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    Turning a bolt with another bolt - GIF

    Turning a bolt with another bolt. Not exactly life-changing usefulness here, but still clever, and self-referentiality is very internet-trendy right now. I guess the implication of the GIF is that a correctly-sized wrench is unavailable, but a perfectly-sized bolt is not?

    If the wrench used here actually were the correct size to turn the initial bolt, this would be a perfect internet DIY parody.




    Reminds me of this drill bit sharpening trick:


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    Actually, they had a great chance that the pitch of the screw allowed to get the nut faces aligned with the screw head faces in tightened position, otherwise I guess it would not grip ...

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    Well, in the interests of pedantry, neither are bolts. West of the Atlantic they are known as cap screws, East of the Atlantic, they are known as set screws...
    Either way, they are fully threaded to the head. Just saying... :-)



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