The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[savagewind]

Six 19th C Etched Mother Pearl EQUESTRIAN Buttons Horse Racing FIRMIN Abalone | eBay

 

[savagewind]

A charm string is a collected bunch of buttons that a lady strung together circa 1900. The goal was to collect 999 buttons and ask the man she would marry for the last button to make 1000.

AUTHENTIC RARE ANTIQUE BUTTON CHARM STRING 12 FT LONG! FROM AN ESTATE COLLECTION | eBay

 

[savagewind]

So, I am thinking about farming buttons. How can I not? Old buttons can be found in the ground and some of those with cleaning will come back. The others that look ruined can be sold if they are rare.

 

[Revoltingest]

Button collecting is weird....unlike my babbitt ingot collection.

A typical ingot....

I haven't figured how to display them.
They're gawdawful heavy.

 

[savagewind]

I looked it up, but I still don't know what it is.

(1922) A novel by Sinclair Lewis. The title character, an American real estate agent in a small city, is portrayed as a crass, loud, overoptimistic boor who thinks only about money and speaks in clichés, such as “You've gotta have pep, by golly!”

 

[Revoltingest]

I looked it up, but I still don't know what it is.

Babbitt is a special metalused to cast (melt in place) bearings in machinery.
Manufacturers & repairmen would buy it in ingot form.
It's still used.
Babbitt (alloy) - Wikipedia

 

[savagewind]

Babbitt is a special metalused to cast (melt in place) bearings in machinery.
Manufacturers & repairmen would buy it in ingot form.
It's still used.
Babbitt (alloy) - Wikipedia

Is a bearing a marble type thing?

 

[savagewind]

I think it is wonderful! I also collect things that have words on them.

 

[Revoltingest]

Is a bearing a marble type thing?

A ball bearing uses "marble" like balls.

But babbitt bearings are "plain bearings", which can be thought of as just slippery surfaces in which a shaft rotates.

 

[Wu Wei]

Needless to say, sorting buttons is not boring.

Yup, I was right...you don't get out much

 

[Revoltingest]

Yup, I was right...you don't get out much

Says the guy who has been lying in a state of torpor in his cave for 3 months.

 

[Wu Wei]

A ball bearing uses "marble" like balls.

But babbitt bearings are "plain bearings", which can be thought of as just slippery surfaces in which a shaft rotates.

You forgot some barrel bearing you retired Scottish deadbeat

http://www.bearing-needle.com/images/convex+Rollers.jpg

and needle bearings too

http://www.engineerlive.com/sites/e..._needle_roller_bearing_LR_0.JPG?itok=P5G7pbkm

I gave up trying to post the pictures, every single one of them kept coming up with a red x though it, so you got links...click em'

 

[Revoltingest]

You forgot some barrel bearing you retired Scottish deadbeat

I didn't forget "roller bearings" & "needle bearings" at all.
There are other kinds of bearings too.
I just didn't want to complicate things further.

Btw, it's interesting that your pic only displays when I look at your quoted post.

 

[Wu Wei]

Says the guy who has been lying in a state of torpor in his cave for 3 months.

Yup, but that is only 3 months.... you don't see me doing it for 12 months do you....the whole button thing I am guessing is year around

 

[Wu Wei]

Btw, it's interesting that your pic only displays when I look at your quoted post.

That is why I gave up trying to post them, and I tried several too. All came up that way

 

[Revoltingest]

Yup, but that is only 3 months.... you don't see me doing it for 12 months do you....the whole button thing I am guessing is year around

I think I just figured out what Hell is like.

 

[Wu Wei]

I think I just figured out what Hell is like.

Good

Here ya go...start sorting

Oh SURE!!! I can post pictures of BUTTONS!!!!! but not bearings....its a CONSPIRACY I TELLS YA

 

[savagewind]

Some of those match.

 

[Revoltingest]

Some of those match.

Surely, you have a gift!

 

[Wu Wei]

you can farm buttons...button mushrooms