Greetings [fwfranklen] Mike for tumbling you don't need French Super Cerium Oxide, the basic Cerium Oxide is good enough for example
Amazon: Cerium Oxide from $21.90 per 454g (1lb).
Polishes from 1.5 microns - 0.25 microns.
Aluminum Oxide (White color)
Rock shed's AO polish 1.5 microns (equivalent to 17,500 grit).
Lortone AO polish 1.0 microns (equivalent to 25,000 grit).
Union Carbide Lindi C 1.0 microns (equivalent to 25,000 grit).
Union Carbide Lindi B 0.5 microns (equivalent to 50,000 grit).
Union Carbide Lindi A 0.3 microns (equivalent to 90,000 grit).
X3 AO 0.3 microns (equivalent to 90,000 grit).
Rapid Polish #61 AO is 0.25 micron (equivalent to 100,000 grit).
Cerium Oxide (Tan or Pink color) 1.5 microns (equivalent to 17,500 grit).
French Super Cerium Oxide (White color) 0.5 microns (equivalent to 50,000 grit).
Chromium Oxide (Green color) 1.5 microns (equivalent to 17,500 grit) stains green.
Zam (Aluminum Oxide & Chromium Oxide mix) 0.5 microns (equivalent to 50,000 grit) stains green.
Tin Oxide (Off-white color) 1.0 microns (equivalent to 25,000 grit).
Super Tin Oxide 0.5 microns (equivalent to 50,000 grit).
Zinc Oxide (White color) 1.0 microns (equivalent to 25,000 grit).
Borax Ph Eur 1.0 microns (equivalent to 25,000 grit) see Sticky #5 for more info.
Diamond 0.5 microns (equivalent to 50,000 grit) & 0.25 micron (equivalent to 100,000 grit).
Please check out my Sticky's below.
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I currently have a 3lb Beach (UK), Lortone QT 12/66 (USA) rotaries & 2x Viking Vibrasonic
(Diamond Pacific) (USA) virbrating tumblers, with Silicon Carbide grit F80, F220, F600, F1200,
with Tin Oxide (1.0 micron) & Aluminum Oxide (1.0 micron & 0.3 micron) polishes.
I hail from (The Barony of Seabegs)
Bonnybridge,
Stirlingshire,
U.K, where
aliens (15mb)
sometimes come for a visit & about 4 miles west from that
monstrosity & 7 miles west of this new
monstrosity!
Sticky's: their contents are resource information 1#:
Vendors worldwide (2mb), 2#:
How to use the forum,
3#:
How to identify rocks & minerals, 4#:
Save money on expensive grits & polishes,
5#:
Aussie Lapidary Forum: Rock Tumbling Guide!