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Post by Toad on Apr 30, 2006 17:08:21 GMT -5
I just put the last of my 60/90 into the Lortone yesterday - but I have 50# coming from Miles supply tomorrow. What a great deal.
$1.19 per pound including shipping. Shouldn't have to worry about that again for the rest of the year.
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Post by Cher on Apr 30, 2006 18:39:29 GMT -5
That's where I'll probably order my next load from but I still have quite a bit for now. Gotta love those prices though eh?
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Post by joe on Apr 30, 2006 21:42:08 GMT -5
I have #50 of that in my basement. I think you'll like it.
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Duckbean
fully equipped rock polisher
Looking for rocks in all the wrong places
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Post by Duckbean on May 1, 2006 13:24:24 GMT -5
Got 50 lb. last year when they sent it in the bag like concrete comes in then sealed in a box. Going to have to order some before long and I'm glad they use plastic buckets now. Think the price went up a little to cover them though. But will be easier to use. I had grit in every thing I could find that had a lid!
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Post by Toad on May 1, 2006 20:18:39 GMT -5
They're are not using plastic buckets yet. Mine came in a bag. Shoot.
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wades
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by wades on May 2, 2006 9:36:58 GMT -5
I bought a 50# bucket from Graves a while back. It was $65 but only because I could pick it up locally.
When I got to the shop they were going to charge me $105! That's the price they have listed in their catalog, but when I pointed out that the web site says $65 they sold it to me for that.
If Miles is shipping it for $60 I'll know where to go next time...
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jrtrio
has rocks in the head
With10 tumblers tumbling the sound is so delicious!Send me more of those little red fellas, please?
Member since February 2006
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Post by jrtrio on May 2, 2006 9:48:11 GMT -5
Don't forget to recycle you own grit now. If you are going to buy 50# of grit you might want to use it again some day. Do what a lot of us are doing and that is when you are done with a load and are going to get rid of the slurry, pour it into a 5 gallon bucket along with the water you use to clean out the barrel. After a while the bucket fills up and then you siphon off most of the water into a smaller bucket and dispose of that somewhere other than your sink! And when you have enough grit on the bottom of your 5 gallon bucket then siphon off as much water you can, slowly gently pour off the rest of the water that you can before grit starts leaving the bucket and then set it outside to let the rest of the moisture evaporate. Stir up the mess every other day until you can scoop out a pound or so that you can set on wax paper to dry it out completely. And there you have it your own First stage grit. We won't give it a number because it should contain everything from 47 to 400 to 600 grit! Just know that you can use it for your first stage, and some people are trying a 2 step version of tumbling. That's where they let the first stage grit tumble the load for a few weeks until they are ready to polish. It's crazy you say, well yes I say that too, but I'm trying it in one of my own tumblers and I must say that it's working better than I expected. But, take this advice or don't take it. But either way you have to do something with 50# of grit and I'd like to see it re-used than to be dumped out somewhere where all it's going to do is turn into a hard brick doing nothing for no one.
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