Mazanec
spending too much on rocks
Member since March 2004
Posts: 355
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Post by Mazanec on Oct 3, 2004 5:18:59 GMT -5
Should you put in extra grit when you use plastic pellets, on the grounds that the pellets might tend to "protect" the rocks?
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 3, 2004 17:44:00 GMT -5
mazenec i don't use any extra grit with my pellets.
kim
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Post by krazydiamond on Oct 3, 2004 17:49:54 GMT -5
by the time you add pellets you shouldn't need to be grinding much. you need to be protecting, cushioning the rocks and letting the prepolish and polish work. i use (with a 3 lb tumbler) 4 tbs of coarse (60/90) and 4 tbs of meduim grit (220), then i use 6 tbs of the prepolish and 6 tbs polish, if i go the distance with the intermediate step (SISA) i use 5-6 tbs of that too.....
KD
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MoonStone
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since August 2004
Posts: 202
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Post by MoonStone on Oct 4, 2004 0:18:14 GMT -5
Hello Mazanec! Somewhere in here I read that if you looked at the pellets with a microscope you could actually see the grit embedded to the pellets. If this is really the case then it will not be necessary to add any more grit. I just learned by the posts and by my own experience that the pellets are only necessary for the last stages and not the coarse one, it really slows down the first stage for a very very long long long time. ;D
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Mazanec
spending too much on rocks
Member since March 2004
Posts: 355
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Post by Mazanec on Oct 4, 2004 11:30:21 GMT -5
Maybe that is why the rocks I am tumbling are so slow...
Closing in on Seniorhood...
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