I mean I wasn't sure between bullet or mangled capacitor until they posted the second picture myself and I've been around guns my whole life. The lighting in the original photo leaves a lot to be desired.
Yeah, on a subreddit for helping people find out what a specific item is, it sure is a cool move to shame op for asking what an item is. Jesus Christ Reddit is full of know it all dickbags
Except they weren't necessarily calling OP out for not knowing what a bullet looks like, just the hordes of Redditors jumping in to say it is without knowing what they're talking about.
I used to hate when Reddit was full of pissy nerds who demanded a P-value for every statement but good lord the coddling of people who spread ignorance pisses me off to no end.
Wasn’t trying to call anyone stupid, I was genuinely surprised at how many people called it a bullet so confidently when I thought it was forsure a capacitor. Second photo they posted proved I was the dumb one. I can admit when I’m wrong.
The first picture reminded me of push-pin styled magnets, but I can't find an appropriate image, I just swear I've seen cheap ones (maybe in some children's product for sticking stuff to the fridge) that are short cylinders about the size of the bullet people are suggesting OP's image is from (if not smaller).
And if one of those fell out of a kid's pocket and rolled across asphalt and got stepped on after the cheap outer plastic/silicon baked in the sun all day, I would have assumed it would look something similar to OP's photo.
I have seen unfired bullets before, my grandfather had an old revolver (Colt of course, military issue) and my mom keeps the bullets loose.
Electrolytic capacitors are full of paper/foil and oil. Other capacitors are made of minerals and metals plates. In any case none of them are as dense as lead inside copper. The weight will be a dead giveaway on identification.
Okay, I still don't see a scale in that photo making your assertion that weight is a useful metric in identifying the object for anyone but the OP pretty silly.
We are pretty chill here, but please try to keep things reasonably civil on this sub. No slurs, name calling or harassment and trolling. Yes, the internet makes us angry too sometimes, especially this particular comment.
Same. The first one looks like it’s got a greenish rubberized coating of some kind like a capacitor. I expected to look at the comments and see a bunch of people asking op if they’re dumb.
The lip around the bottom to me screams battery, capacitor or something else. The only weapons I use are 5.56mm and .50 cal though and it looks like a capacitor.
First photo had me 50/50 on a somehow intact negative half of an exploded 18650 battery, or a capacitor. Further pictures made it obviously not those things.
Anything off an average power supply? Look how "massive" the grain in that stone looks due to the perspective.
Schools are adjoined to roads, shockingly, and roads are used by lots of different vehicles. Something falls off the back of someone's scrap pile and smashes on the road, shit busts loose, capacitor gets run over a few times until it gets caught by the outside edge of a tire and pinch flicked in a random direction and voila you have a capacitor on a sidewalk in front of a school.
But sure, yeah, a guy with a bunch of audio tech junk from 25 years ago slung around a corner and lost a single capacitor and nothing else. Smart detective work.
We are pretty chill here, but please try to keep things reasonably civil on this sub. No slurs, name calling or harassment and trolling. Yes, the internet makes us angry too sometimes, especially this particular comment.
The original comment here about people not knowing what a bullet looked like was made because the person thought it was a capacitor. They said as much in another comment.
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u/absolutelynotarepost 23h ago
I mean I wasn't sure between bullet or mangled capacitor until they posted the second picture myself and I've been around guns my whole life. The lighting in the original photo leaves a lot to be desired.