liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 30/1/08 at 11:24 PM |
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Please help!!
I have just spilled tea onto a relatively expensive book my new boss loaned me!
it doesn't seem to have soaked down into any of the pages just splashed onto the top.
Anyone got any ideas on how to get it off?
I'd buy another book for him in a heartbeat but this one has 10 years of personal notes in the margins. What should i do?
[Edited on 30/1/08 by liam.mccaffrey]
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Hellfire
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| posted on 30/1/08 at 11:27 PM |
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Tea is used to stain things basically you will have very little luck trying to remove the stain....
Tell him the truth and offer to buy him a new book.... what's the worst he could do besides fataly maming and torturing you. ROFL
Steve
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caber
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| posted on 30/1/08 at 11:39 PM |
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depends a lot on the paper quality. If it is good then an artists paintbrush with bleach may shift the stain, if it is cheap paper then you will be
left with a whiter area. best just to 'fess up and bear the consequences
Caber
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twybrow
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| posted on 30/1/08 at 11:43 PM |
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Spill some more things on different pages, and tell him its a scratch 'n' sniff!?
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StevenB
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 12:58 AM |
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Gotta ask..what book?
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RK
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 01:32 AM |
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Do you really like your new job?
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 01:45 AM |
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its a good quality paper, i might try some bleach trials on some other tea stained paper.
my boss is more a friend/mentor than anything else, if he were an asshole i wouldn't feel half as bad as i do.
fyi the book is
"Above ground storage tanks" by Philip E Myers. Its to do with my job, im a project manager for new storage tank builds.
thanks for the serious suggestions guys, also thanks for the not so serious ones too, they cheered me up
[Edited on 31/1/08 by liam.mccaffrey]
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Guinness
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 07:28 AM |
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I wouldn't worry too much Liam. At least it shows you were reading it!
Mike
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welderman
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 07:47 AM |
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Tell your boss what happened, they likie people who are honest. Good luck, tea stains eh, now if it were a girly mag the pages would be stuck
together,. SORRY.
Thank's, Joe
I don't stalk people
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/23/viewthread.php?tid=172301
Back on with the Fisher Fury R1
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tomblyth
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 07:48 AM |
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google for book restorer and ask them to quote! don't try it yourself ! (according to sod's law the more important it is the more your
likely to fcuk it up!)
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 08:04 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
I wouldn't worry too much Liam. At least it shows you were reading it!
Mike
Or using it as a coaster 
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 08:56 AM |
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bleach sounds like it would more likely damage the print, and it would smell.
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Puk
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 08:59 AM |
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Haven't those years in school taught us anything?
The dog ate it
My baby sister got sick on it
I left it on the bus
My granny used it to bear down on when we gave her an emergency trachiochtomy with a bic biro. (You should probably check the spelling of this one if
you use it)
Before you judge a guy, walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you judge him, you're a mile a way and you've nicked his shoes.
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02GF74
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 09:17 AM |
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razor blade and cut the page(s) out.
the chances of him ever having to read those exact pages has to be quite small surely?
or when you give it back mention that those pages are missing.
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 09:21 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
when you give it back mention that those pages are missing.
It was like that when i got it sir
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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Puk
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 09:38 AM |
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skive off for his classes - er meetings
Before you judge a guy, walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you judge him, you're a mile a way and you've nicked his shoes.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 10:22 AM |
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This tip works a lot better if someone else borrowed the book before you and your boss hasnt read it since.
What you do is photocopy the page with the stain on it and play with the settings until you cant see it on the copy (sometimes you have to copy the
copy).
You then tear that page out of the book oh so carefully.
Give the book back - commenting how there was a page missing, but then give him the copy page and say you managed to find it in a library.
The only flaw in the plan is if that particular page has notes in it which are on the copy (spooky how the library copy had the same hand written
notes!!). post it notes can be used to cover bits of text as they sometimes dont show up on B&W copies.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 10:54 AM |
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Don't tell lies: don't try to fix, don't try to wriggle out - own up and apologise, offer to buy new one.
Odds are he won't care that much, odds are he will appreciate your honesty.
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r1_pete
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 12:34 PM |
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I'd go with fessing up.
Or you could find your next project is underground sewage tanks......
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 01:10 PM |
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probably gonna fess up, you're right i could try to fix it and really screw it up. I would look like a right tit then
btw
there are no stains on any pages at all but discolouration on the top spine of the book
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iank
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 01:24 PM |
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Doesn't sound like it will be too bad then, especially if you offer to get a new one.
If going down the fiction route then you could try the '93 year old half blind granny spilt her tea while it was on the coffee table'
Then again your boss could be reading this thread
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 31/1/08 at 04:45 PM |
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The deportation papers are in the post!!!!!!!
Look under paper restoration.
Dad used to have these people work
in the museum along side him sorting
that very problem out.
England is a world center for this trade.
Not cheap and twice the price in dollars
[Edited on 31-1-08 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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