yet of any brand that are good for more than about three screws.
The impact rated Dewalt ones have been good to me, they come in a little puck of... a bunch. Eventually they will start to round over (if used with a drill) or explode (if on an impact) but they last a very long time before that.
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@mm54 I've got a container of Bosch impact ones that work pretty well. They'll eventually round too but last longer than most I've used before.
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@jminer said in "Cheese grade Chinesium":
Not intending to start a political conversation, more the fickleness of history is my point.
Fickleness of human nature or arrogance or entitlement, really. But yup, I've been trying not to say anything one way or the other.
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@jminer I don’t care to argue it either, I just thought I was explaining @ForSweden’s snark to @VincentMalamute, mistakenly thinking he was unaware of the distinction.
History is of course written by the victors. Claims of sovereignty or rightful rule beyond that are indeed folly. In that context though, the PRC-ROC situation is very interesting though, with their stances towards eachother and the acknowledgment of Taiwan internationally being such a political football in PRC’s push for their narrative to be the history that’s written.
/I may have been down the Wikipedia rabbit hole of Chinese history recently. Pretty sure I still have a few tabs from that open.
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@mm54 said in "Cheese grade Chinesium":
Eventually they will start to round over (if used with a drill) or explode (if on an impact)
These were used in... A screwdriver powered by nothing more than someone with no upper body strength and fussy wrists.Gotta make myself feel strong somehow
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@rider said in "Cheese grade Chinesium":
Those things are almost impressively shitty. Like, you have to try to make something of such low quality these days.
Well they've gotta do something with all that lead, now that they can't paint toys with it anymore. Might as well make screwdrivers out of it.
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It's looks like it was 3D printed and then chromed.
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@brickman said in "Cheese grade Chinesium":
It's looks like it was 3D printed and then chromed.
I'd actually love to see how they were made. And the specifics of the "metal" used.
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@rusty-vandura Milwaukee's last longer than average. They are very much consumable though.
