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  • If you’re doing this type of stuff, I’m assuming you have some kind of dissolvable glue.

    Protein based wood glue stops being glue if you add vinegar for example.

    So use wood glue to glue a nut to domed back part of the bolt, or just throw a big glob all over the blot and saw handle.

    Obviously make sure youve thrown a bunch of anti-seize on the other side first. This will stop it from spinning, but might not be enough to break it loose.

    You could also try rigging something up with clamps and a piece of stuff rubber against the domed bolt to keep it pressed up against the inside of the handle.

    But honestly?

    Carriage bolts fucking suck, and you can just drill it out and find an era appropriate replacement. I grew up working on classic cars that always used them, and it’s worth looking around to see if you can just buy a dozen to keep on hand. Depending on how old the saws are, I doubt they’re original anyways.




  • Damn, that shits crazy:

    The jury was then subsequently kept for three days without “meat, drink, fire and tobacco” to force it to bring in a guilty verdict. When it failed to do so, the judge ended the trial. As punishment, the judge ordered the jurors imprisoned until they paid a fine to the court.[35]

    Four jurors refused to pay the fine, and after several months, Bushell sought a writ of habeas corpus. Chief Justice Vaughan, sitting on the Court of Common Pleas, discharged the writ, released them, called the power to punish a jury “absurd” and forbade judges from punishing jurors for returning a verdict the judge disagreed with

    No wonder that dude founded Pennsylvania


  • I tried googling if you all have jury nullification, but just got AI slop and stuff about America…

    The most I know about the UK legal system is the cool wigs, and what I learned from Sherlock and Misfits.

    But I’d assume a jury can do whatever they want. As long as you’re not self snitching, you don’t have to explain anything. And we’re talking about government support of an ongoing genocide, it’s hard to expect jurours to solely follow the letter of the law.

    Like I said tho, I’m completely ignorant of your justice system. Was Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret accurate by any chance?




  • It’s so weird the appendix isn’t the go to example instead of whiteness and milk drinking…

    Up until a few hundred years ago it was vital as a reserve for gut bacteria when everyone was always getting dysentery and diarrhea. It still burst occasionally but it was a net positive. People without one likely died before it would have burst.

    Then we got indoor plumbing and food safety, we stopped needing it so much which changed the evolutionary pressure. People without one never had it burst, so it flipped.

    Then we discovered how to do an appendectomy ~300 years ago, and removed all the evolutionary pressure.

    So it’ll stay a random percent where some people do and some don’t.

    But everybody always wants to talk about whiteness and milk drinking