stuck together hinges
I bought a couple packages of Supersafe prefolded stamp hinges. Half of the hinges in both packages had two or three or more hinges stuck together. I was spending more time trying to separate the hinges than mounting the stamps in my album. I decided to try something to help with the problem. I took a old medicine bottle that`s about 3 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide and put about a dozen ( uncooked) dried pinto beans in it and added around 50 to 60 hinges some stuck together some not. I gave it a real good shake for about 1 minute.
Most of the stuck together hinges separated and the ones that didn`t were a lot easier to separate by hand.
Most of the stuck together hinges separated and the ones that didn`t were a lot easier to separate by hand.
Comments
Could you shake them with a goat?
I do not like green eggs and hinges.
And the tension of answer is not "will he?"
For when query doth peak then of the why,
I'm so weary and weak to again the reply,
Have you not heard of Dennison's chili?"
If you look closely, you can see hinge remnants.
Life’s too short, John. Chill out.
For the most part these forums are filled with a high content of useful philatelic information drawn from the wide spectrum of collectors and interests; their questions, their knowledge. Restricting that interchange to a one-dimensional academic exchange reminds me of teachers who merely recite facts without appealing to the "make-learning-more-fun" side of the hearer. Ted, for example, is gifted with an ability to do this in a well-balanced mode; conveying aspects of our hobby in an interesting, often nuanced perspective and easy to digest manner. Sometimes we benefit by "coming up for some air" through humor (or attempts at such) to remember our philatelic pursuits are made more enjoyable and human with occasional
suspension of pragmatic reality; what some might regard as the futility and absurdity of passionately amassing colored pieces
of paper. Such an observation may be ultimately true, yet under that kind of critical reflection, so is much of life. I find making occasional fun of such a more pleasant road than strictly "coloring within prescribed lines". What I probably should have condensed this to is: where there's no one single right way of collecting, perhaps there's no one single right way of discussing the activity.
Spoken like a true curmudgeon.
The more you eat, the more you...OK, I'll stop as well.
Those Dennison's Bean Hinges sound "yummy".
It a shame we can't get them in the UK.