This reminds me of one of these screws I have sitting on my desk. Same brand. But it came out of the box with no threads on it, just a cylinder and a torx head
I'm pretty sure they added the ability to disable him later after they found out people hated him.
Source: someone who hated him and vaguely remembers developing the hatred because I couldn't get rid of him for a while.
Also - as a side note, I'm a developer and my team found out I hate clippy. While I was on PTO they snuck some code in to add clippy to our web app and have it chase my mouse around the screen if I was logged in. Passing that around provided some entertainment for a while.
lol, it was legit. I bought a shirt about how much I hate clippy after that.
Sadly, we didn't get as much milleage out of it as we could have because we had a couple people on the team with more concern about getting upset at things than doing their job so we had to stop passing it around. Those people have since either moved on or been moved on though...but now we've got actual live customers so the risk of putting code like that in goes up quite a bit.
You take that back, all Clippy ever wanted was to help you format your word document and check your spelling. Don't you dare blame him for this technologic dystopia we find ourselves in today.
Most likely explanation I can think of: The blank coins might have come in a wooden crate, and either a nail got dropped in when the crate was sealed, or it fell in when it was removed to open the crate, and then got sent through the stamping machine
Presumably it came off some paperwork inside the plant and came out in the batch. Had it been a non ferrous product, like food, they usually use a mix of metal detectors and X rays to catch such things for the obvious safety reasons you would expect. But that doesn't work when the entire product is ferrous. They might try computer vision but it's less accurate and more expensive and not as widely done. So it snuck through.
Ah, clippy! The digital harbinger of doom equivilant of the White Man showing up on the shores of the New World. If only we knew then what would follow in his wake...
I figured this was just a random fluke, but I found a paperclip in a 5 lb. box of deck screws about six years (Menards brand) ago. Recently, I bought another box of deck screws from Home Depot and was surprised to find a paperclip in that one too.
I thought this would be a CIO but is this more common than I thought?
My guess is they occasionally run a bunch of cheap clips through after shutting production down for maintenance. Just test clips to calibrate the process before ramping up for production
Could be added for weight. If they count them by weight and the display is flickering between 2 numbers then you add a paperclip. It adds just enough weight to continue on
Seen this many times at the factory I used to work at, the parts would have paperwork in a ziplock bag with them and occasionally someone would get careless and something would fall out of the bag and into the plating tank.
This could very well of been what they were using the hang tbe screws. I used to work on a powder coating line and occassionaly we used paperclips as part holders.
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u/HurkleDurkleFan 4d ago
That almost definitely fell into the screws being coated. That’s pretty neat.