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Friday night and the EggHead Forum option of the forum choices is eerie quiet- I need to get a life!

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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,622
    Was 🍌 for scale pics a fad?
    canuckland
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    Canugghead said:
    Was 🍌 for scale pics a fad?
    Bet it’s still in vogue on Tinder. 
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  • johnmitchell
    johnmitchell Posts: 7,354
    GrateEggspectations said:
    Canugghead said:
    Was 🍌 for scale pics a fad?
    Bet it’s still in vogue on Tinder. 
    And Grinder🤔
    Greensboro North Carolina
    When in doubt Accelerate....
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    johnmitchell said:
    GrateEggspectations said:
    Canugghead said:
    Was 🍌 for scale pics a fad?
    Bet it’s still in vogue on Tinder. 
    And Grinder🤔
    Have you ever seen the Conan O’Brien segments where he joins Tinder, and Grinder, respectively? Quite funny. 


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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,329
    Throbbing, prickly engineering problem this Friday eve.  
    I bought some new reading glasses for the dinner table a couple weeks ago, and they always had a black smudge across the lens about 2/3rds down; took them off to see what it was but then I couldn't see anything (getting old sucks).  I finally went to another room and picked up those reading glasses, and saw that my new ones had a clear plastic oval on them, printed with "Remove before Use".  
    No problem.  I could see the edge of the oval and picked at it with my fingernail, no luck at dislodging it.  Grabbed my metal letter opener and carefully tried to peel it off, no luck.  Grabbed a sharp needle to again peel it off, no luck and now there's scratches across that plastic oval, and possibly my new reading glasses.
    Got the idea to boil some water in a pot, immerse the glasses, and see if the heat would dislodge the plastic ovals.  But, the frames are metal and would quickly expand, and possibly release the plastic lenses before anything happened to the stickers.  
     
    Damn, this pisses me off.  (I bought a three-pak of these glasses for spares, so they'll all have the same issue)  First-world, wild Friday Night retiree issues.  Any ideas, guys?  :confused:
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • zaphod
    zaphod Posts: 1,011
    ask a neighbour with younger eyes and fingernails.
    ~~
    Large BGE, Jonesing for a MiniMax
    The Vegegrilltarian

    The first rule of egg club is: you do NOT talk about egg club.
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,622
    @botch Try hair dryer with a small nozzle attachment, use a cardboard with hole-in-the-middle to protect the frame.
    canuckland
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  • Buckwoody Egger
    Buckwoody Egger Posts: 1,466
    edited October 11
    hey botch look for plastic razor blades.  they are scratch proof scrapers and i use them for all kinds of stuff. 
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,329
    Thanks guys.
    @zaphod, my neighbors draw the drapes and kill the lights if I walk up their driveway.
    @Canugghead, I don't have a hair dryer (and my battery BGE "blower" died a couple years ago),
    @Buckwoody Egger, never heard of them!  Will be looking around tomorrow.  
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,652
    And here I am looking for high drama-Good luck @Botch.  
    You've got this!
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,329
    lousubcap said:
    And here I am looking for high drama-Good luck @Botch.  
    You've got this!
    :lol:
    “High drama”… I’m in the wrong place  :D  
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    Any chance Goo Gone might help dissolve the adhesive? As others have said, I’d be using plastic implements to try to scrape it off. Good luck!
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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,883
    Hot soapy water on a sponge. It doesn’t have to be boiling
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • Buckwoody Egger
    Buckwoody Egger Posts: 1,466
    edited October 11
    Botch the ones i have are orange.

    home depot has some (anvil brand) that are grey. the pool of great reviews is counter weighted with 1 star reviews by people surprised the grey ones weren’t metal. 

    seeing people make that mistake and seek revenge with a bad review is as “recent american” as it gets. 
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,622
    @Botch
    If you have a heat gun, you can use lowest heat setting and increase the distance.

    Another idea...chill the underside of the lens with ice cubes, then pour hot water over the sticker with a Gestura 😂 By the time the water reaches the frame it would've lost its energy.
    canuckland
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    Canugghead said:
    @Botch
    If you have a heat gun, you can use lowest heat setting and increase the distance.

    Another idea...chill the underside of the lens with ice cubes, then pour hot water over the sticker with a Gestura 😂 By the time the water reaches the frame it would've lost its energy.
    +1 for the Gestura. The sheer awesomeness may intimidate the sticker right off the lens. 
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,622
    GrateEggspectations said:
    Any chance Goo Gone might help dissolve the adhesive? As others have said, I’d be using plastic implements to try to scrape it off. Good luck!
    Nay, adhesive is not exposed. 
    canuckland
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,329
    Ran water in the sink until hot (125º) and that didn't do anything.  Looks like I'll have to pick up some plastic razors.
    This kinda makes me mad, it's us old folks with bad eyesight who have to buy reading glasses, and this weirdo company makes them pointlessly difficult to use.  
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • Buckwoody Egger
    Buckwoody Egger Posts: 1,466
    edited October 12
    botch - an AI response offered up tape as a solution. so maybe if you grab a long strip of scotch tape or packing tape. then attach the end of the strip near one edge of the shipping film and pulled parallel to the lens towards the opposite edge, the adhesion tug of war would lift it off.

    have not researched the temperature in shipping containers and the melting point of lens shipping film— at which point they would fused all the way to the landfill. boredom can have limits!!

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,541
    Try vodka
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    fishlessman said:
    Try vodka
    Good thinking. Then the sticker just won’t bother him. 
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,329
    Buckwoody Egger said:
    botch - an AI response offered up tape as a solution. so maybe if you grab a long strip of scotch tape or packing tape. then attach the end of the strip near one edge of the shipping film and pulled parallel to the lens towards the opposite edge, the adhesion tug of war would lift it off.

    have not researched the temperature in shipping containers and the melting point of lens shipping film— at which point they would fused all the way to the landfill. boredom can have limits!!

    >Ding!< >Ding!< >Ding!< >Ding!<   I owe this man a beer!  
     
    Scotch tape didn't do it, but the packing tape did.  Thank you, Sir!   :)
    "First method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
           - Niccolo Machiavelli

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • BeanHead
    BeanHead Posts: 734
    @Botch this is as bad as a razor knife trapped in plastic you need a razor knife to liberate. Also… I hate stickers on stuff. 
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,622
    It's not Friday but we need something to distract from reading glasses, efiles, whatever...

    canuckland
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    Just delving into a new novel. 


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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    I am back and I am sure to enrage all. Thank you for hosting!
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,622
    bump
    canuckland
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  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,316
    johnmitchell said:
    First week of retirement in the books. Might have to curtail the cocktails as every evening has felt like a Friday 🥃😂 Nah!!!
    While reading this Jimmy Buffet happens to be playing Margarita Ville on the radio. That means tequila is the beverage of choice tonight.
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 11,508
    johnmitchell said:
    First week of retirement in the books. Might have to curtail the cocktails as every evening has felt like a Friday 🥃😂 Nah!!!
    Toasting you tonight, John!
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