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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 8:26:06 GMT -5
I got tired of having to either cut or break a small piece off of even medium sized rocks to get them under 500 grams for my small scale so I bought an 86 pound scale then rigged up a basket so I could just stick one stone in, get the weight, pull it out and stick in another. I can run through a bucket of wet weights pretty quick now. I just drop them on a towel and they are dry by the time I get back to needing to write on them. The water bucket is the same one that I put up on a shelf for a drip water supply. The wood is from an expandable stair gate (baby gate) that I took apart and the aluminum wire is from a roll of ground wire that my son found behind a house that he rented. Edited to say that I forgot the two to three dollar cost of a small piece of plywood. Scale: $34.? Materials: $0.00 For anyone interested it is dry weight minus wet weight (weight of stone suspended in water), dry weight divided by the difference. And for the argumentative people out there "yes I know there are different and maybe easier ways to do it but this is my way and it works well for me". If you want to post your way it is free to start another thread. Jim
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 9:10:15 GMT -5
I doubt we'll see a simpler way. Contraption built, it's weigh dry, weigh wet and write down findings and do the math. How does it get easier than this?
pure bad@ssery!
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 19, 2014 9:52:01 GMT -5
simple and effective. cant ask for more then that. thanks for sharing that.
Chuck
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 19, 2014 15:41:28 GMT -5
rockhound ingenuity
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 18:34:50 GMT -5
The wood you used looks nice. Therefore I am against putting the metal to wood hangers like that. No reason to not hook the hangers off the all thread.
oopsie- sorry for the criticism! lol
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 19:48:40 GMT -5
The wood you used looks nice. Therefore I am against putting the metal to wood hangers like that. No reason to not hook the hangers off the all thread. oopsie- sorry for the criticism! lol Ya know, you may be right. That way they would not have a tendency to slide toward the middle. See, I am also not perfect. DAMN Jim
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Post by snowmom on Aug 20, 2014 7:17:48 GMT -5
brilliant!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 9:28:20 GMT -5
My solution was purely cosmetic. It seems there is a practical reason too. Once again, youze is smarter than me.
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Post by Thunder69 on Aug 20, 2014 19:41:16 GMT -5
Might could use a cable hook/holder(The kind to attach cable tv to the side of the house when you run it to keep it from flapping)....Sweet idea Jim...JOhn
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Post by garock on Aug 21, 2014 13:18:23 GMT -5
I really have a case of "dah". Been "ciphering" as to what SG meant for a good day now. Read the post again and something knocked me out of my chair ! Specific Gravity ! Yeah I got it ! I reckon my some timers was really kicked in
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 15:54:01 GMT -5
I really have a case of "dah". Been "ciphering" as to what SG meant for a good day now. Read the post again and something knocked me out of my chair ! Specific Gravity ! Yeah I got it ! I reckon my some timers was really kicked in hahaha I have the same problem and I still just put the initials. Better next time. I had one a couple of days ago. TMI finally dawned on me, too much information. Jim
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 13:36:35 GMT -5
IDK? YMMV!
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Post by navyvet8192 on Aug 26, 2014 7:00:51 GMT -5
Thank You! I'm going to "borrow" your idea with an old postal scale I have.
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Post by dshalldms on Sept 23, 2014 7:50:47 GMT -5
Commercially they use a flotation tank with the medium adjusted so that solid nodules sink and the hollow geodes float.
Derek
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Post by wampidytoo on Sept 19, 2017 23:00:56 GMT -5
Any thread I posted before "too" was added to my handle can not be changed or upgraded so the only options I have are adding onto the end like I did here or just start over and make a new thread. Not sure what is possible as far as linking the old to the new but so far nothing will work from old me to new me. A word from the now wise is "if someone makes a very derogatory comment about Native Americans or anyone for that matter don't kill your member status because if you decide to come back it is a pain in the butt because you loose everything (5016 posts) and you can not edit any past life threads. If anyone comes across an old thread of mine where the photos are gone please let me know. I should be able to replace most of them. I got tired of having to either cut or break a small piece off of even medium sized rocks to get them under 500 grams for my small scale so I bought an 86 pound scale then rigged up a basket so I could just stick one stone in, get the weight, pull it out and stick in another. I can run through a bucket of wet weights pretty quick now. I just drop them on a towel and they are dry by the time I get back to needing to write on them. The water bucket is the same one that I put up on a shelf for a drip water supply. The wood is from an expandable stair gate (baby gate) that I took apart and the aluminum wire is from a roll of ground wire that my son found behind a house that he rented. Edited to say that I forgot the two to three dollar cost of a small piece of plywood. Scale: $34.? Materials: $0.00 For anyone interested it is dry weight minus wet weight (weight of stone suspended in water), dry weight divided by the difference. Jim
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