Ran out of washers so improvised. Cost me 4p

    by OJP83

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    1. Sure hope it’s not in a humid area, or you’re about to get a lesson about galvanic corrosion.

    2. thispartyrules on

      I decorated a leather punk jacket using those rivet in dog collar spikes and used pennies for washers so the spikes would stand up straight. I had a $10 Harbor Freight metal punch to punch the holes. I forget how many spikes I had in it but the thing weighed like 10 lbs. when I was done, it was ridiculous.

      Unfortunately don’t have pictures.

      Other punks I knew would use #5 or #6 finishing washers for the spikes, these were the more common kind that screw in place, they work really well and it’s much less labor intensive

    3. I do metal detecting as a hobby. We sometimes find “large cent” pennies (US) that were used for that same purpose back in the 1805s! Nothing is new under the sun.

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