Lost my wedding band today somewhere in the garage or under the hood of the MS3. I never heard it fall or any metal sound. I work with nitrile gloves on almost exclusively and went back and looked in all the used ones, and in my cloth ones also, nothing. Been through my nut/bolt bins I was digging through earlier, they also turned up nothing.
Anyone got any suggestions for a cool cheap replacement?
Tungsten carbide. Cheap, shiny, very very hard to scratch.
nderwater wrote: Tungsten carbide. Cheap, shiny, very very hard to scratch.
My first one was that. I beat the E36 M3 out of it and it looked as good new, as it did the day i took it off for the last time.
And when you order the replacement, order two. The carbide one I wear every day was $30 new on eBay and is the same make and model as the one my wife spent $300 on, minus the engraving she had done.
Like finding Zenni optical has changed prescription sunglasses forever from something to stress over to something you don't have to worry about, having a spare, inexpensive ring means one less thing for stress.
You want one as close to the original as possible. As soon as you pay for it, the lost will be found.
the only issue I have with the carbide rings.. how do you get them off if you break a finger or worse.. they are nearly impossible to cut off
Clamp down with a pair of vice grips and they shatter like porcelain. Similarly, they won't dent or bend either, just break.
I lost mine somewhere inside my FD. Whoever buys my car will get a bonus if they ever find it.
mad_machine wrote: the only issue I have with the carbide rings.. how do you get them off if you break a finger or worse.. they are nearly impossible to cut off
Tungsten is brittle, but that's a legit worry for titanium rings -- they are very hard to cut off in the event of an emergency.
I ordered a carbon fiber ring off Etsy. I honestly chose it because I thought it would break almost immediately and I wouldn't have to replace it. After a little more than a year of swinging hammers and turning wrenches 12 or more hours a day it looks the same as it did the day I put it on.
As an added bonus it weighs a mere .5 grams and is hardly noticeable.
I cut my own on a drill press from a piece of aluminum plate...I spent all the money on her ring.
It could be worse, I lost my original wedding ring 3 days after the wedding while scuba diving. I could see the ring, but it was about 18" from the opening of a notch of a reef and a moray eel lived within said notch. Needless to say I replaced it with the exact ring a half size smaller immediately upon our return to the states.
Why on earth are you wearing a ring, or any jewelry, when working on a car? 
Tattoo. Won't fall off.
Tungsten, as mentioned, clamp until it breaks. Ti, IIRC, cut it twice at 180.
Wife has tungsten with a mother of pearl inlay. I have Ti. Both ran $50 each at Walmart, although I can replace mine for $10 online. The weight difference is crazy, although mine is crazy scratched up after 5 years.
914Driver wrote: Tattoo. Won't fall off.
Cheese grater.
914Driver wrote: Tattoo. Won't fall off.
Worst idea ever.
Why not get each others' named tatted on your necks?
Wife bought me a set of three silicon rings in black, grey and white to wear when I'm working on the car or at the track. So comfortable that I end up wearing them more often than my regular band.
Kinda like this.
-Rob
If you get tungsten or cobalt, you can open beer bottles with your ring.
I left mine in the shower at Summit Point somewhere around 2003. I still don't have a replacement.
nderwater wrote:mad_machine wrote: the only issue I have with the carbide rings.. how do you get them off if you break a finger or worse.. they are nearly impossible to cut offTungsten is brittle, but that's a legit worry for titanium rings -- they are very hard to cut off in the event of an emergency.
I actually asked an EMT about this at our last company first aid training. He said they don't have a problem with them - they have a string wrap technique that he said has never failed them.
I lost mine about 2 years ago. Having been married for 18+ years neither my wife nor I were in a huge rush to get me another one. Lately I've been looking at the Qalo silicone rings. As much car repair, house repair, and outdoorsy stuff as I do they make sense. Pretty sure I can find a cheaper knockoff, but at $25....eh.
RealMiniParker wrote: Why on earth are you wearing a ring, or any jewelry, when working on a car?
Very much THIS. The moment I head out to the garage or poke my head under the hood for anything more than checking the oil or tire pressure, my ring comes off and gets clipped onto a special holder (http://www.ringsafe.com) on my keychain for safekeeping. The same is also true (though I haven't had the chance to do so in a while) when I would do anything Kendo-related. My ring is a custom-cut Damascus steel ring so would likely NOT be a fun time to get off if anything went wrong and my finger would quite certainly give before it would.
SWMBO used to be a bit skeptical of me for doing this until last year when we happened to be watching Jimmy Fallon talking about almost losing his finger due to his ring getting caught when he fell- she's not had any objections to my taking it off when working on things since then. I offered to pick up one of the silicone rings to wear when I wasn't wearing my normal ring, but she didn't see any point in that since 95% of the time I'm not around any other people when working on things.
I saw a degloving injury once where a guy jumped from a C-130 and left the skin of his ring finger and wedding band in the doorway while he parachuted to the ground. He was a very sad panda as you can imagine.
Met a woman a few years ago who did the same thing playing with her kids on a playground slide.
I can't get my wedding band off my finger anymore. Makes me nervous.
But after a decade, the titanium is still going strong.
Mine is cobalt. I've thought about those silicon ones before but the idea didn't go over well with SWMBO.
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