We called them brads
I vaguely remember these but forgot what they were for
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Akh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
qualia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s just tgeir sland name. Their full scientific name is bradley.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
brass fastener / split pin (wiki link)
They can be used in place of staples or treasury tags to join paperwork together, but they’re mainly for making things where cardboard needs to rotate on some other cardboard, like cool 2D puppets or secret-code-wheels or toy clocks or whatever.
residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Paper rivets, maybe?
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More or less. Nominally they were for quickly binding paper that had been through a 2- or 3-hole punch.
Really, they were for making badass clocks in kindergarten.
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Technically, the paper doesn’t need to have been punched, that’s why they’re pointy. You can just jam them through the paper and open the veins.
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, decoder wheels and shit.
UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These are for keeping your 200 page film script together as you shove it through the crack of the rapidly rolling-up window of a hollywood producers car.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
To add to what others are saying, you stick this through the corner of a stack of papers, and it then acts as a hinge so you can swivel the top half of the stack to expose a lower page, whilst still holding the whole stack together.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s in the same family as staples and those H-shaped string things.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That ones called a string tag but theyre quite rare nowadays.
el_muerte@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I have a theory that 4 out of 5 people on the Internet who use “whilst” are Americans who think it makes them look smarter, rather than Brits who grew up using it as convention.
Which are you?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Another kind of paperclip.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I only remember using these in school to connect two pieces of paper together to make shit like cardboard skeletons.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Pins that teach curious children about the dangers of electrical sockets…
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Learn by doing
chocrates@piefed.world 2 months ago
They are for putting sheets of paper together like staples I think
0ops@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Dang I can confidently say that I haven’t seen one of these since grade school
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is what rich people are talking about when they refer to cuff links. They are fancy jewelry that keeps your sleeves closed after you cut a slot in them to fit your beefy hands through but don’t use elastics or wizard sleeves.
ollie@pawb.social 2 months ago
ah, thats what you get for defeating Inner Agent 3
Jagarico@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One day…
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those are sounding brads, to hear you scream when you can’t remove them from your urethra…
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Puppet pin, for making puppets.
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Split pins.
For splitting.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cotter pins?
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You use a paper hole punch to punch a hole in several papers. Then you put the tines through the hole, and then bend them in opposite directions fastening the papers together. Old manilla envelopes have then built into the envelope to keep the flap shut.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There were binders that had these sort of things built in that could hold a lot of paper with a long metal band.
Really useful for shimming door latches.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
We called those duotangs.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Lol at Mr Fancy pants over here with a hole puncher! We used to just shove 'em through.
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Definately an option. Hard when there’s more than like 5 pieces of paper.