WRUW Today?

noelekal · Jun 7, 2022

Jones in LA
Launched on a week- long road trip to rock quarries up and down the state of California. Getting paid to blow sh*t up. Life is good 😁

Good fun there! There's not much that can't be solved by the application of high explosives. Unfortunately, that would likely be the way I'd approach watch repair if I encountered any difficulty.

I once enjoyed having a commercial loan customer who quarried rock around these parts of Texas. He invited me out to see them set off a charge. It was amazing! There was a rectangular hole in the ground about the dimensions of an American football field. The bottom of the hole was of solid limestone and perfectly flat on the surface. We retired to hundreds of yards away, down the road and around a hill and the charge(es?) were set off. It sounded (and felt) like a single blast. Stone rained down to within 100 yards of our vehicles, some as large as American footballs.

I remember walking back up the road around the hill to discover a huge, pyramidal mound 80-90 yards long and higher than a two story house sitting in the rectangular hole where it had previously been flat, perfectly heaped up and ready for the crusher.

On the walk back I picked up one of the rocks that rained down near us. It was cold, as if it'd been refrigerated. This was on a Texas summer afternoon with the attendant heat we are prone to "enjoy."

Getting in a late afternoon Speedy Tuesday photo.

Paedipod · Jun 7, 2022

end of workday post

Lou P · Jun 7, 2022

Thought I'd share the original box.

...and user manual/pamphlet, which is in French, and despite the watch being a 105.012-65 purchased in March 1967, still shows the CK2915!

YaY!

noelekal · Jun 7, 2022

You have my vote for the award Lou P, for having the most touching Speedmaster of all on the Forum.

kaapstadflaneur · Jun 7, 2022

Titanium…

ghce · Jun 7, 2022

Out in the garden again today.

Jones in LA · Jun 7, 2022

noelekal
Good fun there! There's much that can't be solved by the application of high explosives. Unfortunately, that would likely be the way I'd approach watch repair if I encountered any difficulty.

I once enjoyed having a commercial loan customer who quarried rock around these parts of Texas. He invited me out to see them set off a charge. It was amazing! There was a rectangular hole in the ground about the dimensions of an American football field. The bottom of the hole was of solid limestone and perfectly flat on the surface. We retired to hundreds of yards away, down the road and around a hill and the charge(es?) were set off. It sounded (and felt) like a single blast. Stone rained down to within 100 yards of our vehicles, some as large as American footballs.

I remember walking back up the road around the hill to discover a huge, pyramidal mound 80-90 yards long and higher than a two story house sitting in the rectangular hole where it had previously been flat, perfectly heaped up and ready for the crusher.

On the walk back I picked up one of the rocks that rained down near us. It was cold, as if it'd been refrigerated. This was on a Texas summer afternoon with the attendant heat we are prone to "enjoy."

Getting in a late afternoon Speedy Tuesday photo.

I love that story! Interestingly, a big part of what I do is to help prevent rocks raining down from the sky. A perfectly executed blast launches no rocks into the sky, but still reaches the desired level of fragmentation. It’s not an easy thing to achieve, but can be done with careful analysis and planning, with a few iterations along the way.

Dizz · Jun 7, 2022

Seamaster on World Oceans Day
(Just coincidence)

Watch my Whisky · Jun 7, 2022

69 in your face

Mad Dog · Jun 7, 2022

Lou P
Thought I'd share the original box.

...and user manual/pamphlet, which is in French, and despite the watch being a 105.012-65 purchased in March 1967, still shows the CK2915!

YaY!