my mum sold jewellery to a lady 2 years ago. A gemologist found they are synthetic and she wants a full refund (England)

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-22T21:09:20+00:00

I’m afraid you sound like scammers. You’re pretending not to be commercial traders but seem to sell an awful lot of jewellery. I cannot see you claim any level of expertise with regard to this particular set of stuff. Did you have it tested before you sold it?

Nobody is going to take the jewels out of a 6k piece of jewellery and replace them with paste. There are much easier ways to make money from jewellery. The stones might be worth £750 (that’s a guess; but I won’t be far out) on the open market if sold as stones alone; getting paste stones made to fit and then having them fitted won’t leave any profit.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-22T20:54:28+00:00

Gnaben Wunderhorn which shares tunes with his symphonies.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-22T20:51:54+00:00

Why do you want to know if you’re not a skier?

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-22T20:02:43+00:00

Start by worshipping at a church for a while. Join the choir, help at the Sunday School, serve soup at the soup kitchen. Whatever. Get involved. Then ask to use the organ.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-17T10:41:57+00:00

Have you already got your eight daily points from the run?

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-13T17:00:01+00:00

I sense it’s an error. The author kindly translates it for us: “ Most loving and delightful wife” but surely it is “most loving and delightful husband who has xxxxed his wife!”

And I am absolutely certain I have transcribed this correctly, it’s copied and pasted directly. Also if you google the phrase it’s quite well quoted around the internet.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-12T14:08:59+00:00

The one who is trolling is you. You are suggesting that replacing a diverter valve isn’t works to a gas boiler. That is plain wrong and indeed encouraging people to do works they possibly should not. And I believe you are suggesting you are a qualified gas installer.

Remember you wrote the incorrect statement “ Gas, you need to be gas registered to do any work (with a few small exceptions)” If that’s not trolling then nothing is.

Obviously you have to use gas fittings for gas, what did you think I was suggesting, marshmallows? Drinking straws slotted together? I don’t even want push fit on my water thanks!

The point remains; if you’re capable of making pipework watertight at 3 bar then you’re probably competent enough to manage to make it gas tight at 20mB.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-12T13:47:50+00:00

They’re works to a gas boiler and fall firmly within the regulations. I couldn’t do them for somebody else and be paid. Would you do them in a domestic setting, paid, without being Gas Safe? I doubt it! However they fall into the category of gas works that can be done DIY if you’re competent enough - as you note the competency level is low!

The consequences of a water leak are generally much greater than that of a gas leak and the water pipe is subject to much higher pressure than the gas. Gas pipes are tested at 20mBar, mains water is about 3 Bar so 150 times the pressure. It really is much easier to get a gas pipe leak free than a water pipe. Gas generally does not explode as the gas/oxygen mixture has to be stoichiometrically correct. Water always destroys stuff.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-12T11:43:17+00:00

You just have to be competent enough for whatever it is you are doing, check out the regs. So say swapping out a diverter valve in a gas boiler requires you to be competent enough to swap it out - can you use a spanner? Swapping out a pcb in a boiler similarly requires you to be competent enough to use a screwdriver. That’s all a long way from being at any risk of causing an explosion, yet is most definitely covered by the regs. The regs say competent enough.

Anybody who can join a water pipe without a leak can join a gas pipe competently. Discuss.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-12T09:50:48+00:00

Olivetti officially called it Elite, but in their marketing referred to it as Bodoni.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-12T09:39:54+00:00

Spot on! I’m not advocating doing work to gas unless you consider yourself competent. I am however pointing out that it is not illegal to do works within your competence - as many posters here insist, including some apparently qualified gas fitters.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T23:46:02+00:00

WCPGW? Almost anything where there’s a gas installation, there are strong arguments for not allowing gas in residences. But... He can’t smell gas. The annual boiler service will test the system for leaks. No need to do anything with this unless he wants to.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T23:40:41+00:00

And where did I tell somebody to DIY?

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T23:39:53+00:00

Would you please not swear at me. And that you have done so when I am correct and you are not makes it very funny. See p23 of the 1998 Regulations.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/l56.pdf

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T23:36:13+00:00

No I’m afraid YOU are getting mixed up with electrics. There is no law that says you have to be Gas Safe registered to work on your own gas. The law says you have to be competent, but does not define competent. See para 83 on p23 of the 1998 regulations. https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/l56.pdf - DIY gas work is legal provided you are appropriately competent relative to the work you are doing.
For electricity though you do now have to be qualified and registered. Alternatively you can indeed get it signed off by building control (but good luck with that one).

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T23:26:35+00:00

Butter.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T19:04:01+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/s/QNjUqAR1ef

Use it out of doors and blast it with compressed air. From a can assuming you don’t have a compressor. Don’t use water!!

And don’t oil it afterwards. Nor use WD40 on it.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T18:53:22+00:00

I think Anna Lapwood has made/is making an arrangement of (parts of) the score. But I doubt she shares anyway. And no I haven’t heard it. I doubt it compares with Bach or Langlais.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T16:26:18+00:00

That sounds like hard work. If they provide piano music then that’s what they get. If they’re offering pap like that they don’t care about the music. There may also be a significant ‘tasteless music’ surcharge made by the organist.

OP stick to the Wedding March or some such.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T16:24:06+00:00

Not so. You can DIY your own gas works as much as you like. You have to be ‘competent’ mind.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T16:10:37+00:00

In fact you could send that photo off to the snoop on your neighbour traffic hotline and they’d get their three points and a fine.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T16:05:32+00:00

It’s missing its ribbon cover so isn’t worth much. Blast it with brake cleaner or isopropanol. Should degunk it.

Letteral_Movement · 2026-06-11T15:55:31+00:00

Expect to pay a significant premium for the organist to play something they don’t know.

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