Go ahead and read it, it's worth your time. 
Here goes:
You try to help people and they get up on their high horse over e-mail. Now you wonder if it was a good idea to try to reach out to them because they seem too darn pig-headed to learn.
It's hard to get people to listen - let alone go out and purchase some materials and then actually take action. It's hard to describe a process on demand and get all the information out there without forgetting details. Then you wonder if by some miracle someone actually read your post, tried your method, and screwed up their most favorite bottle because you (dumb-ass) left something out. And if you don't happen to remember it in 5 minutes you can't edit your post. Bottleheads wearing jack-boot's march in like storm troopers to stomp on your head.
One would think that posting the information once on the forum would be the best way to get it out there.
Wrong.
If you title your thread, "How to Clean Bottles," I can promise you it won't be long before someone else
posts a new thread titled, "How do you Clean Bottle's?" Too lazy to even read what's already there. Unbelievable.
5 years ago I wrote a book about cleaning; actually I shake with sand or bleach to get the heavy clots of crap out and then use the same method as you do to polish the insides. I cut up a plastic clothes hanger though instead of fiberglass rod's, mainly because a lot of them are laying around. Each one of my daughter's has more clothes in their wardrobe than I owned in my entire life.
The book cost about 4 dollars to make and shipping was usually around 7 dollar's so I was asking 14.00 - that way I made 3.00 and wasn't spending a lot of time putting stuff together for everyone in the world for free like an idiot. Many forum members reacted with rage. You would think I was asking for a million dollars. I wish I could remember some of the names I was called, some of them were pretty clever. Bottle collecter's, by and large, seem to be pretty financially strapped. Very unfortunate. I feel their pain.
And as far as tire shine? Who really gives a rat's hiney how you are displaying bottles at your residence. Once I was asked to prove myself so a forum member sent me a broken bottle. It did not go well.
Then another member of the forum sent me a couple bottles to clean that he apparently retrieved from a large body of polluted water in a former industrial site. They were so bad that the first one I gave up on and the other took a lot of time and energy for a modest improvement. He could have just used Tire Shine. Sounds like your a motorhead, Mr. Black Velvet. Anyway the second guy sent 14 bucks for a book so I sent him a free one but I am not sure if it helped him. I think the bottle's he was looking at fixing were pretty far gone.
Half the trick of bottle cleaning is choosing the bottle's wisely. What if you were a doctor and someone brought in a dying victim of gang violence with one foot in the grave and said, "Can you perfecty restore this man's former good health?" And then you have to explain that only Jesus can do that. But if someone comes in with bronchitis you can fix that. It is the same way with bottles. You kind of have to learn how much you can realistically improve a bottle without losing mold seams and some embossing, cracking the bottle, resorting to coatings, etc. That is if you don't have a magic tumbler which will take all of the work out of the process along with the mold seams and embossing. (that's a joke, tumbler people, please don't hunt me down and kill me, I have a family)
(previously posted on Mr. Black Velvet's thread)
Here goes:You try to help people and they get up on their high horse over e-mail. Now you wonder if it was a good idea to try to reach out to them because they seem too darn pig-headed to learn.
It's hard to get people to listen - let alone go out and purchase some materials and then actually take action. It's hard to describe a process on demand and get all the information out there without forgetting details. Then you wonder if by some miracle someone actually read your post, tried your method, and screwed up their most favorite bottle because you (dumb-ass) left something out. And if you don't happen to remember it in 5 minutes you can't edit your post. Bottleheads wearing jack-boot's march in like storm troopers to stomp on your head.
One would think that posting the information once on the forum would be the best way to get it out there.
Wrong.
If you title your thread, "How to Clean Bottles," I can promise you it won't be long before someone else
posts a new thread titled, "How do you Clean Bottle's?" Too lazy to even read what's already there. Unbelievable.
5 years ago I wrote a book about cleaning; actually I shake with sand or bleach to get the heavy clots of crap out and then use the same method as you do to polish the insides. I cut up a plastic clothes hanger though instead of fiberglass rod's, mainly because a lot of them are laying around. Each one of my daughter's has more clothes in their wardrobe than I owned in my entire life.
The book cost about 4 dollars to make and shipping was usually around 7 dollar's so I was asking 14.00 - that way I made 3.00 and wasn't spending a lot of time putting stuff together for everyone in the world for free like an idiot. Many forum members reacted with rage. You would think I was asking for a million dollars. I wish I could remember some of the names I was called, some of them were pretty clever. Bottle collecter's, by and large, seem to be pretty financially strapped. Very unfortunate. I feel their pain.
And as far as tire shine? Who really gives a rat's hiney how you are displaying bottles at your residence. Once I was asked to prove myself so a forum member sent me a broken bottle. It did not go well.
Then another member of the forum sent me a couple bottles to clean that he apparently retrieved from a large body of polluted water in a former industrial site. They were so bad that the first one I gave up on and the other took a lot of time and energy for a modest improvement. He could have just used Tire Shine. Sounds like your a motorhead, Mr. Black Velvet. Anyway the second guy sent 14 bucks for a book so I sent him a free one but I am not sure if it helped him. I think the bottle's he was looking at fixing were pretty far gone.
Half the trick of bottle cleaning is choosing the bottle's wisely. What if you were a doctor and someone brought in a dying victim of gang violence with one foot in the grave and said, "Can you perfecty restore this man's former good health?" And then you have to explain that only Jesus can do that. But if someone comes in with bronchitis you can fix that. It is the same way with bottles. You kind of have to learn how much you can realistically improve a bottle without losing mold seams and some embossing, cracking the bottle, resorting to coatings, etc. That is if you don't have a magic tumbler which will take all of the work out of the process along with the mold seams and embossing. (that's a joke, tumbler people, please don't hunt me down and kill me, I have a family)
(previously posted on Mr. Black Velvet's thread)
