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CSB3: When A Stripped Bolt Adds 14 Hours To A Job

aspro_gti

Autocross Champion
Location
Austin, TX
Car(s)
2012 K04 GTI
I let my buddy borrow my drill and drill bits last week so he could do some things around his house.

Decided to start getting some work done on the new-to-me exploder and the first screw I tried to remove was fully rounded. Metal started to twist when I used my dremel to cut a groove into the top and tried to back it out via flathead.

Now i gotta go get my drill bits back to get this bolt out.

The rule still stands, you don't need a tool until after you let someone else borrow it.
How's Gotham Chicago?
You'll be proud that I overhauled my CV.
 

GolNat

Autocross Champion
Location
Delaware
Car(s)
13 GTI & 98 Prelude
I let my buddy borrow my drill and drill bits last week so he could do some things around his house.

Decided to start getting some work done on the new-to-me exploder and the first screw I tried to remove was fully rounded. Metal started to twist when I used my dremel to cut a groove into the top and tried to back it out via flathead.

Now i gotta go get my drill bits back to get this bolt out.

The rule still stands, you don't need a tool until after you let someone else borrow it.

How does he own a house and not have a drill!?! That should come with the keys to the front door.
 

GolNat

Autocross Champion
Location
Delaware
Car(s)
13 GTI & 98 Prelude
Also why don’t you have 2 drills or am I the weird one with multiple.
 

jay745

What Would Glenn Danzig Do
Location
Slightly Outside Chicago
Car(s)
Mk6 racecar, Tacoma
I hate borrowing shit to people. WTF is wrong with people not returning shit after they borrow it??!? Any time I have to borrow something it gets returned right after I'm done. Annoying as shit having to ask for your stuff back.

I lent my brake caliper tool to someone a month ago and they haven't reached out to me about returning it.
 

Acadia18

Autocross Champion
Location
dang
Car(s)
yo
I hate borrowing shit to people. WTF is wrong with people not returning shit after they borrow it??!? Any time I have to borrow something it gets returned right after I'm done. Annoying as shit having to ask for your stuff back.

I lent my brake caliper tool to someone a month ago and they haven't reached out to me about returning it.

I let my next door neighbor borrow my polesaw once. Never got it back. Had to go out and buy a new one next time I needed it.
 

Nineeightyone

Autocross Champion
Location
Pennsylvania
Car(s)
Scooty Puff Jr
Gonna try to put the MX3 back together and see if I actually fixed it. I put the head back on it, so now it's just the rest of reassembly and timing. Shouldn't be too awful, and tbh it's not even tense because if it doesn't run it's just gonna get scrapped

but I need to buy more stuff for the GTI :x so many moving parts at once
 

GolNat

Autocross Champion
Location
Delaware
Car(s)
13 GTI & 98 Prelude
I’m a millennial, but I don’t like borrowing stuff from people. One time use sure but it will be retuned immediately.
 

Acadia18

Autocross Champion
Location
dang
Car(s)
yo

riceburner

Autocross Champion
Location
nice try PPNT
Car(s)
MK1 Tiguan
I hate borrowing shit to people. WTF is wrong with people not returning shit after they borrow it??!? Any time I have to borrow something it gets returned right after I'm done. Annoying as shit having to ask for your stuff back.

I lent my brake caliper tool to someone a month ago and they haven't reached out to me about returning it.
ill let you borrow mine if you bring it back next day
 

riceburner

Autocross Champion
Location
nice try PPNT
Car(s)
MK1 Tiguan

riceburner

Autocross Champion
Location
nice try PPNT
Car(s)
MK1 Tiguan
put better - if i only shit once per shift, 5 days a week, (which lets be honest...) i've been paid to take approx 4,680 shits.
working that number to 1/2 hour per 'shitft', and a median hourly rate over the last 18 years of working to $20, i may have made some $46,800 shitting.

damn could have shit out a mk8r.... if i didn't flush all my money down the toilet too.
 
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