I collected baseball cards when I was younger. This was back when baseball cards were still popular, and you could even buy cards in the drug store.
I was never really a huge baseball fan, but the cards were something that all the other boys were doing, so I was too.
Even entire yearly sets fetched a nice price sometimes.
And then there were the collectors prized possessions. I’ll probably never forget that the Honus Wagner card was the most valuable baseball card due to its rarity.
We certainly didn’t find Honus Wagner in our packs.
Also, I remember sending off to have players actually autograph the cards. The tactic was you would send them a self-addressed stamped envelope with the card and a note.
The note would politely ask the player to sign the card and then return it in the handy envelope.
You had to be careful, though, because the rate of ignorance from the pro players was high. You might not ever see your card again!
So, you had to play this game of Catch-22 where you sent in only semi-valuable cards to get autographed, with the hope that the player was having a good day and followed your easy instructions.
Anyway, another neat thing about baseball cards was you would go to the store, and spend your allowance on 1 or 2 packs.
Then you would rip open the packs.
In the pack were a small amount of cards, of course. Most of my cards were always the crappy “commons.” These were the dregs or average players that make up most of a team.
Once in a while, you’d find a true star.
But also there in the pack was an extra treat.
It was that pink stick of bubble gum.
Now, we all knew that this was not a high quality piece of gum.
The gum was typically dried out, had a strange white powdery residue on it and smelled like the cardboard baseball cards it had been living with for months.
However, that gum still tasted pretty good, and the experience of that kept you coming back for more.
Anyway, we’re now packaging our frac sand testing services, and it’s similar to an old school pack of baseball cards.
You get several frac sand tests in one delightful package:
– Washing and wet sieve analysis
– Sieve analysis
– Sphericity and roundness test on the predominant sized sand
– Turbidity testing
– Acid solubility testing
– Bulk density testing
– Crush resistance test to find out the sand’s K value
Sometimes you’ll find your sand to just be “common” and not be marketable.
Once in a while, you find some “superstar” frac sand, however. And it makes the investment totally worthwhile. Might even make you rich.
And every package has that “sweet and tasty” bubblegum treat, in the form a nice delicious deal.
How much?
Total package, soup to nuts is $1,950. You’ll pay a lot more if you “piecemeal” the tests together.
We think it’s a home run of a deal.
Keep in mind though that this season won’t last forever, and the package price is bound to go up.
Let’s play ball.
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