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Sorry to hear about grandpa.. Mines not been doing so good the last few years either.. he is in a retirement home now. He started a garbage company about 60 or so years ago "Stevens disposal" so yeah he collected a whole lotta stuff,lol.. I grew up with him "hes like my dad" and now I cant pass up a washer,screw,bolt or anything I see laying on the ground,lol.. I have coffee cans full of all sorts of stuff "all seperated too" there is maybe 6 or 7 of them in the basement along with ice cream buckets full etc..lol.. Even the wife is a hoarder,lol.. Thats why everyone comes to me when their stuff breaks,
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Thats funny,lol.. it happens though buddy.. lots of these things are made with a crappy pot metal and strip easily..
As for Adman.. Yeah that always seems to be how it goes,lol.. What I love is when the screw get almost in and starts getting tight and the dang head pops off.. Now I have a stupid screw stuck in the hole and cant finish getting it in or back out so I have to try drilling/tapping it out again.. I have done that recently and really makes me go nuts.. last year I did that a few times and was so mad I whipped my rifle across the yard,lol.. "not a great way to show the kids how to maintain my cool" but I just had enough and lost it.. I was trying to mount a scope rail on top my old R700. I busted it up bad enough to make it a parts rifle.. Dang tempers!
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Screw heads are so easy to strip it seems.. I could swear back in the day they made them better! I dont strip the threads on the screw very often,its the holes I strip. I went and got some tap set and what not to do the tasks. I most of the time its cause I am using the wron type screwdriver. A larger handle makes it easier to put more pressure and tighten more. So now I try to use smaller screwdrivers! Hard to over torque with them little black ones that come with the guns.
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