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Acme anvil corporation12/26/2023 ![]() Omni Consumer Products (OCP) from RoboCop also produces everything from weapons, to simple consumer products, to the eponymous hero.Older Than Television: Harold Lloyd comedy Never Weaken (1921), in which Harold uses "Acme Soap Flakes" to make a road slippery.In the film of The Losers, the team has to hack into a hard drive from Goliath International, which makes "pretty much everything.".In the movie Braindead uncle Les uses an Acme brand clothes mangle.As of the fourth movie, they have been bought up by Wal-Mart. The Weyland-Yutani company from the Alien series of films seems to be one of these, being involved in government, interstellar shipping, attempts at biological weaponry, colonization of planets, and warfare.1941 (1979) briefly featured an Acme Turpentine warehouse before it got wrecked.See also Mega-Corp, We Sell Everything, and Trope Co. Bugs Bunny and other characters made use of their services as well, with better results. Coyote (hinted to be the company's QA tester), whose more elaborate plans involved Acme catapults, earthquake pills, bat suits, spring shoes, Plunger Detonators, and so on the Coyote's undying faith in Acme Corp, despite the endemic flaws and defects, is one of the mysteries of this series. The eponymous example appears most famously in classic Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Wile E. Not to be confused with any of the myriad non-fictional objects and entities bearing the moniker (which is what our Trope Namer was making fun of at the time). These supplies are, of course, Acme products. Renowned for express shipping that has FedEx drooling in jealousy.įor this wiki's purposes, an Acme Corporation is any generic corporation that seems to supply everything a character, or entire cast, uses. Your one-stop shop for a variety of products which may or may not function exactly as advertised. So does this explain why we are a bit gunshy of ground/milled anvil faces? In 38 years of smithing I am finally up to 4 anvils I have seen that I would have suggested grinding on before using it, vs several thousand used anvils that I would not recommend doing so.- Sign outside Mann Co., Team Fortress 2's "Blood Brothers" Comic Guess how much a 5 hour job by a top end professional welder would cost on the open market instead of being a donation to the craft? Lets just say he could have bought a replacement anvil the same size. After the long preheat to the proper temperature a skilled blacksmith and welder-teaches welding at the local college spent 5 hours using industrial equipment building a face back on it using the correct alloy rods and correct post heat. I had a friend who had had his first anvil milled flat with sharp edges-(another bad thing in smithing as they result in cold shuts on your work.) He found that the face was then too thin to use as an anvil. So he paid good money for an anvil and paid good money to have it ruined-he kept it for around 20 years until there was an Anvil Repair Day hosted by an ABANA Affiliate only 225 miles away from him. Trying to replace material ground off can often ruin an anvil if not done absolutely correctly, (most welders do NOT know the proper process!!!!!) And it is generally quite expensive. Removing DECADES of life from an anvil that didn't need it to be usable is generally considered by blacksmiths to be a bad idea. ![]() If your car got a bit out of alignment would you then grind the tread down on all your tires to make them smooth and even and matching again? Or would you fix the alignment and rotate the tires and continue driving on them? What would happen to the use life of your tires if you did grind them to match?Īnvils generally do not need to be FLAT, my favorite blade straightening anvil is the one that has the most swale to it for example. ![]() The hardened face of an anvil is of limited thickness it's thickness also controls the uselife of the anvil-think of it like tread on your car's tire. ![]()
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