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Let's go on thwe washer standard
I was in the hardware store buying nuts and bolts the other day. I
noticed that a 1/2" washer cost 30 cents and a 3/8" washer costs 20 cents. I propose we do away with coinage and use wahers as change. Round to the nearest dime and use 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" washers as 10, 20, & 30 cent pieces. The govenment would save billions in minting costs and you would no longer have to go to the hadrware store to buy washers, saving gas. You guys would still have something to collect. There are cliped planchet washers! beekeep |
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Let's go on thwe washer standard
"beekeep" wrote in message ... I was in the hardware store buying nuts and bolts the other day. I noticed that a 1/2" washer cost 30 cents and a 3/8" washer costs 20 cents. I propose we do away with coinage and use wahers as change. Round to the nearest dime and use 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" washers as 10, 20, & 30 cent pieces. The govenment would save billions in minting costs and you would no longer have to go to the hadrware store to buy washers, saving gas. You guys would still have something to collect. There are cliped planchet washers! beekeep And while you're at the hardware store, we also could solve the dollar coin problem by replacing them with the knock-out disks on metal electrical junction boxes. With each box yielding 4-8 electribux disks, you could double your investment many times over on a wiring job. |
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Let's go on thwe washer standard
On Oct 15, 6:49*am, (beekeep) wrote:
I was in the hardware store buying nuts and bolts the other day. *I noticed that a 1/2" washer cost 30 cents and a 3/8" washer costs 20 cents. *I *propose we do away with coinage and use wahers as change. Round to the nearest dime and use 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" washers as 10, 20, & 30 cent pieces. *The govenment would save billions in minting costs and you would no longer have to go to the hadrware store to buy washers, saving gas. * You guys would still have something to collect. *There are cliped planchet washers! beekeep IIRC, the British West Africa 1/10¢, with associated hole, was actually used as a washer, as it's value was less than the cost of one. Go figure! |
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Let's go on thwe washer standard
"mazorj" wrote in message ... "beekeep" wrote in message ... I was in the hardware store buying nuts and bolts the other day. I noticed that a 1/2" washer cost 30 cents and a 3/8" washer costs 20 cents. I propose we do away with coinage and use wahers as change. Round to the nearest dime and use 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" washers as 10, 20, & 30 cent pieces. The govenment would save billions in minting costs and you would no longer have to go to the hadrware store to buy washers, saving gas. You guys would still have something to collect. There are cliped planchet washers! beekeep And while you're at the hardware store, we also could solve the dollar coin problem by replacing them with the knock-out disks on metal electrical junction boxes. With each box yielding 4-8 electribux disks, you could double your investment many times over on a wiring job. Of course the major TPGs would encase them and CAC would come along to add their imprimatur to those washers that were strong for their grade! |
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Let's go on thwe washer standard
"Some Guy" wrote in message ... "mazorj" wrote in message ... "beekeep" wrote in message ... I was in the hardware store buying nuts and bolts the other day. I noticed that a 1/2" washer cost 30 cents and a 3/8" washer costs 20 cents. I propose we do away with coinage and use wahers as change. Round to the nearest dime and use 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" washers as 10, 20, & 30 cent pieces. The govenment would save billions in minting costs and you would no longer have to go to the hadrware store to buy washers, saving gas. You guys would still have something to collect. There are cliped planchet washers! beekeep And while you're at the hardware store, we also could solve the dollar coin problem by replacing them with the knock-out disks on metal electrical junction boxes. With each box yielding 4-8 electribux disks, you could double your investment many times over on a wiring job. Of course the major TPGs would encase them and CAC would come along to add their imprimatur to those washers that were strong for their grade! Yep. And whizzing them to MS-70 with a buffer wheel would be absurdly easy. |
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Let's go on thwe washer standard
"Jud" wrote in message ... On Oct 15, 6:49 am, (beekeep) wrote: I was in the hardware store buying nuts and bolts the other day. I noticed that a 1/2" washer cost 30 cents and a 3/8" washer costs 20 cents. I propose we do away with coinage and use wahers as change. Round to the nearest dime and use 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" washers as 10, 20, & 30 cent pieces. The govenment would save billions in minting costs and you would no longer have to go to the hadrware store to buy washers, saving gas. You guys would still have something to collect. There are cliped planchet washers! beekeep - IIRC, the British West Africa 1/10¢, with associated hole, was - actually used as a washer, as it's value was less than the cost of - one. Go figure! Just another example of coin multitasking, like using a penny as an emergency replacement in the old electrical fuse boxes, or a quarter as a screwdriver. |
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Let's go on the washer standard (paise)
Having been to India 4x in the past 8 years, (my son was living/ working
there), I started collecting coins of India. Paise coins (still have a lot of them) in very small denominations. Some of my son's friends were getting me lots of them. They were cautioned about defacing them for a more practical usage...............drilling a hole in them and using them as washers. Much cheaper (even in India) to do that than to buy a washer. I also have a lot of Rupee coins as well. Lots more information by searching google. h |
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Let's go on thwe washer standard
In article , Jud wrote: IIRC, the British West Africa 1/10¢, with associated hole, was actually used as a washer, as it's value was less than the cost of one. Go figure! At Brookhaven National Laboratory, one of the research groups had a simple coffee vending machine that took dimes. They quit letting the other research groups use it when someone repeatedly used stainless steel washers in lieu of dimes. The kicker was, though, that those SS washers did cost more than a dime...but that was no help to the person who was paying for the coffee supplies out of their own pocket. -- "Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither." |
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