rose gold filled wire

[Cloudy]

What is it? If used for inlay and filed, what's the center look like?????

 

[Brian Marshall]

Cloudy ,


Don't use gold filled wire for inlay....

The center is usually brass, and after filing and sanding flush - will show through. And tarnish.


Long ago, when prices were MUCH cheaper - we used to special order gold fill over fine silver sheet for certain jobs.

But we WANTED the effect you could get when the base metal (silver) showed through the gold when you engraved deep.


You won't want the result you get from using gold filled wire for inlay.


Brian

 

[Brian Marshall]

While the subject of gold filled wire is up, here's a joke we played on a few apprentices:

We would send 'em to a supplier to pick up a bunch of stuff on a list...

Last item on the list was 3 ounces of 14K gold filled casting shot.

The guy at the Frei-Borel counter always knew whoever was asking for it - was from our shop.


B.

 

[DakotaDocMartin]

Last item on the list was 3 ounces of 14K gold filled casting shot.

Funny! It reminds me of being sent all over the camp looking for the "tent stretcher" when I was in Boy Scouts.

 

[GTJC460]

Or a left handed smoke shifter!

 

[Red Green]

Those are being manufactured again. I heard they are setting up shop in Washington, times must be tougher than I thought, they say guys are lining up to shift smoke.

Bob

 

[Roger Bleile]

In the air force it was for 50 yards of flight line.

 

[graniteguy52]

And on the ranch it was a gate stretcher, or a truck-load of post holes.

 

[mitch]

and the ever-popular metric crescent wrench...

 

[golden forge]

When I worked for a small feed and farm company, we would send the newbies out to buy a open end/box end ,left handed wrench with a right sided camber.

 

[Marrinan]

Wood stretchers, sky hooks, left handed pipe clamps-ah the life of an apprentice. Fred

 

[monk]

navy---new officers reported aboard ship to the captain first. he always seemed to send them on an endless search for "relative bearing grease". took an eternity to report back to the captain that there was none to be found !

 

[Barry Lee Hands]

Mitch, you must mean a metric adjustable spanner, Crescent is a brand name and they did make metric wrenches.

 

[Dave London]

Don't forget the Snipe, yes it is a real bird some places

 

[DakotaDocMartin]

navy---new officers reported aboard ship to the captain first.

Dad was in Naval aviation in WWII serving with VP-74 in the PBM Martin Mariners. They would get the new guys to check the intercom. They would be in the next compartment telling them to speak louder and put it up to their lips! It was the in-flight urinal apparatus.

 

[Southern Custom]

As a jeweler I searched for an hour for the "Diamond Magnet". I've used it on every apprentice since then.

 

[golden forge]

S.C. At the first shop I worked for, a Diamond Magnet is what we called the sticky wax on the end if an old beading tool, used to pick up small stones when setting them. So if you never found any, I guess that's because we had them all. :biggrin:

 

[willy]

panda always wants a color picture of itself.

 

[Big-Un]

As a welder I sent my new helpers for "arc-start" and "crack cleaner." There actually IS a product called Crack Cleaner, but they looked for hours for "arc-start." Not sure the contractor appreciated it much, but we had a blast with it, especially when they had to walk down 20 or 30 flights of stairs looking for the stuff!

 

[mitch]

Mitch, you must mean a metric adjustable spanner, Crescent is a brand name and they did make metric wrenches.

when i was a kid, a "Crescent wrench" was the common term for an adjustable wrench (like Kleenex, Xerox, etc- after its inventor or most common mfr)- probably because "CRESCENT" was cast right into the handle. in that politically incorrect era, they were also referred to as "(insert ethnicity of choice here) socket sets".

and with the exception of the odd pretentious Anglophile or ex-pat mechanic, if somebody asked for an "adjustable spanner", they were expecting something like this: http://www.mscdirect.com/product/63940712