“In Russia, volunteers collect Japanese bolts and nuts for the front from landfills”( you can find Russian sources confirming this in the comments btw)

by Qubecman

35 comments

  1. One of the articles translated in English by google translate:

    “For the SMO, Japanese bolts and nuts are urgently needed. Volunteers from Taganrog made such a request to residents of Buryatia, Transbaikalia and the Irkutsk region. Spare parts are asked to be collected on auto-assemblies.

    « Shop parts come off, burst and are not suitable for repairing equipment. That is why now you need bolts and nuts from auto-assemblies. Moreover, bolts and nuts of any size, diameter 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 mm are accepted by volunteers. Any thread step, any length. A bucket, a bag – we’ll take everything. You can ask young people to participate in the collection of the necessary, and thus contribute to the common cause! », volunteers say.

    Those who wish help need to write in the comments to the announcement on the tg channel « Battle Brotherhood » Buryatia.

    Also, spare parts for service stations in Taganrog can be sent with cars that go to the SMO.”

  2. Another one:”Volunteers from Taganrog, assisting participants in the SVO, appealed to residents of Buryatia, Transbaikalia and the Irkutsk region with a request to collect bolts and nuts of Japanese production. They can be purchased by carriages and sent to Taganrog with cars that go with cargo to the SVO. This is stated in the TV channel « Battle Brotherhood » in Buryatia.
    « Shop parts come off, burst and are not suitable for repairing equipment, ”the volunteers from Taganrog explain. – That is why we need bolts and nuts from the auto show ».
    It is noted that bolts and nuts are taken of any size, threading step and length with a diameter of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 mm.
    « Bucket, bag – we will accept everything. You can ask young people to participate in the collection necessary and thus contribute to the common cause », volunteers write.
    « Battle Brotherhood » indicate that those who want help can write here their comment and they will be given a telephone for communication.”

  4. Doubt it a bit. Store bought are not suitable? Smells like bullshit.

  5. Nuts and bolts generally are not stamped this is horseshit.

  6. Sources:[https://t](https://t). me/Crimeanwind/51762

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  7. I used to work for a sawmill equipment manufacturer that did business in Russia back in the day. At the time I felt it strange that among the obvious spare parts they would buy from us, they also asked us to supply them with an extra two dozen or so bolts, nuts, and washers for every one, on every machine, to have on hand at their facility… now it all makes sense!

  8. Reddit doesn’t always have mercy on my links so I just edited them you can put them back together and see for yourself

    I hate how this sh*t works here everything that is not a reddit twitter or youtube link get’s automatically removed without warning oh and you have to check on a different phone where you are not logged in to see if it was actually sent btw

  9. I’m frankly amazed the USSR/Russia didn’t have their own stupid non-standard bolt sizing just as a fuck you to the ROW.

  11. A scrapped Toyota with no doors is more use to the SMO than a Lada 🤣

  12. I like that the whole world collectively agrees that chinese parts/equipment are straight trash lol. even russia

  13. Single and double-race ball bearings will be next.
    China can produce good fasteners and bearings. Russia can’t afford them, as they’re 10-15x the cost to make them good (QA paper-trail and QC sample-testing from RMAT to finished goods inflates the cost dramatically).

  14. Imagine being in a country of 150 million people and no one can make bolts . . .

  15. bolt out of the blue

    this is nuts

    did see a video of a one man shop with a chinese machine making screws as you could not buy/find any

  16. That’s the result of systematic corruption in every corner of society that isn’t profitable enough. You can bet the equipment for natural gas extraction is top of the line. This is why Russia is such a shithole. You can’t trust anything because it’s more corrupt than the foundation it’s built on.

  17. Russoshill Fan Fiction: ***Russia is 100% war economy and is outmanufacturing all of NATO***

    Reality: Russia cannot make functional bolts of standard sizes.

    Anecdote: in 2006, a friend was majoring in Industrial engineering, and he had to make a series of standardized bolts that fit the professor’s test set. American college students have better engineering skill and quality control tolerances then glorious mother russia

  20. They should send their volunteers to collect Russian bodies that are littering Ukraine.

  21. I have observed that the Russian economy is going down the shitter exponentially faster lately. Don’t get me wrong there were major issues before but this is a whole new level of fucked.

  23. They cannot continue this war for another year without catastrophically destroying their ability to defend even their homeland.

  24. They’re just collecting them for all the soldiers stationed around Pripyat and the CNPP in case an anomaly pops up

  25. Its funny and amusing at the same time they are looking for country specific items.

  26. My guess is to try and pin Japan for manufacturing MLRS rockets for the US, which are then getting used In Ukraine 🇺🇦….Putin always looking for ways to escalate

  29. Russians have had problems with the supply of nuts and bolts going back to at least the 1960s.

    Commissars often shipping consumer goods like washing machines without all the parts affixed because quotas required shipping a certain number each month but didn’t have enough Hardware to put them together properly.

  30. Back in the day, people exported Lada cars back to Russia for spares.

  31. – Grandpa, what were you doing in 2024?
    – Collecting bolts for the second army.

  33. Lol@russia having to bypass sanctions by digging through shit, just for some basic shit like nuts and bolts

  34. Guess not much changed. Stalin’s red army striped entire German factories to move back to Russia. They lack the precision tooling to make quality parts. Snow ball down hill from there. I am surprised they are not short for quality Japanese capacitors. Since the made in China ones are also junk.

  35. I have a plan. Let’s all chip a few bucks into the pot and have a factory in China make us a few tons of 8, 10 and 12mm nuts and bolts out of the cheapest pot metal they have, but put a nice galvanized coating on it to hide the porosity of the underlying metal. Package in counterfeit Hilti boxes. Deliver to the front. Profit?

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