• ApeNo1@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Rereads Tesla’s mission statement.

    “Accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”

    Stares at 3 ton lump of stainless steel parked in driveway.

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      As a machinist and welder, I would strongly prefer an actual 6000 lb lump of stainless over a cybertruck. I can actually use stainless steel to make things.

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        I’ve never worked with stainless, but I hear that it’s a pain in the ass. And then, if you have no coating on it, it still stains from touching all sorts of shit.

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          It’s called stainLESS, not stainFREE. The Delorean came with instructions on how to clean it so it didn’t rust.

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            It depends on the grade of stainless actually. I’ve never run into “proprietary 30X stainless” but I have plenty of experience with 304, 308, 309, and 316. 309 can rust on you, but I’ve never seen 316 rust outside of ludicrously corrosive environments.

            I have what’s known in the industry as “magic piss fingers”. What that means is that I am a salty, sweaty man who can rust just about anything rustable simply by touching it with my bare hand. That being said, I haven’t managed to get a single speck of rust on my welded 316 hammer in 12 years of using it.

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                Nickel. It provides both corrosion resistance and increased ductility which makes the material more likely to bend before breaking. I like using it to weld onto busted taps to try to back them out because the weld will flex a little bit instead of just snapping off.

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      Owned by a man that is trying to elect Donald Trump, who is famously opposed to renewable energy.