My original 18k wedding band nearly wore through after 35 years (just typed "tears", is that an honest typo or a Freudian slip... lol). Anyway, recently I replaced it w/an inexpensive tungsten carbide band. I wear the real one when not working or if we go out, etc.
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Funny you mention the wear problem. My Great Grandfather's ring (18k) that I wear has been to the jewelers a couple of time over the years to have gold added to the underside because it had worn so thin just from normal wear.
My flask that shipped from 3fvape on 3/6 still hasn't made it past USSFOF and hasn't appeared on USPS tracking. Is anybody else in the same boat? I know at least a few flasks shipped the same day made it through early last week. At what point should I make a fuss? This is my first Chinese order of this type so I'm not sure what to expect.
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What fuss - so far it sounds like you package is doing GREAT! If you show in USPS tracking your home free.
Mine shipped out 3/5 and I got it in the mail Saturday 3/14
but it took it 3 days to get 300 miles from San Antonio to Houston guess the USPS still have mail men on foot
Well that is a whole other can of worms. I can't say under these new conditions but as long as it is moving I don't think you have much to worry about except patience.
ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS) doesn't break any speed records uploading their scan data.
9 days! That has to be a world record or something!Mine shipped out 3/5 and I got it in the mail Saturday 3/14
but it took it 3 days to get 300 miles from San Antonio to Houston guess the USPS still have mail men on foot
Yeah but my order was placed on 2/18 just before CNY so 4 days shy of a month total.
Well now you guys put me in doubt. Just yesterday I was checking out some earnings my wife "had to have" and they definitely were 24k and in the same division there were other jewelries also labeled as 24.Tony,
That is bizarre, 24k is pure gold it is Sooo soft and subject to wear. Also it is a bear to work with molten 24k gold has an incredible amount of surface tension. When I had to make Gold gaskets from 18 AWG or 12 AWG 24k wire trying to fuse the ends together to form a circular gasket was like a Houdini trick. There must be about 2 degrees between the plastic state and completely molten state. Once the gold goes molten the surface tension INSTANLY pulls the cold into a droplet that is as tall as it is wide. The description of the droplet is another one of my definitions that I don't seem to have the words to describe. Anyway the trick to welding gold is to have the two ends perfectly butted together and roll the dice with you torch and pray it joins one end to the other and not pull back into a puddle on one end or both.
That said I am not a Jeweler of course and I am sure that someone that has done it for years doesn't experience the problems I did. Also I have heard in some places solid gold jewelry is their version of a savings account. Which sounds pretty good until someone makes a withdrawal and takes your finger with it.
PS - I wear a ring that belonged to my great grandfather and I took it into a jeweler to have it cleaned and the diamonds reset. The jeweler notice it was 18k and asked me if it was from Europe because even 18k in not all that common in jewelry here. Also he told me that a lot of gold from pre WWII that came from the Europe was a very high purity but it was the only way to get the family wealth out of Europe.
I'm going to check the certificate of my wedding ring when I get home. I can't read those damn letters / numbers marks inside the ring. Probably only with high magnification glass.
Btw, you guys also use 3 colors of gold in jewelry? White, yellow and redish? The earrings I was referring to, we're redish but actually my ring is made from white and yellow. Not sure if Karats relate also to color but as I said, going to check at home :/
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Ordered my flask from 3fvape just now. Here's to hoping it doesn't take a month to get it.
Earrings wouldn't be a problem being 24k but for the most part, chains, bracelets, rings, etc, (here in the states at least) are usually not over 18k, as much for durability as anything else- well, besides cost that is. When the gold prices spiked a while back I bought a precious metal test kit to test the collection of old and broken jewelry I had collected through the years, made a tidy sum from what was relatively worthless for the most part. I mean, what good is a dozen broken pieces of mismatched chain for instance? lol Anyway, if there's any doubt in your mind it's easy to check the purity. For that matter, any decent jeweler or pawn shop should be able to test it for you if need be. The process does involve removal of a small amount of metal by rubbing the sample on a piece of ceramic. But I'm guessing you already know all that...
The coloured golds are mixed with other metals, mostly copper for the red, so it's at most 18k.
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Mine is shipping out in 48 hours too. Ordered on March 11th. Got an email yesterday from an CS rep at FC named: Eleven. Told me that the one I picked out, a Blue VF V3 with no USB port was no longer available from Kangxin and would I take one with a USB port. I told him(?) yes. Also requested that I would prefer the Black model. Same SKU as yours.
Maybe now we will see some action on the order tracking page lol. Gues I'll give one to my wife now. Apparently I forgot I had bid on an authentic flask on ebay a week or so ago (gotta stop drinking and ebaying) and thanks to automatic bids I won the auction... oh well at least its Silver so its a different color. Ive gone from no flasks to there In two days hahaha
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after over 5 weeks of waiting i have finallllllyyy got mine. So far so good, temp is working great, finish is also good.
will be testing these
1)Temp control - WORKED 420,430 dry cotton. No burn, barely any colour change.
2)Battery
3)USB Charging
Give me couple more days of playing around, but so far its good on my UD goblin
will be testing these
1)Temp control - WORKED 420,430 dry cotton. No burn, barely any colour change.
2)Battery
3)USB Charging
Give me couple more days of playing around, but so far its good on my UD goblin
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