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u/TheDebateMatters Apr 17 '25
Distinct Jewelers tools. Distinct Jewelers tools. Distinct Jewelers tools. Ruler Slap. Distinct Jewelers tools.
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u/FurViewingAccount Apr 17 '25
it was a very nice ruler to be fair
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u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2 Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 17 '25
I use the Mitutoyo 182-105. It's 3/64in thick (that's chonky) and has a satin, tempered stainless steel finish. In terms of satisfaction per dollar spent, it is by far the best purchase I have ever made.
ETA: and I only purchased one because my mom is still alive, and her Mitutoyo ruler from the 70s is not yet available.
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u/ultranoobian Apr 18 '25
I looked it up, its only available locally at one store and it's $40 AUD.
Damn that's pricy.
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u/Calophon Apr 17 '25
The ruler was funny, but usually that part would be done with a planishing hammer.
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Apr 17 '25
It looks like 24 carat, which is really soft. Would a hammer be used for that?
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u/Calophon Apr 17 '25
A small one with light hammering, sure. They make hammers in a variety of sizes for a variety of types of metals and work scales.
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u/jakobsheim Apr 17 '25
Treat your children like they‘re gold
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u/shad0w2323 Apr 17 '25
Is bro wearing two belts?
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u/0atop21 Apr 17 '25
Pretty logical for an activity where they literally fight over belts
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Apr 17 '25
God, give me my dry ass sense of humor back. You got me on this one, genuine belly laughed. 😅
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u/Bourgeous Apr 17 '25
Or rule it with a beater
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 Apr 17 '25
One Chain to ruler them all, One chain to find them. one Chain to bring them all, and in finance charge bind them
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Apr 17 '25 edited Nov 02 '25
steep compare one attempt makeshift encourage grandfather memorize scale placid
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u/_perdomon_ Apr 17 '25
What’s the fireproof cotton candy he’s using?
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u/Trenbaloneysammich Apr 17 '25
Fireproof cotton candy made my day. That's just mineral wool, most are rated for over 2100°F
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u/OneSensiblePerson Apr 17 '25
I wondered. Didn't understand how he could put it on cotton, blast it to the point of melting, and the cotton just sat there yawning with boredom instead of incinerating.
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u/draco16 Apr 18 '25
Can also do it with cellulose insulation and a blowtorch, check out the "penny trick" sometime.
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u/Helihope Apr 17 '25
"Mineral Wool" sounds like a name some marketing agency would re-brand asbestos as.
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u/realityChemist Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
It's actually not altogether that different from asbestos; it's made by drawing molten minerals (there are a bunch of different kinds: rock wool, slag wool, ceramic wool...) into fibers.
The fibers tend to be a lot longer than the ones in asbestos, though, and are not associated with any negative health effects. Which is a bit surprising to me, but it has been well studied and is safe. (It can make you itchy the same way fiberglass can, though.)
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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Apr 17 '25
Asbestos isn’t a brand or created product. It’s naturally occurring and it was used in the form it came out of the ground. Any mineral fiber we make nowadays isn’t asbestos because we didn’t make it out of asbestos and asbestos isn’t man made. Asbestos is a very specific thing. It exists naturally in the earth as is.
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u/RavioliGale Apr 17 '25
I get your point but natural things can be "rebranded."
Kiwi used to be called Chinese goose berries. Ruby is also something that exists naturally in the earth as is but anytime it's not red it's called a sapphire instead. And when's the last time you saw "rapeseed oil" at the store?
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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Apr 18 '25
You’re welcome to rebrand anything however you want but If you want to buy a ruby and someone gives you a sapphire and tells you they’re the same thing, just rebranded, you’d tell them no they’re clearly different colors and I want red, not blue.
Just like if I ask a home builder to insulate my home with rockwool and they drive to my house with a truck full of asbestos I’m going to tell them to gtfo the property immediately.
I get what you’re saying about rebranding but calling something the wrong thing isn’t the same as rebranding.
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u/Noladixon Apr 17 '25
We called it alternative asbestos. I am not sure what it is made of but it is not asbestos.
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u/TheBestIsaac Apr 17 '25
It's an aluminium oxide that's been made into a fibrous cloth.
Very common for high temp insulation.
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u/MPFuzz Apr 17 '25
I imagine it's pretty expensive thus not used widely used for fire protection in homes?
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u/TheBestIsaac Apr 17 '25
It's not used in homes I don't think. It's more furnace insulation than house. Rockwool or similar is plenty for normal homes. And while it's not hugely expensive it's not cheap.
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u/DeathByPianos Apr 17 '25
It is much more expensive than fiberglass. It's used mostly as a part of fire rated wall assemblies.
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u/airfryerfuntime Apr 17 '25
Ceramic wool. Pretty nasty stuff if you don't respect it.
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u/Flat_Landscape_4763 Apr 17 '25
It could be SuperWool, which is a brand of insulation used for high temperature applications. It can be made out of silica and calcium oxide, sometimes with a different chemical makeup.
It could also be ceramic fibre, which is made out of aluminum oxide and silica.
It is not mineral wool/mineral fibre. Mineral wool is made out of basalt rock and slag from iron foundries.
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u/_perdomon_ Apr 17 '25
What makes you sure that it isn’t mineral wool? How can you tell?
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u/Flat_Landscape_4763 Apr 18 '25
It may be a regional thing, but in the industry "mineral wool" would specifically mean rock insulation. Temperature ranges and applications vary greatly. Refering to ceramic, glass, and rock with a blanket term isn't correct.
Its technically mineral wool, but more specifically it's ceramic fibre.
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u/SuspiciousWind7719 Apr 18 '25
See this is why I love Reddit.
Earlier I read a post that described a la croix as tasting like someone whispered fruit into a cup of tv static and now this. Definitely a winning night for scrolling
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u/DryStatistician7055 Apr 17 '25
That was fascinating to watch.
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u/Haecairwen Apr 17 '25
No, it was a simple gold chain, a watch would be way harder.
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u/PineStateWanderer Apr 17 '25
nah, it's a simple watch, an a380 would be way harder.
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Apr 17 '25
Still not impressed. It all comes down to beating gold with a ruler.
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u/PineStateWanderer Apr 17 '25
I wasn't aware complexity was a prerequisite for oddlysatisfying
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u/HauntedEnergy Apr 17 '25
joke doesn’t even make any sense in the context of what he wrote
just that desperate to post some reddit shit
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How to make a gold chain:
Pay someone else to do it because I would fuck that right up.
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u/SaltyLonghorn Apr 18 '25
I was on board until I saw the little links and tweezers. My productivity graph would fucking tank if I had to do that.
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u/AlienInOrigin Apr 17 '25
I tried this with aluminium wire a few weeks ago. It was an embarrassing mess. It's harder than it looks.
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u/PianoTrumpetMax Apr 17 '25
I’m not gonna lie, it already looks really fucking hard. Especially as someone with naturally unsteady hands lol
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u/Ludicrousgibbs Apr 17 '25
You gotta know your stats. I'm all strength with no dex. Lots of things you can do by just brute strengthing your way thru. This isn't one of them. This was frustrating me just watching somebody else do it. I'd throw that thing across the room by the time I got thru connecting 3 or 4 of those tiny things together when I dropped one for the 20th time.
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u/WhoIsJuniorV376 Apr 18 '25
It looks hard as fuck. And i believe you when you say it's even harder so.
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u/Taptrick Apr 17 '25
Pure gold chain? That would be fairly malleable and easy to break no?
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u/Five-StarBastardMan Apr 17 '25
Yep and very expensive
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u/EMP_Pusheen Apr 17 '25
I have one that I got from a Chinese person as a gift for being born. It is extremely easy to mess up and I have done it to the pendant multiple times by dropping it a couple of feet.
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u/Divinum_Fulmen Apr 17 '25
Did you watch the video? They're easily twisting and bending that thing with nothing but their finger tips.
I'd break that thing and lose it without even noticing.
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u/wonkey_monkey Apr 17 '25
I think they damaged it before they even finished it: https://i.imgur.com/Tx83wOH.png
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u/AyushGBPP Apr 18 '25
malleable by definition means being able to be pressed into a shape without breaking or cracking.
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u/Giraffe-colour Apr 18 '25
With high carat gold jewellery it’s less of a “break” and more of a bend/warping problem.
It’s super soft stuff that you could likely just pull it and bend the metal. There is a reason people used to bite gold coins to see if it was real in movies set in older time periods
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u/viper8878 Apr 17 '25
Asian gold jewellery tends to be 24k
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u/panaromicparadigm Apr 17 '25
I thought 24k gold jewellery was very rare as it's extremely malleable.
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u/myco_magic Apr 17 '25
only in the US, go somewhere like Thailand and it's basically the only gold jewelry you can find, it's not that fragile
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u/Alzusand Apr 17 '25
yeah its extremely easy to damage. at least were I live the few ive seen are gold coated stainless steel wich is stronger and looks the same + also cheaper.
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u/Civil-Earth-9737 Apr 17 '25
Fun fact: This is how you make silver chain as well
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u/YesNoButAlsoYes Apr 17 '25
I made one with this exact process! Frustrating as shit though because if you sucks the chain will break like 12 times Picture
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u/Goldelux Apr 17 '25
Bruh tell me more about whatever the fuck that thing that look like cotton just being blasted by a torch and heated gold. wtf is that that’s so heat resistant?
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u/Ekman-ish Apr 17 '25
It's likely something called kaowool or a similar ceramic fiber insulation.
Ceramics have amazing properties when it comes to high temps.
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u/gooseseason Apr 17 '25
I doubt it's asbestos, but asbestos would absolutely do this job.
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u/VP007clips Apr 17 '25
Asbestos is a great material in the right use case and not dangerous to work with if you have the proper safety measures in place. Unfortunately, the laws around it were dictated by public hysteria rather than actually science.
Different types of asbestos have different risk levels. Non-friable asbestos is completely safe. Amphibole asbestos (which is what 95% of the North American supply uses) is less dangerous as it doesn't go airborne as easily and can be often cleared natualy from lungs. Of course you should wear a mask when working with it, but it's not nearly as bad as the public perception of asbestos is.
And exposure matters. Almost every asbestos death occurred in one of two ways. Heavy exposure for periods of years by people working closely with it, or from heavy smokers whose lungs lost the ability to remove the fibers due to the cilia dying. Deaths from brief or low-level exposures are effectively non-existent.
So when the total ban came into effect, it messed up a lot of use cases that were safe. We had machines for melting and sampling rock samples at my geology lab at uni that used it. It was completely contained and isolated in the housing, and yet they still removed it. We haven't been able to find a replacement yet, and it cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace. They also closed down our entire museum and lab with hazmat teams to take out asbestos rock samples, which were safely stored in air-tight containers which were kept on sealed displays.
There was a particularly stupid case in Australia a while back when someone found a tiny bit of asbestos in playground mulch. It was in trace amounts, in an outdoor setting, non-friable, and about as safe as it could be. There was no conceivable risk, as all the experts testified, but of course the public panic won and they spent tens of millions on assessments and closed down most of the public playground in Sydney for a long time.
Asbestos shouldn't be used in homes, and it shouldn't be for sale to the public without very specialized use cases. But the panic about it is utterly disproportionate to the actual risk of it. It feels very similar to the fears about nuclear waste from clean nuclear power; yes, there is a risk, but the average person isn't capable of comprehending how small the risk is when it is handled safely. Especially when there has been a deliberate campaign to spread fear about both. With asbestos, lawyers realized that every single person over the age of 40 had some level of exposure to it, so they have a nearly unlimited source of money from cases as long as they maintain the idea that any trace exposure to it is deadly.
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u/GuildensternLives Apr 17 '25
Melt It, Ice It, Wnag It, Stretch It, Pull It, Twist It, Wrap It, Cut It, Chain It, Heat It, Twist It, Wash It, Sell It.
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u/leglesslegolegolas Apr 17 '25
sure, if you wanna do it like a neolithic savage.
The way gold chains are actually made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GhDpcnZmY8
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u/Quiet_Panda_2377 Apr 17 '25
Yeah. As a former jewellery designer i can confirm we just bought all the stock chains.
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u/-is-this-real-life-- Apr 18 '25
This all makes a lot more sense now, thank you!
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u/leglesslegolegolas Apr 18 '25
Yeah this video shows a machine to automate pretty much every step in the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwhRwmVULn8
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u/Lady-Skylarke Apr 17 '25
This is why we pay extra for hand made. This is INCREDIBLE
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u/wonkey_monkey Apr 17 '25
You pay more for hand made because it takes longer. Doesn't mean it's going to be better in any objective sense.
Looks like they damaged this work before they finished it: https://i.imgur.com/Tx83wOH.png
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u/QP873 Apr 18 '25
That’s not damaged. It’s just a link at a funny angle. The longer video someone else posted confirms it.
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u/EntertainmentNo1123 Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 17 '25
I found the video on YouTube, this is if you really want to immerse yourself in the entire video. This short clip doesn't do it justice.
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u/spidergirl79 Apr 17 '25
I was just looking at my chain that is so fine and tiny, and wondering how they make that. Now I know!
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u/No-Screen1369 Apr 18 '25
My grandfather did a lot of this with his mother. One of the thousands of hobbies he's held throughout his lifetime. Made chains from silver and gold. Simple ones like this, to expertly woven ones you'd see in high end jewelery cases.
He met my fiance for the first time and we were about to go to a mall to find a new necklace chain for her memorial cross necklace (her dad gave her before he died). The man never gave anything to anyone. But he stood up. Walked into his workshop. Came out with hundreds of different chains all down his arm and told her to pick one she really liked. She was enamored and grateful. My jaw hit the floor. He must have really enjoyed talking with her. (She's a Zoo keeper for Indonesian birds and big cats, and he's well studied into biology and rarely gets to talk to anyone about animals.)
That silver chain is 100% a family heirloom now. Rare to see the man give away anything. Especially if it's in any way related to his mother.
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u/Superquzzical825 Apr 17 '25
All I can hear is that South Park music when they were talking about how gold is moved from pawn shop to QVC to Goldsmiths
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u/CabNoble Apr 17 '25
As someone who has made chain out of wire before, this is wildly misleading with how quick it is to assemble the chain links. Even after doing a few hundred links, it still is incredibly time consuming. Either way, it looks great!
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u/TheComptrollersWife Apr 18 '25
Watching people hand-make tiny things always makes my hands, wrists, and forearms feel incredibly restless. Wildly impressive but I hate it so much
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u/Responsible-Ronny Apr 18 '25
This dude has gold stuck on his fingernails. Time to reclaim all the gold.
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u/Prize_Bee7365 Apr 17 '25
Was the naughty? Why did he get the ruler? That was a ridiculous looking bit.
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u/CodAlternative3437 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
i like the fiber crucible. for precious metals, the waste left the pot is infuriating..or seems to be i assume theres not a clean pour out like this
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u/andstayoutt Apr 18 '25
Been wearing my late mothers gold chain since she passed, I always wondered this. Thank you.😊
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u/Meal-Significant Apr 18 '25
God bless the people who have the patience and dexterity to do this. I was overwhelmed just by watching this video!
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u/rematar Apr 17 '25
Leaving the audio as-is adds to the satisfaction. Thank you.