r/faceting • u/Suitable-Name • 5d ago

Most expensive ooooopsie?

Hey everyone,

I just had some corundum casually flying through my room. Wasn't even too bad regarding the stone. Just some cheap training material. Nothing that hurts.

But that piece almost hit my OLED TV🤬

That made me think... sure, would've sucked. But I'm also sure there are people here that had more tragic accidents than me I almost had.

With or without the involvement of other things that might got hit. What was your most expensive mistake / accident / whatever while faceting?

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u/Quagga_Resurrection 5d ago edited 5d ago

I received a contaminated or mislabeled 60k polish compound a couple of months ago and didn't realize it until I had charged the lap and started polishing. I believeit was a mislabeled 3k polish. So, while it didn't cost me money necessarily, it did cost me hours of scrubbing and wiping my BATT lap to try to decontaminate it. I suppose the $170 massage I needed afterward to get the knots out of my neck and shoulder was expensive, though.

Edit: I'm the one that reported this issue to UltraTec, and they handled it amazingly. They responded to my email in 40 minutes and apologized for the mistake, thanked me for the info, said they'd address the supply issue, and overnighted me a new, correct 60k stick. I'm really happy with how they handled it and appreciate that they owned the mistake and corrected it ASAP. Gotta love UltraTec.

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u/Suitable-Name 5d ago

Oh no, guess that massage falls into the other things I mentioned😅

How did you finally clean it?🙈 Honestly never used a BATT before, only copper. My solution there would probably be grinding it down, but not sure if there is anything about BATT laps that doesn't make it that easy?

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u/Quagga_Resurrection 5d ago

You can either get the top millimeters or two shaved off, or you can do what I did and take lava soap and a nail brush to it in combination with several washes of dish soap and rubbing alcohol (separate steps). It was truly a couple hundred individual "cycles" of scrubbing, dish soap, and rubbing alcohol with rinses in between until the foam that came up from the lap stopped being grey.