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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 8:12 pm
not that kind of test you goofy dawg!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 8:24 pm
Oopsie. Um, I also knocked it over when I was getting ready to wash it. It passed that test too. Okay, here is the mark:
Did not see it in any of the glass marks at the website posted by Colordeagua and Slothkitten. It came closest to the one at second to last row, far right.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 8:53 pm
So, don't you be making fun of Ford. AMEN SISTER!!!! Bought my Escort in 97 - 21 miles on it. In 2003 my brother had a stroke and drove it in the ditch. 2 months later, at 125,000 miles we put front breaks [something like $60 cuz hubby did it] and then got the exhaust pipe fixed that brother broke - $60.00. at 150,000 miles we took it in for tires, and it needed 2nd set of front brakes, first set of back brakes, 1st alignment, tie rod ends. Cost minus 4 tires was $475.00. So that's almost $600 spent on the car in the 10 years [May 30th] I've owned it. Of course that's not counting the normal oil, filters, tires, and wiper blades. When I brought it back to Iowa from Kentucky when we moved in January I was disappointed in the gas mileage. Only 38 mpg. I used to get 42mpg on the interstate. Just turned over 190,000 miles on it and while I probably would be afraid to drive the 10 hours to Kentucky again I have no qualms driving it the 1 1/2 hours to my folk's house. Nothing wrong with a Ford if you treat it right. P.S. My dad's F100 pick up he bought in 1986 has 325,000 miles on it. It's a great farm truck now. My uncle bought a Chevy pickup the same week my dad bought this Ford. They live in the same town and used to work at the same place, and have the same basic driving habits. Chevy was traded in at 70,000 because it was having too many problems.
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 6:01 am
Juju, that's a cool looking mark . . I looked under planets, circles, lines, etc . . good luck with your search and yay for yard sales.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 9:06 am
Thanks for helping out, Slothkitten. I am just curious. I am going to use them for everyday and not worry about breaking them even if they turn out to be fine crystal. And come to think of it, Bigdog and I have a 1988 Ford Bronco that we have had ever since it had just a few miles on it, and it only started having things go wrong with it two years ago when it was 17 years old and we drove it 5000 miles to Texas and back. I don't know what we were thinking driving it that far, other than that it had never had much wrong with it. We had a new radiator put in before we departed, and it turned out to be a bad radiator and we had to replace it in Texas. And then something else broke down when we got 150 miles from home on the way back, and we got stranded overnight in a hotel while they fixed it for about $900. And now it has major oil leaks for another $900 if we were to fix it, but we've had a pretty good almost 20 years out of it. I think it has around 130,000 miles. Bigdog just uses it now for short hauling trips around town and up the driveway into the back yard.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 9:17 am
juju, i sent you an email.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 9:33 am
Awww come on, let the rest of us know too! I'm curious! Actually what I'm more curious about is just what "tests" one does on a wine glass!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 9:37 am
Vaca, love your car!!! LOL Who! and I agree!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:17 am
lol you nuts! okay, here is part of the email i sent juju. "Thanks for the marking picture, I also need a front on shot, so that I can determine if it is a water goblet, a low goblet, or a wine glass. And if it is a wine glass, I need to know if it is a balloon, a claret, or one of the many types of wine glasses. I also would like the dimensions: base to lip, across the base, across the lip, and from the base to the shoulder (the largest part of the glass). Markings will only get you so much." one of the tests (which i hadn't gotten to yet) is to fill it with water and do a rim test. that is to wet your finger and rub around the top of the glass to see if it is just glass or it is lead crystal. also by having a picture i can tell if it has a cut or a rolled rim. this will determine if it is a molded glass or a blown glass. bet you guys didn't expect so much information on wine glasses.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:45 am
Its fascinating landi! When you fill the glass with water, and run a wet finger across the rim, what results determine whether its glass or lead crystal? Is there a sound, or a feel? Or what. Not that I have any wine glasses to experiment on, but....(or does it work with any glass item?).
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 11:57 am
Hahahahaha, I think we should answer it on the board too for the edification of all wineglass conoisseurs. Thanks for alerting me to the e-mail. Lately I have been turning off Yahoo Messenger, because I think when it goes to check for new messages, it somehow makes my current window inactive, and that is highly annoying if I am typing and the window became inactive a few sentences back. Okay, let me go measure and then polish one up and take a picture. Heh, this could be one of those cases where the photographer will have to be careful taking the picture to see what shows up in the reflection. I will check to see that I have clothes on first. Okay, I have clothes on. Bigdog did a ping test, and it has a nice resonance. This is the same glass, just different backgrounds and different angles. The longer looking stem is actually the more accurate picture. I should have put a ruler in there, didn't think of it.
It is hard to tell if the top is rolled. If it is rolled, it is the very slightest of rolls, very, very slight. It could be a cut. Base to lip: 7-1/2" Across base: 3-1/8" Across lip: 2-3/4" Base to shoulder: 5-1/4" Is anybody else as excited as Whoami, Pamy, and I are about this? LOL.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 12:02 pm
A crystal glass emits a high-pitched tone when a wet fingertip is run along the rim of the glass. i could give you a very scientific explanation of what is called "self-excited" vibration and why the molecules are doing what is doing, but just understand that only crystal makes the sound. so juju, do this test, to see if it is crystal. btw, the tone should be between an E and an F. if you know music that is oh and the 3 wavy lines is the symbol for water btw. so if that helps the people looking at glass marks.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 12:44 pm
No, I do not know music at all, so wouldn't know the notes. Bigdog might, but he is out working. Okay, so I ran the wet finger around, and it produces a clear and loud ringing. So I got out another wine glass, and it produced a somewhat similar tone but with breaks in the ringing. BUT, that glass could be crystal. It is another beautiful and delicate glass of suspect pedigree. So I got out a third wine glass that I am awfully darned sure is not crystal. It produces a sound like somebody trying to make a ringing sound by rubbing their wet finger on glass.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 12:52 pm
juju, after you do the empty glass test (the note should be between an E and an F, do a half full glass test. Fill the glass half full of water (to the shoulder), and redo the test. it should be a the perfect pitch of E i'm going out, but when i get back, i'll have holly film me and we'll youtube what it should sound like.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 1:36 pm
wow this stuff is facininating!! I am going to go do that ring test on some of my glasses
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 3:36 pm
I'm riveted.. I wish I hadn't given my mom and dad's really nice crystal wine glasses to my ex. Just so I could test them.. They did make a nice sound though. They were hand blown.
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 3:59 pm
I agree with the facination !
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 5:19 pm
i picked a glass that i knew was crystal, and uploaded this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7s95nQx2xM
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-22-2004
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 5:44 pm
oooo oooo somebody I know is on youtube!!! how exciting...
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 5:47 pm
Is it possible the mark is just to indicate that it's a water glass? So those who set the table know which glass is which?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 6:35 pm
Nice, landi! Like the pepsi carton too..
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Sunday, May 13, 2007 - 6:40 pm
costa, you are correct in that it is a water goblet. it is not a wine glass. the dimensions verify this. i'm sure whoever sold them to you thought they were wine glasses, and didn't know this. juju, although they are crystal glasses, there is nothing extremely distinctive to the glasses. the balloon of the glass isn't for either chardonnay or cabernet, but is for water. it would normally be placed to the left of the wine glass in a formal setting.
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Justavice
Member
11-22-2005
| Monday, May 14, 2007 - 5:19 pm
I am having a complete CRS moment and I can't sleep until I figure it out!! Within the last two months, someone posted a very interesting article (I am pretty sure it was posted in News and Views). The article kind of put the casualties and effect of the war in Iraq in perspective as compared to the World Wars and Vietnam. If anyone remembers this, or can direct me to the link, I will be forever grateful and able to sleep! I have googled until I could google no more and I know the TVCHers will come through for me as they always respond in droves to pleas for help. Thank you in advance!!!!

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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, May 14, 2007 - 5:49 pm
These are unlikely to be the links you wanted, but some of these look very interesting and might help get you get to sleep anyway! Google search Also the link of the first post of this might be the one, although it doesn't seem to go as far as Iraq. Timeline link
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Justavice
Member
11-22-2005
| Monday, May 14, 2007 - 5:59 pm
Thanks Kitt! I didn't see this particular article in your links, but thank you for trying! I emailed it to my dad after I read it, so I'm kind of hoping he still has it in his archives and will send it to me. Thanks again!!
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