• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    9 months ago

    When repairing my car I snapped a bolt in an awkward place. This really sucked.

    Worse, so many of the “guy in a garage” youtubers were like “Yeah luckily I already have the engine block out…”

    Or “Grab your handy dandy lathe…”

    “Super easy you guys, just get your welding torch…”

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      9 months ago

      Welder isn’t too crazy of a tool. It’s usually more like, get your 3d printer AND your welder AND your CNC AND your drill press AND your table saw plus a million other hyper specific gadgets.

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        9 months ago

        Who doesn’t have an edm cutting machine and a metal sintering 3d printer in the cupboard under the stairs?

        I’m sure you can get both in a bundle on wish for 14.99

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      9 months ago

      I mean if you have space for them, those are obviously good tools to save up for.

      When I bought a welder I started noticing all these shitty fixes I had done that would be so much better welded. It paid itself off in the first week.