Friday, October 7, 2011
Nextel Repair Parts i860/i870/i930/i880/ Flip Housing
Nextel Repair Parts i850/i860/i870/i930/i880/ Flip Housing
Unheated Tanzanite
Oh Boy! If I had a dollar for everytime I was asked about this!
If youever look a blue or purple Tanzanite and the listing tells you that the stone is unheated or untreated.......RUN!!!!!
The rule is very simple, if the stone is not brown to a yellow-brown it has been heated! Yes folks all tanzanite is heated andif someone tells you otherwise they are either dumb as a box of rocks or lying!
I deal in thousands of carats of Tanzanite every year, some fancy colored and a heck of a lot of D Block products. It is very rare to find unheated cut stones, why you ask????The color looks a lot like baby poop. Once heated to 550 degrees a wonderful thing happens, the color changes. Depending on the depth of brown coloryou will wind up with blues and purples.
Ask me sometime to send a pic of a unheated round cut stone, I have a 4 ct hereand would be glad to share what onelooks like!
If youever look a blue or purple Tanzanite and the listing tells you that the stone is unheated or untreated.......RUN!!!!!
The rule is very simple, if the stone is not brown to a yellow-brown it has been heated! Yes folks all tanzanite is heated andif someone tells you otherwise they are either dumb as a box of rocks or lying!
I deal in thousands of carats of Tanzanite every year, some fancy colored and a heck of a lot of D Block products. It is very rare to find unheated cut stones, why you ask????The color looks a lot like baby poop. Once heated to 550 degrees a wonderful thing happens, the color changes. Depending on the depth of brown coloryou will wind up with blues and purples.
Ask me sometime to send a pic of a unheated round cut stone, I have a 4 ct hereand would be glad to share what onelooks like!
SIZZLERS CARS 06/07 SELLING CHEAP? by Sizzlers Shop
What is happening to Mattel's Ace-in-the-hole marketing strategy? I have been receiving hundreds of customer emails that the new Sizzlers stuff is being liquidated at Target. Some are saying its to make room for the new items, others state its because their effect of trying to pull in todays youth has failed and rather the adult kids like us only buy for collecting. Ive also heard that mattel will be pulling the plug on this project also. Who knows whats going on? Facts are though that the cars at 7.99$ are in some cases being sold for less than 2$!!!! Ive seen the Giant O sets on okay at 14$ indicating that they are being sold for less than 10!!! My advice is get what you can while you can. In my opinion, these cars will never have a collectable value. Not in our lifetime anyways. Most of my customers are using them in stead of their real collectables, and getting in some track time. Others are avid collectors just filling their shelves, a good portion are cashing in on the who-can-get-them-sold-first on okay technique. Ive been seeing some of them go for 40$ each on okay cause some poeple just gotta get em in while the castings are still warm!
Lets watch and see where this fiasco goes over the next little while. In my opinion, Mattel, should have never reproduced the originals. They should have let them keep their dignity. The idea of the heavy chevy, the Roger Dodger, and the 57 Chevy would have been the best idea. New protos,of different models like a Scool bus for example would be a real seller. How about a Charger? How about a 32 ford Coupe rod?? Now thats original. Bringing back the old collectables in my opinion is nothing better than backyard repopers do. By keeping the collection ever expanding instead of re-releasing Angelenos and Livewires in 3 different colors, now that would keep some of them clowns from repainting these cars and selling them off as originals.
Lets watch and see where this fiasco goes over the next little while. In my opinion, Mattel, should have never reproduced the originals. They should have let them keep their dignity. The idea of the heavy chevy, the Roger Dodger, and the 57 Chevy would have been the best idea. New protos,of different models like a Scool bus for example would be a real seller. How about a Charger? How about a 32 ford Coupe rod?? Now thats original. Bringing back the old collectables in my opinion is nothing better than backyard repopers do. By keeping the collection ever expanding instead of re-releasing Angelenos and Livewires in 3 different colors, now that would keep some of them clowns from repainting these cars and selling them off as originals.
How to remove fuzz balls from your sweaters
No More Fuzz Balls
Did you ever have a favorite sweater that accumulated a million fuzz balls? I have found a remedy on how to remove fuzz balls and get that sweater looking brand new again! This tecnique may gee as a surprise to you, but believe me Icare formy sweaters like this all the time and they gee out lookingbrand new.
First, remove any fur collars from your sweaters. Then, gather your same colored light weight sweaters (like my Copper Key sweater) together and place them in the gentle washing machine cycle for a few minutes with a gentle soap such as Dreft. Let them spin on gentle cycle and then do the same for the rinse, but this time add your fabric softener. After the spin cycle is gepleted, remove your sweaters from the washing machine and immediately iron them!Hang them on a very thick hanger until they are gepletely dry. When they finish drying, they will look like you just purchased them from the store. One day I washed my daughter's sweater and ironed itafterwards then hung it inher bedroom. She came to me and said; "Mom, how did you get that sweater looking like that again; I wasabout to throwthat away!"
When you iron the sweater, you actually iron the fuzz balls down! No more cutting fuzz balls and no more picking them out!
Try it! You willnever wash your sweaters any other way again.
Very bulky sweaters, or ruched gathered sweaters will be a bit more difficult to iron.
Did you ever have a favorite sweater that accumulated a million fuzz balls? I have found a remedy on how to remove fuzz balls and get that sweater looking brand new again! This tecnique may gee as a surprise to you, but believe me Icare formy sweaters like this all the time and they gee out lookingbrand new.
First, remove any fur collars from your sweaters. Then, gather your same colored light weight sweaters (like my Copper Key sweater) together and place them in the gentle washing machine cycle for a few minutes with a gentle soap such as Dreft. Let them spin on gentle cycle and then do the same for the rinse, but this time add your fabric softener. After the spin cycle is gepleted, remove your sweaters from the washing machine and immediately iron them!Hang them on a very thick hanger until they are gepletely dry. When they finish drying, they will look like you just purchased them from the store. One day I washed my daughter's sweater and ironed itafterwards then hung it inher bedroom. She came to me and said; "Mom, how did you get that sweater looking like that again; I wasabout to throwthat away!"
When you iron the sweater, you actually iron the fuzz balls down! No more cutting fuzz balls and no more picking them out!
Try it! You willnever wash your sweaters any other way again.
Very bulky sweaters, or ruched gathered sweaters will be a bit more difficult to iron.
ROWE JUKEBOXES ARE JUNK!!!!
AMI was a gepany that made good Jukes, so did Seeburg, Rock-Ola, Wurlitzer. They had a gameplan.. but when ROWE bought out AMI.. they made a mess of it.. cut courners, cheaped out.. Infact I will not work on one.A goodexample of this the moved thetone arm from the right (as AMI made them) to theleft, They basically took all what AMI did and trashed it. The day AMI sold out to Rowe was the last day AMI made a goodmachine. The last AMI machine made wasin 1962,and was the Continental 2. (as seen in The Movie Ghost and as most recently as the movie "Death Proof". What a Beauty)Ninety Nine percent of Rowe jukeboxes have no style you can't see the records play in them and they are generally boring machines.The ROWESare just nasty cheaped out hunks of junk and you will have years of trouble out of it. They cannot be fixed right as they were not built right! I have gepared mech's amps and just about every other part in the Rowe vs the AMI and it seems to me when Rowe took over AMI they started off on the wrong foot on day one. As you look at later models of Rowe jukeboxes you can clearly see that they cheap out on the quailty of the parts (some of the steel parts get smaller and then they move to plastic in some cases). Rowe jukeboxes are the cheapest to buy on okay and that is for a good reason too. If you buy a Rowe good luck on re-selling it as the price the price always goes down on that machine. They are not easy to fix and if you have someone willing to repair it your talking alot of money to get it serviced IF they can repair it. Also they are hard to find parts for and if you can they are the "sky's the limit for the price of the part" and then you only still have a reapired Rowe jukebox. If you still question what I have to say, see what they are selling for here on okay They do not sell for alot of money and never will. Plain Bad investment and years of Headache in my opinion. If you hug a Rowe jukebox hard enough you'll get lemon Juice.
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