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  • Make car out of stainless steel
  • Glue it together
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Make sure that you use cheap stainless steel, otherwise it won’t rust and leave a stressed patina look.

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For god’s sake, don’t expose it to water, though. I mean, what sort of steel is this? Steel for Rust programmers?

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Fun fact: it has a car wash mode. It actually will kill the monstrosity by getting it wet.

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Glue is pretty strong and can work well. If you do it right.

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“3M’s fancy glue is too expensive.”

“So we switch to Elmer’s?”

“Also too expensive. Just mix some flour and water together for paste.”

“But s…”

“Don’t worry, we already have a plan to stop Elon from eating it.”

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“We just need horses.”

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Oh, did an airline stewardess walk by?

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We call them flight attendants these days, but if this is an Airplane reference, I endorse it.

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Tesla is the only car company on earth that has every single existing model subject to a recall.

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Tesla is the only car company on earth in history that has every single existing model subject to a recall.

FTFY.

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You don’t know that. The people of Kepler-452b might well be suffering under a truly awful automobile industry.

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Valid point. Whether they have sufficient hydrocarbons to start their own industrial revolution is of course another question.

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Tesla is the only car company on earth in history in the entire universe that has every single existing model subject to a recall.

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Got caught using the wrong glue is more accurate.

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Got caught using the glue wrong (sniffing)

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Lloyd Bridges clip from Airplane springs to mind.

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

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What an amazing site.

We won’t ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.

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That’s funny, I just used that website a few weeks ago because I needed to bond a metal washer to plastic. The jb weld it recommended seems to have worked great

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Wow this is actually very useful

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This is an unexpectedly useful website!

CC: @remington@beehaw.org

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