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Title: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: skoebl on November 21, 2007, 11:15:37 PM
A: Is teh dangerous

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Title: Re: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 22, 2007, 12:31:09 AM
yup  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:, been there, plus the wheel likes to grab teh things, and even if it dont whup you, it usually terminally damages teh chain :mad:
Title: Re: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 22, 2007, 12:32:41 AM
and skoebl why is it, that jewelers dont like to size weddding bands? :dunno_white:
Title: Re: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: skoebl on November 22, 2007, 08:56:48 AM
Heh, I dunno....I love to size plain bands. Most money for the time spent (aside from re-tipping prongs)...It's just anneal, stretch, polish  :)


Yeah that chain got me pretty good. Hurt like crazy. Bled for a long while. The repair I did held up; but the chain broke in two other places  :laugh:
Title: Re: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 22, 2007, 08:44:47 PM
id say so. lol what kinda link was it?, oh btw i got 2 rings in broken, one of which was broken in 3 places, with NO collateral damage, ie no twisting. im still tryin to figure out how that thing was broken :laugh:
Title: Re: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: skoebl on November 23, 2007, 10:06:52 PM
It was a box link chain that I had replaced the two end jumprings and the lobster claw. Chain broke a few links past my solder (as in, my repair held up  :thumb:) on both ends.

Yeah I've seen some strange things like that. But a lot of times a ring is all dented to hell; the customer comes in complaining that something we did caused a diamond to fall out and want a replacement (of course it was absolutely nothing that they did). We show them that the ring is basically smooshed flat and that whatever they did must have hurt  :laugh: :laugh:.

The 3 broken places might be previously existing seams from old repairs. I've done a few simple sizings on rings that have had half-shanks done, along with various other repairs...So basically I heat it to do the sizing...whole ring falls apart...I leave room cursing  :mad: :laugh:
Title: Re: Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 23, 2007, 10:46:48 PM
Quotewhole ring falls apart...I leave room cursing   


rofl yup been there on several occasions  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: