Old framers

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Wed 30 Jan, 2008 3:13 pm

prospero wrote:...I misplaced my faithful 16' tape couple of weeks since. After a few days I started to miss it and bought another one. No sooner did that when the old one turned up.

Tell-tale signs of Aliens at work!

Post by **prospero** » Wed 30 Jan, 2008 3:31 pm

Amazing init? They have the advanced technology to cross the vast intergalactic void and haven't even got their own tape measure.

Or maybe it's the pixies.

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Fri 01 Feb, 2008 11:54 pm

...... cut corners.

Not your average framer · Sat 02 Feb, 2008 8:40 am

Now I've got a new one, I've found the lost rule.

No sign of the missing magnifier, but the new ones are proving useful. My replacement 8x lupe is used for all the usual jobs that the missing one performed. The largest new magnifier has a plastic ring around it to stand on top of what you want to look at, is proving useful for looking up numbers in the phone book or checking morso stop settings later in the day when the old eyes are getting tired.

I also got a folding "Linen tester" type magnifier which I pulled out of my pocket to look at a speck stuck to a customers print brought in for framing. The customer was impressed, mostly with the fact it was a folding one. Perhaps I should consider selling magnifiers.

As you may have guess my eyes are at the age where these things are helpful, but I don't need a zimmer frame yet!

Post by **prospero** » Sat 02 Feb, 2008 10:30 am

Not your average framer wrote:Now I've got a new one, I've found the lost rule.

Told ya.

(permission to look smug.

)

Signs of aging are creeping in. I got a new mobile a while back. One day I could not find it anywhere.

Aha! I know! I'll ring it and listen. Could not remember the number and if I had written it down somewhere I had lost the bit of paper. Ended up ringing the helpline. I had all the contract details on hand: Call centre - "If you are an existing customer, press1".
(pressed 1) - "please input your phone number....".

Not to be defeated I sent them an e-mail. Two weeks later they rang back. Fortunately the phone had turned up in the meantime.....

If I did have a zimmer, I would forget where I parked it.

fineedge · Post by **fineedge** » Mon 04 Feb, 2008 7:37 pm

......have holey t-shirts.

The holes seem to appear just around the gut area which is roughly the same height as the working surface of the table.

Post by **prospero** » Mon 04 Feb, 2008 7:41 pm

Holey T-Shirts Batman!!!

Not your average framer · Mon 04 Feb, 2008 8:57 pm

System 4000 users get holes in their trousers and the same height as the sliding toggle clamp for clamping MDF. Hurts too, when you do it, Ouch!