[HN Gopher] Woman set up a table to share her collection of wash...
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Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing
was for sale
Author : mooreds
Score : 82 points
Date : 2024-06-09 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| csours wrote:
| Reminds me of Mise en Place or Knolling
| calrain wrote:
| The world is a wonderful place
| daft_pink wrote:
| This is amazing
| timcobb wrote:
| I wish there was video
| ximeng wrote:
| Reminds me of this tool museum in Troyes, France:
| https://www.discoverfranceandspain.com/maison-de-loutil-et-d...
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| It is filled with hundreds of slight variants of different tools.
| mooreds wrote:
| I honestly feel that way every time I walk into the hardware
| store.
| michaelt wrote:
| A few years back I found a youtube channel about unusual guns.
|
| And it was fascinating because they had all these zany, really
| distinctive guns like four-barrelled shotguns and revolver-
| rifles.
|
| Unfortunately they ran out of such weapons pretty quickly and
| the channel devolved into a lot of "this gun that looks and
| works just like every other AK-47 is interesting because it was
| made in Hungary, and most Hungarian AKs received an upgrade but
| this one didn't" which I personally felt was a bit of a
| snoozefest.
|
| But if you're interested in seeing a great many very minor
| variants of mundane items, you might like gun history.
| sambeau wrote:
| <3
| nknealk wrote:
| There's a hammer museum in Haines Alaska with similar vibes.
| Countless different types of hammers.
|
| https://www.hammermuseum.org
| usernamed7 wrote:
| This is so cool! We need more of this in the world. I don't have
| any interest in washers, but if her interest is more than
| superficial I'm sure she could make them interesting. I would
| definitely chat her up and see what listen to what she has to
| say. She'd also be good to do an AMA.
| Duanemclemore wrote:
| While the physical form of this is wonderful, the thing I would
| really want to do is sit down with her and discuss the
| characteristics and uses of each washer.
| peppertree wrote:
| If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and
| people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the
| intersection is going to be extremely small.
| lqet wrote:
| The intersection will most likely only contain this woman.
| zeristor wrote:
| Do you mean like to overlapping washers?
| em-bee wrote:
| this is part of the first friday art walk happening every month
| in portland. i can imagine that while this display is still
| unusual in that context, a lot more people are going to be out
| looking for interesting stuff, and i'd like to think that at
| least once in a while an interesting conversation will happen.
| maybe someone collecting screws or nuts or even offers to add
| to the collection or someone working with these with their own
| stories to tell.
| Duanemclemore wrote:
| What do you think are the odds she's on HN?
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| If not... could we get her to join and do a Show HN? Or even an
| AMA?
|
| Because I'd tune in.
| dustfinger wrote:
| Can anyone identify the object on the table to her right?
| skeletal88 wrote:
| It is a "third hand", device used when soldering electronics
| and such.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helping_hand_(tool)
| starry_dynamo wrote:
| Third hand and magnifying glass. I suppose to get a closer look
| at them.
| rightbyte wrote:
| I am surprised she don't display any spring washers (there are
| maybe two?). They can look quite fancy. Plain washers get old
| quickly I guess when you got a set of outer to inner diameter
| ratios.
| Luc wrote:
| There's some interesting shaped ones in the pile closest to her,
| not really washers I think. I wonder how they were
| collected/selected - picked up from the streets perhaps?
|
| (I have an extensive collection of hard drive platter spacers)
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