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Need a beer, or two myself tonight!!! Some days are better than others. Today, not so much.
A customer of the store nearly destroyed a wedding band the store had sold him, and this afternoon I was handed the restoration job as a major rush. He did a really nasty job on the ring, and it was hollowed 3/4 way around, and crushed. I only made it worse, the more I tried to save it.
Finally I did a total butcher job, using the laser, the torch, filler wire, solder, and a lot of time. Left work almost 2 hrs late because they HAD to have it! But I made it wearable, and not 1/2 bad considering what it looked like before and during the restoration.
I finally got home and figured a cold Guinness in the hot tub was a well deserved respite. I saw that the PH was off a bit, but just as I went to add a PH reducer, a wasp stung me on the back, and PH reducer went everywhere. No big deal right?
Turns out PH reducing powder burns the skin rather quickly, and painfully! Very painfully.
OK, I am over that now, and I am inside, showered off and with my Guinness (more than one or two now on the agenda!), wasps have all died sudden and painful deaths (you'd think by now the entire species would know enough not to pizz me off!), the hot tub is balanced, and I am getting ready to post some pics of the ray I carved on my FB page. NOT quite the peaceful evening I was anticipating, but hey, such is life.
hey jim!!!
rode my bike down your way thurs. am. to pick my daug.
up at the train station...
so freakin' hot down there that i thought my tires were going to melt off!!!!!
didn't start cooling down untill i found duffy's in lake george on the way back!
hope your today is going better than yesterday-go ride your handcar!!!!!!
have fun
yaeg
Ouch Jim ... My guess is that PH Reducing Powder is an acid of sorts. Combine that with moisture pulled from your skin, and I can imagine it'd hurt pretty bad. Glad you're ok.
Thanks guys.
No lasting damage from the acid. Painful at the time, but only a minor rash to show for it.
Beautiful day up this, except for @2hrs of passing t storms. Never hit hard here but I did decide to take the car over to Cooperstown for dinner instead of thee Harley .
No sense taking off for a bike ride when storms are rolling in. NOT my idea of fun to ride in rain.
Wow, okay, so I have rules against posting (and driving) in this condition. But today was an amazing day. We had over 3000 people attend the third annual Lansdale Beer Tasting Festival and it went smooth. Guestimates go to $30,000 to $40,000 raised for charities. Unfortunately for me I did not get to appreciate may of the incredible brews that were there. I got to sample some, but for the most part, I worked the event. Some beer was "salvaged" and I hope to get a part. G'nite.
Dang Jim. That sounds like a bad day all right. Except for the Guinness, that is.
By the way - what in heck was done to that wedding ring before they handed it to you?
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Wow, okay, so I have rules against posting (and driving) in this condition. But today was an amazing day. We had over 3000 people attend the third annual Lansdale Beer Tasting Festival and it went smooth. Guestimates go to $30,000 to $40,000 raised for charities. Unfortunately for me I did not get to appreciate may of the incredible brews that were there. I got to sample some, but for the most part, I worked the event. Some beer was "salvaged" and I hope to get a part. G'nite.
Wow, okay, so I have rules against posting (and driving) in this condition. But today was an amazing day. We had over 3000 people attend the third annual Lansdale Beer Tasting Festival and it went smooth. Guestimates go to $30,000 to $40,000 raised for charities. Unfortunately for me I did not get to appreciate may of the incredible brews that were there. I got to sample some, but for the most part, I worked the event. Some beer was "salvaged" and I hope to get a part. G'nite.
sounds like a good event! way to go with the fundraising
Dang Jim. That sounds like a bad day all right. Except for the Guinness, that is.
By the way - what in heck was done to that wedding ring before they handed it to you?
Band had been cut off the finger, and then spread wide, to get it off a swollen finger, which caved in the hollowed top. I have seen far worse damage to jewelry, but not usually given me as a big rush.
I even had one sweet little old lady come in one time, and insist on telling me a story, before she would show me the jewelry. She explained that she had been very very angry at her husband, but now that she had forgiven him she was hoping that I could save her wedding band.
She then handed me a wedding band that she had taken into her husband's shop, and she had crushed the band flat in his bench vise. Instead of a round "ring", it was crushed so flat that you could not even see light passing threw where the finger used to go through, and it had nasty scarring everywhere from the jaws of the vise!
That old lady was smart, because her story turned that restoration into a challenge!
At least it wasn't hollow though. Repairing anything that is hollow makes things much more difficult. Such repairs are very time consuming, and never profitable for the store; you do them for customer relations, not for the money they bring in, and usually staff is smart enough to get me extra time for a job like that, and not: "Jim, we need this before you leave", @ an hour and a half before I am leaving on a Fri.
And Mike
Glad you event worked out so well! Maybe investing in a few growlers to take there with you before next years event might be in order?
Possibly you could work some sort sampling into recruiting for the next event too?
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