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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

... I said to myself as I meticulously removed all traces of the serial number.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

For the stuff that's worth >a million bucks, the serial number is like "6"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they're going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Ya and taking off the serial number doesn't really matter when it's less than 10 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never again having trouble figuring out the exact welding wire needed for all the gathered materials in a project seems like an excellent perk by itself.