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I have to vent somewhere, right?

Well... The pink Frigidaire kitchen is coming along nicely. Just buffed the floor today. So I thought I'd put Mabel in there ( the pink 57 Imperial range) to see how she is going to look in her new home. Well Mr f**king fix it decides to work on the feet on the bottom. He sets her on her side on the dolly... and she f**cking slid off. And yes the glass is now cracked across the panel, right through the clock and everything. I know he didn't do it on purpose but, I still want to puke.
I almost cried!

So if anyone happens to see a glass for her please let me know.

Devastated
 
You might be able to have a new piece cut, and have the appliques (or whatever they are called) duplicated. I had that done with a vintage advertising sign that I was quite fond of, but was badly disintegrating. I had to go to a sign shop, and it costs a pretty penny, but it's worth it if you are going to keep it.
 
Jeeez US... I would be spitting nails I'd be so mad and my gut wrenching. Dunno what to say cause that is the sort of thing you know is an accident but unless and until you get it fixed properly it's gonna nag and eat at you every time you look at it. Been there...
 
Bethann

Toggles blamed me and I blamed him. It was not a fun moment when the washer landed on my 'very masculine' Crocs.

No words were said, but, you could cut the air with a PANK knife.

So sorry to hear about your mishap.
 
Oh BA, you and Mr. Fix-it just must come to visit. I call Gary's house the pink palace. It's F#$%^ing PANK EVERYWHERE!

From Pepto-bismol colored walls to knives to...........

(SHAKES HEAD and ROLLS EYES!)

If I end up butterflied and "fillet-ed" in two with a pink knife in me, you can be reasonably sure it was not the butler in the library (with a candlestik)......*LOL*
 
Bethann, I'm so sorry seems so inadequate. Ugh. Hope some of the suggestions here for repair turn out to be a perfect solution. Bob
 
Speaking of Ooopsies... I bought a new tool chest for work last night. $650, and it's in two parts. Well, as we were loading the boxes onto my truck at Costco, I lost my grip and the upper chest box hit the ground from a couple feet up. I didn't think much of it, as I figured it would have lots of styrofoam. Wrong. After I got the two pieces to my workplace, unboxed, wheels attached, and placed the upper chest on the lower roll-around unit, I noticed the crimped back corner of the upper chest. Arggh. I 'm sure Costco would take it back (since it happened in their lot with their help), but it would be a huge hassle to load the now-unpacked boxes onto the truck and take it back there.

So I just hit the crimped area with a deadblow hammer, flattening it out, and realized the wrinkled area is mostly covered by a brace one adds to secure the upper to the lower. Probably only I will notice it, and I'm sure I'll forget it's there in a few years :-).
 
Oh no!

Well, the hunt is on then. You'll find another and for now, it makes a good story.

I'm sure every collector could tell horror stories similar to this, I know I can. I get palpitations every time I have to open a glass washer or dryer panel - my biggest fear is the pushbutton Maytags. There is a Speed Queen panel on the wall in the garage that I tried to clean some sticky gunk off of with a tiny bit of a chemical that melted the finish instantly. It was right before I was taking the machine to Robert for the convention at his house and I had to take all of the switches and controls and switch to another panel I thankfully had on hand. I have the ruined panel hanging on the garage wall as a reminder to slow down and be careful ;-)
 
Bethann! How's the enamel?

Don't worry about the glass, another'll turn up. It's the sheetmetal that can really screw up your day. Sorry to hear about your luck- been there, done that : (
 
Here's one that happened to me a number of years ago.
My mother had these two gigantic porcelain painted antique vases about 2.5 feet each and each of them mounted on porcelain stands. They were made in England in the early 1800's and had been moms grandmothers etc. Mom brought them over with her when she came to Canada in the 40's but they were never taken out of the box and just put away. Well when we got our first house she gave them to me since I was the only one in the family who liked antiques. My partner had built some shelves in the basement and we stored that box on the shelves.. Well one day to my horror I went downstairs and the shelves had collapsed and the two vases were irrepairably damaged. I told mom about it she told me never to tell my father, he would have a fit only that he had had to drag that carton from house to house to house as they moved onward and upward from the 40's and the bloody vases never saw the light of day anyways LOL
 
I know the horror of which everyone speaks. We were moving an 1840's-era cast iron stove out of my basement to our "museum" at our store. As we were going up the stairs the most ornate piece of the stove fell off at the top step and proceeded to hit every step on it's way down. It seemed to shatter more with each hit. It looked like it was breaking & falling in slow motion just to piss me off more. We had another almost mint late 1800's stove that we took into the museum. When we slid it back into place, the cast iron foot broke right off. Breaking sh!t sucks, esp. irreplaceable sh!t.
 
I'm just surprised you don't have a second around for parts.... :D

I can't remember if this is a clear piece of a glass, or frosted with some special lettering, etc. Breaking items like this is always the worst - but the search will continue.

Ben
 

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