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What is your greatest artistic achievement that doesn't fall under what most people would think of when they hear the word "art"? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I spent a whole April Fool's Day once larping as someone from the first century, which wouldn't be outside a mobile form of performance art.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was bored one day and cut the head off of a shoulder bolt, welded it on the other end, and chamfered the shoulder like a thread lead-in. This made it so the shoulder of the bolt was exposed and the threads were unusable due to being on the wrong end.
It was a bolt with all the features of any other bolt but was ultimately useless. For whatever reason it just spoke to me and gave me art display vibes.

I might still have it somewhere...
Nope, can't find it.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that just make it a left hand thread? You just gotta find the right hole to screw.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, for two reasons:

It was a shoulder bolt—meaning the section of the shaft near the head has no threads.
An upside down bolt has the same thread pitch as the right-side-up bolt. Reverse threads have to be cut in reverse.

Shoulder bolt example:
https://www.bolts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/2378740c1547d8e0150767e1a99152d2/S/S/SSSMCSC08080-0.jpg

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, that's even funnier.