Can of Screws

Coffee can full of tiny screws.
In case you were wondering: it’s heavy.

It’s an old coffee can full of tiny screws. The ones on top appear to be #3-56 (fine thread) in stainless steel, though the variety beneath is diverse. All in all, weighing in at approximately 3,063g. Individual screws weigh in – from a coarse sample – between 0.11g and 0.67g each.

Not going to throw them out, but just as unlikely to know when they might ever be put to use. Or how, precisely, we’d expect to find the necessary screws buried in such a mass.

Just, please, don’t drop it on the floor.

Coffee Can

Coffee can filled to the brim with small screws
Steel can full of steel screws: hefty.

Why, yes, astute observer: that is a can, formerly home to Maxwell House BOLD French Roast coffee, now filled to the brim with #2-64 fine thread, slotted-head screws. No, it was not labeled.

A substantial quantity of an infrequently-used fastener around here. One can infer that we have spares enough to last quite some time.