[Jewelry making - Article 01314] - Re: [Orchid] Cab calibration problems

[Zen Sojourner]

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>     You need a decent caliper and a calculator, that's all.

And a torch!  LOL! 

    I don't have one yet, which is why I was trying to go the pre-made
    setting route.  I've always made my bezels in the past (although
    never that small). 

    I HOPE to have a torch by the end of the month, but given that I
    haven't used a torch but once in the past 15 years, I expect to spend
    at least another month just getting back to the point where I'm not
    melting stuff into unrecognizable globs. 

    A friend is letting me set up a torch station in his garage, which
    has been a godsend as I don't have the money to pour a cement floor
    in the barn for a studio area.  So until he offered me space, I
    hadn't a hope of getting a torch setup in at least the next year. 
    That's been a real life saver, since nearly all of my designs require
    at least SOME soldering.  And especially especially since I'm not too
    hot on the idea of filling up my spot at the co-op with stuff I've
    merely assembled (though it doesn't seem to bother the co-op folks at
    all). Especially not stuff glued onto pads because they wouldn't fit
    in the pre-manufactured settings, LOL! 

    I wanted to thank everyone who responded with so much useful advice
    about this problem. Apparently I had unrealistic expectations about
    cab calibration. Knowing that now, and actually having checked some
    of the prices at Thunderbird versus RG, I've decided that unless
    Thunderbird is less than half the cost of RG, calibration issues
    alone make them uneconomical.  There's also still the unresolved
    contact issue (eg they won't contact me about problems with the
    order, aside from just the calibration problem). 

    I had checked prices between the two before, but just for Malachite
    and something else that slips my mind at the moment, in any case,
    Thunderbird was SLIGHTLY cheaper for those two items but not so much
    as to ring alarm bells in my head. 

    Now had I compared Lapis prices, it would have been a different
    matter, LOL ! 

    In any case, thanks again for all the useful advice. 

Sojourner

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