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Post by pghram on Sept 15, 2014 9:59:17 GMT -5
I'm a little late to the party. When we lived in VA I always had to burnish after polish, if not, the shine was never up to standard. Here in GA I only burnish between stages to clean everything really well, no need at all to burnish after polish. Water in VA was really hard, better water, at least for tumbling, here in GA.
Rich
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Post by Jugglerguy on Sept 15, 2014 13:03:51 GMT -5
So this is more evidence that burnishing might not be actual burnishing at all, but rather a good cleaning. This might explain why some of us don't see any difference before and after burnishing and others see a big improvement.
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Sept 15, 2014 18:45:08 GMT -5
OK, here is a views I never had before.
I had all of this summers rock in my vibe on the final stage. It had gone for a few days and I took a few out to check them. They looked like crap. I found that they were covered in a horrible haze which did not wipe off. It did not matter how hard I wiped.
I had used the polish from one of those garbage tumblers that kill kids' interest in tumbling and it was the problem.
I took the rock out of the tumbler and washed it out. Then I cleaned the tumbles up the best I could and decided to make sure the crap and crudation was out of the bowl so I put the rock back in and added my special filler gravel in until the tumbler was so full it almost wanted to stop. It kept going and after an hour or so I took it down again and the rock looked pretty good in comparison. I still have to run 99% of it back through the process, but at least it came clean of the shi, I mean crap all over it.
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