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Let's just keep going off this hypothetical, it would still be a better idea to have working screwdrivers. All the steps you outlined risk damaging the part yo

Let's just keep going off this hypothetical, it would still be a better idea to have working screwdrivers. All the steps you outlined risk damaging the part you're working on, or wasting time. Let's just say you only value your time as a mechanic at $30 an hour if getting that screw out takes you another 20 or 30 minutes, you would have been better off buying a $5 screw bit

peoplefromibiza 5y ago
not hypothetically speaking, it takes a couple of minutes but what the original post said it's not that you shouldn't buy a new screwdriver, but that it you know something will break, you learn how to fix it. if your brand new screwdriver ends up stripping that screw anyway and you don't know what to do next because you thought that it would never happen using a working screwdriver, well. you're screwed :) sometimes there are no good solutions, only bad solutions that's what keep things working. if everyone believed that spit and bailing wire was a no go, because they are bad solutions and there's a better one - there always is - (i.e. fixing the root cause, after having identified it) there would be no internet as we know it today.