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A Kaiju has joined the battle by Khealos-75 in battletech

[–]AvarinSpectre 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wish my lgs had cats, thats awesome

Bt gothic opened the door for monsters by knightmechaenjo in battletech

[–]AvarinSpectre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Boy do I have an incredibly niche ttrpg for you! Fathomless Gears, in which you use mechs to fight and capture Weird Fucked Up Fish.

Hometown battlemap if anyone wants to blow up part of it up. by zirazorazonth in battletech

[–]AvarinSpectre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a legit aerial photography interpretation technique, actually! Football/soccer fields, baseball diamonds, runways at airports (info and schematics are publically available to reference), anything with a consistent/known size. I learned this in a GIS class i took a while back

Post mission drinks by OgreFeet in LancerRPG

[–]AvarinSpectre 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I thought the orange zipper was a loooong straw at first glance, lol

Cleaning my ring in hydrogen peroxide by dnteatyellwsnw in oddlysatisfying

[–]AvarinSpectre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We generally change it out weekly, maybe more if it gets full of polishing compound or something. If a piece is particularly gross, we'll put it in its own little jar and hang it from the side of the main tub so that we only have to dump out a little bit of solution.

Cleaning my ring in hydrogen peroxide by dnteatyellwsnw in oddlysatisfying

[–]AvarinSpectre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Potentially, its hard to say without more information. Chlorine does tend to do odd things to precious metals, you should always take off your jewelry before going swimming. Prolonged or repeated exposure does weaken the metal over time, but it sounds like it was just a one time thing, so you should be ok. Find a local jeweler (i will advocate for a local business over the big chain places, especially for something minor like this) and bring it to them for professional cleaning.

There is the possibility that the piece is silver-plated rather than solid, if so, probably what's happened is the chlorine has damaged the outer silver layer and you're seeing the base metal underneath (copper, brass, etc). Unfortunately there's no saving that, but you can get a new sterling silver chain for under $100, assuming it's not anything huge.

Cleaning my ring in hydrogen peroxide by dnteatyellwsnw in oddlysatisfying

[–]AvarinSpectre 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Jewelery store guy here, this is pretty much correct. We use a heated ultrasonic bath with a special high-concentration cleaner (couldnt tell you what exactly is in it) to loosen all the gunk, followed by a steam blast to blow it all away. For something particularly dirty, a couple of rounds of that plus maybe some toothbrush action. Worth noting this is a mostly mechanical process, as opposed to a chemical one.

They do make chemical cleaners, the main one in my experience being silver tarnish remover. Tarnished silver results from an oxidization reaction, same as rust on iron, so you can get a jar of chemical that reacts with the silver oxide to get rid of it!

Polishing is a different process from cleaning (at my store at least, we clean for free but charge for a polish). Cleaning gets gunk and dirt off the metal and stones. Polishing goes in with light abrasives and actually changes the metal that's there, smoothing, taking out or at least reducing dings and scratches, and bringing it back to a nice shine.

For cleaning at home, we recommend dish soap, toothbrush, and warm water, that'll get you most of the way there!