From plastics engineering to poet??ÿ Did your parents immediately disown you and changes their wills to give everything to your siblings?
@holy-cow They were great about it. However, I quickly learned I would never make any money rhyming.
@dave-lindell Hahahaha! I thought they were a good price at 39¢ each!
Thanks for catching my mistake. 😉
@aliquot I like aluminum caps and use them on larger boundary surveys. However we do a lot of new subdivisions and I am already on my second order of 2,000 caps this year. The cheapest aluminum cap I can find from Berntsen is $2.26 for 500 or more, stainless steel caps from Bathey are $0.78 if you order 2k. Using aluminum caps would have cost the company an additional 8k this year (so far) and I don't think the boss or accountant would have been too happy about that.
Sometimes plastic caps last a long time. A surveyor retired and moved away 15 years before I started my business here and only used plastic caps for his last few years, so I had seen a few but they were always too sun rotted to read. One day I was looking for one of his. Lots of junk but no survey markers. As I was about to give up, I rolled over on old toilet and there it was, shiny as the day he set it 25 years ago.?ÿ
I use Bentsen Aluminum Caps. The markers and the drawings are all the customer sees. If I want to project the quality of my work, it has to look like quality.?ÿ
I've never used a plastic cap, but sometimes I've seen one that you could read, normally it's just parts of the cap that's left. There are some soft aluminum caps that degraded, some where the stencil is worn off, but by and large they last longer and are more permanent than the plastic version.
I followed a survey a couple of months ago. A newer plastic cap survey and 3/4 of them were still good. It was an early 2000's era survey.?ÿ
