This reminds me of something a woodworking teacher said; “Learning the trade in the years directly following the war (WWII, this gent is British and in his 70’s) there were shortages on everything, wood, nails, etc. So when metal washers started costing more than a penny, we just drilled the pennies and used those as washers. And that was that...”
This reminds me of something a woodworking teacher said; “Learning the trade in the years directly following the war (WWII, this gent is British and in his 70’s) there were shortages on everything, wood, nails, etc. So when metal washers started costing more than a penny, we just drilled the pennies and used those as washers. And that was that...”
Still do sometimes. Pennies are squishy they don't fuck up your parts
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Huh, finally a reason to keep pennies around