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Life's Little Pleasures....
We have a jewelry store here in Hoover Alabama. http://jewelers3.com/
One thing we do is buy scrap gold and we advertise that fact on one of the local TV stations in the form of a "business break". It's fairly amazing how well it works. I get to the office at about 7AM and on the mornings the business breaks run I usually start answering the store phone when I come in the door. There's an interesting group of people that call a jewelry store at 7AM thinking it's actually open. This morning one of the girls that works up in the store came back to the offices (our main business is wholesale) right after the store opened and kinda looked around. I asked how I could help her. She held something up and said "I need to get the gold off of this". Turned out it was a whole tooth with a gold crown on it. (dental gold is 16K) I grabbed our hammer, took the tooth and went to the back room where I laid the tooth on the floor and smacked it a few times with the hammer reducing the tooth itself to tooth gravel, liberating the crown. I then washed my hands........repeatedly.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core. |
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at least it was not still in the skull
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David, do you happen to know what dental gold is alloyed with?
Just curious.
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http://download.springer.com/static/...9dfca&ext=.pdf Freaks the girls out...and rightly so.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core. |
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1969 GTO 4spd. Antique Gold/black, gold int. 1969 GTO RAIII 4spd. Verdoro Green/black, black int. 1969 GTO 4spd. Crystal Turquoise, black int. 1970 GTO 4spd VOE Pepper Green, green int. 1967 LeMans 428 Auto. Blue, black int. |
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Greg, that's pretty scary looking.
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1) do you have to by law get ID info from sellers? 2) do you sell gold to general public? 3) do you have to by law get ID info from buyers? 4) how do you price gold when you sell? mark-up over current price? 5) Is the game of buying and selling gold guessing trends then sitting on and selling at right time? |
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Ya, was not very easy to extract either.
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1969 GTO 4spd. Antique Gold/black, gold int. 1969 GTO RAIII 4spd. Verdoro Green/black, black int. 1969 GTO 4spd. Crystal Turquoise, black int. 1970 GTO 4spd VOE Pepper Green, green int. 1967 LeMans 428 Auto. Blue, black int. |
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2. No. We do sell finished jewelry however. 3. No. Our buyer is one of the largest actual refiners in the country however. Not just a smelter. 4. We sell it for a percentage of the current days gold market. 5. Some do that on a different level. Generally the market doesn't move enough to make that worthwhile for us.....at least at the shallow end of the pool we play in.
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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way.... 1969 GTO, 455ci, 230/236 Pontiac Dude's "Butcher Special" Comp hyd roller cam with Crower HIPPO solid roller lifters, Q-jet, Edelbrock P4B-QJ, Doug's headers, ported 6X-8 (97cc) heads, TKO600, 3.73 geared Eaton Tru-Trac 8.5", hydroboost, rear disc brakes......and my greatest mechanical feat....a new heater core. |
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