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Where do I find these dime sized rubies for 20 bucks?
Right? A dime is a touch over 18mm, and prices I’ve been able to nail down on a couple sites for artificial rubies of that size, while way less than terrestrial rubies, cannot be considered ”cheap” - we’re still talking thousands of dollars.
Maybe they mean ruby infused grinding wheels?
https://www.travers.com/product/radiac-ruby-surface-grinding-wheels-71150
Or maybe they were exaggerating a little bit and thinking about ruby bearings.
https://www.renishaw.com/shop/Product.aspx?Product=A-5000-3611
A million f[beep]ing diamonds!
This post is so old the price has gone up since.
Yeah, if anybody finds these cheap rubies do let me know, I'd love to buy them
I've seen youtubers that bought reject sapphire from the f-35 cockpits that had some minor flaw in some place that disqualified it.
I think you can buy reject batches of artificial ruby for indilustrial applications too.
Where do you buy that from?
https://cascadejewels.com/
I searched lab grown rubies and these guys seem to be pricing near to that cost. They seem legit from a cursory search but i haven't looked that deep.
That's awesome, thank you!