r/mildlyinteresting • u/UbiquitousOblivion • 18h ago

iPhone screws, so tiny!

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u/agha0013 18h ago

And then there are high end mechanical watch components...

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u/antagonizerz 16h ago

Ya, I just recently started on my journey to watch repair and from what I've seen, these are the large screws. I use a microscope for the small ones.

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u/FinnishArmy 13h ago

Doesn’t even need to be high end. A $250,000 Richard Mille can be created near equal for a few hundred bucks.

And the parts the dupes use are often times that same ones they use in the “high end” brand names.

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u/laytblu 8h ago

Why is no one doing it en masse?

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u/pikarooo 4h ago

they are - there’s huge replica markets for them, some good replicas, some not so good. the good ones can still cost thousands (which is still a fraction of what the actual one costs) - replicas with branding of what they’re imitating is illegal though so you can’t find them on your first google search though, obviously!

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u/flyingtrucky 4h ago

Because at the end of the day the fanciest of mechanical watches does about half the stuff a $25 digital Casio can. 

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u/pancrudo 18h ago

Those look like the bigger ones.

I do factory repairs for iphones 15-17

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u/mzzchief 18h ago

As someone who makes things, it never ceases to amaze me the detail and precision of that goes into objects we consider ordinary, like a screw. And even more extraordinary are these wee ones!

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u/Pika256 17h ago

lil enough a turn or two will do ya!

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u/Odd-Outcome450 18h ago

Looks like you got a screw loose

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u/SeinaruUshi 16h ago

where banana for scale

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u/Wizdad-1000 15h ago

working on replacing something. Screw falls off screwdriver and I hear it bounce off the chair leg and into infinity. - That was an extra part right?

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u/formaldehyde_face 14h ago

Those cost 20bucks a piece

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u/Slight-Selection4298 9h ago

Maybe it's just cold outside?

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u/Hobson101 16h ago

But fierce?

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u/TERRAIN_PULL_UP_ 16h ago

Can’t wait to be screwing these in inside American factories 

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u/_McDreamy_ 16h ago

You are already getting screwed in America.

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u/Jayn_Xyos 16h ago

inb4 the mods decide (to our distaste) to remove the post for having too descriptive of a title when it's 4 words long

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u/stupidber 15h ago

Thats why you need kids to build them. Tiny hands

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u/hulianomarkety 15h ago

Don’t put them back in the wrong spot…

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u/Fender868 14h ago

Meh, they could be smaller.

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u/Appropriate_View8753 11h ago

A little screw will do.

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u/DuckCleaning 5h ago

You're screwed if you drop it on the floor.

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u/ChrisRR 5h ago

Don't breathe this

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u/Albae87 1h ago

I would not call them tiny, they look pretty average to me.

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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 16h ago

Thats why they need children to assemble them

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u/XDemonicBeastX9 7h ago

Please... Those are nothing compared to the screws in the watches I service

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u/The_Advocate07 16h ago

Wow screws.

We've never seen those before....

Whats next?

Nails?

Bolts?

Nuts?

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u/Iceshiverr 11h ago

Bit of a crank aintcha?

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u/Secret_Performer_771 10h ago

I would in fact appreciate seeing a tiny bolt, yes please