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Okay, #2 for today. This morning my wife dropped an ear ring down a vanity sink. I said "Not to worry, I'll just open up the trap and get it out, should be a 10 minute job."...famous last words. This is what I was greeted by:



Merde. No trap under the vanity.

Okay, trap must be in the basement, so downstairs I go, and traced the line to the black pipe you see a bit of here:



Pretty congested this side, how about the other side:



Not any better. So the line disappears, and presumably the trap is somewhere in this cold air return duct...



So, my wife is going to contact the jeweller we bought these from to see if they can be replaced - if not I'll be digging into this ducting at some point, but not today...

::facepalm1::
 
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Archer Archer
Okay, #2 for today. This morning my wife dropped an ear ring down a vanity sink. I said "Not to worry, I'll just open up the trap and get it out, should be a 10 minute job."...famous last words. This is what I was greeted by:



Merde. No trap under the vanity.

Okay, trap must be in the basement, so downstairs I go, and traced the line to the black pipe you see a bit of here:



Pretty congested this side, how about the other side:



Not any better. So the line disappears, and presumably the trap is somewhere in this cold air return duct...



So, my wife is going to contact the jeweller we bought these from to see if they can be replaced - if not I'll be digging into this ducting at some point, but not today...

::facepalm1::


Quite a liberal use of duct tape too. 😲 not to mention 180 degree turn in air flow.

She may have done you a favor 😁
 
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Re an 1861 movement.
 
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Foo2rama Foo2rama
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Re an 1861 movement.

A new profession! In addition to a pet sitter, hire a manual watch winder while on holiday.
 
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Okay, #2 for today. This morning my wife dropped an ear ring down a vanity sink. I said "Not to worry, I'll just open up the trap and get it out, should be a 10 minute job."...famous last words. This is what I was greeted by:
... Merde. No trap under the vanity...

Look up something called Victorian mudlarks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudlark These are not birds. Were people of the lowest levels of society that litterally waded through human sh*t (nightsoil) to find things like that lost gold and diamond ring or other 'lost' valuables.

-j
 
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sheepdoll sheepdoll
Look up something called Victorian mudlarks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudlark These are not birds. Were people of the lowest levels of society that litterally waded through human sh*t (nightsoil) to find things like that lost gold and diamond ring or other 'lost' valuables.

-j


That's a glass half full way of looking at it! 😁
 
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A new profession! In addition to a pet sitter, hire a manual watch winder while on holiday.
Not so far fetched, back in the 90's I bought a couple of antique clocks from a well known clock shop on the NJ shore ($5,000 to $250,000 clock clientele). We were visiting about the wealthy people he serviced in Manhattan and there was a guy who did nothing but go around to wealthy people's apartments and condos and wind their expensive clocks, and reset the time if needed. If a clock needed service the winder guy would arrange for that, either on site or back in the shop in NJ. I think he said the guy made about $50,000 a year doing just that. Never underestimate what some people will pay for.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
Not so far fetched, back in the 90's I bought a couple of antique clocks from a well known clock shop on the NJ shore ($5,000 to $250,000 clock clientele). We were visiting about the wealthy people he serviced in Manhattan and there was a guy who did nothing but go around to wealthy people's apartments and condos and wind their expensive clocks, and reset the time if needed. If a clock needed service the winder guy would arrange for that, either on site or back in the shop in NJ. I think he said the guy made about $50,000 a year doing just that. Never underestimate what some people will pay for.
Sounds like a dream job 😁
 
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Eve Eve
Sounds like a dream job 😁

"Wind your clock, Mister?"
 
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From one of my favourite compilations (I dunno but I don't really think the tune is about timekeeping 😉):

 
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When you stumble upon another watchmaker using your photos for his web site without permission...

Swiss Watchery.jpg


::facepalm1::
 
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Archer Archer
When you stumble upon another watchmaker using your photos for his web site without permission...

Swiss Watchery.jpg


::facepalm1::
While you wait mainspring replacement? While you wait escapement repair?

if you need advice on a DMCA notice I’ve been through the process many times.
 
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When you stumble upon another watchmaker using your photos for his web site without permission...

Swiss Watchery.jpg


::facepalm1::

Going forward you should include your contact info along with your copyright info..
 
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Okay, #2 for today. This morning my wife dropped an ear ring down a vanity sink. I said "Not to worry, I'll just open up the trap and get it out, should be a 10 minute job."...famous last words. This is what I was greeted by:



Merde. No trap under the vanity.

Okay, trap must be in the basement, so downstairs I go, and traced the line to the black pipe you see a bit of here:



Pretty congested this side, how about the other side:



Not any better. So the line disappears, and presumably the trap is somewhere in this cold air return duct...



So, my wife is going to contact the jeweller we bought these from to see if they can be replaced - if not I'll be digging into this ducting at some point, but not today...

::facepalm1::
Hang the unauthorized use of photos... what happened with the vanity basin?
 
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I didn’t think this needed to be said, but I saw this today…

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Archer
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So...we needed a few things and my wife asked me to make a list. We needed some fresh ginger, so I started the list with that. Then the next item I wrote as a little joke, then completed the list...stuck it in the tennis bag, and she stopped at the store on her way home after playing...

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When she got home she was completely puzzled what I was asking for on that second line...didn’t get it at all...🤦
 
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Archer Archer
So...we needed a few things and my wife asked me to make a list. We needed some fresh ginger, so I started the list with that. Then the next item I wrote as a little joke, then completed the list...stuck it in the tennis bag, and she stopped at the store on her way home after playing...

1A140F63-3BBD-4F50-B1C9-56D5CDB383EF.jpeg


When she got home she was completely puzzled what I was asking for on that second line...didn’t get it at all...🤦

😁😁😁

Similar many years ago I wrote Poo Tickets on a list (for needing toilet paper.)

Mrs who now knows what poo tickets are now came home bemused "what's a poo ticket"

"You know the little tickets next to the toilet..."
 
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Archer Archer
So...we needed a few things and my wife asked me to make a list. We needed some fresh ginger, so I started the list with that. Then the next item I wrote as a little joke, then completed the list...stuck it in the tennis bag, and she stopped at the store on her way home after playing...

1A140F63-3BBD-4F50-B1C9-56D5CDB383EF.jpeg


When she got home she was completely puzzled what I was asking for on that second line...didn’t get it at all...🤦

I got Mary-Anne, but what the heck is Brio?
 
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On the topic of Gillian’s Island…

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