boutoo
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Post by boutoo on Aug 19, 2015 9:45:04 GMT -5
Here are my Turkish rocks The non quartz ones
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 13:46:20 GMT -5
Greetings [boutoo] Borax, grit and polish see Sticky #5, Borax / Grit / Polish / slurry filter your rocks pics looks like Leaverites to me, sorry! In reply #5 you can see my tumblers: Rotary tumbler and posting pics instead of weblinks see Sticky #2. 110V 60Hz motors require a continuous duty step-down transformer, to run on 240V 50hz power supply, my Lortone QT12/66 tumbler has a 220V 50Hz motor with a Euro-plug, that requires a shaving adaptor. In Member Photographs you can see my three local (45 miles) lapidary clubs, Leith Lapidary Club, West of Scotland Mineral and Lapidary Society and Scottish Minerals and Lapidary Club. What grits and polish and amounts do you currently have? Please check out my Sticky's below. -- Please click images to open larger images in a new Tab, same with everything that is Underlined! 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!
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Post by Shelbeeray on Aug 19, 2015 23:31:17 GMT -5
Ya know, I've never thought about what to do with the Aleut in a city situation! We have a big yard and I dump in a social area that our pets can't get to. Hmmmm...can you let it dry in a disposable container, like a milk carton, then put in the garbage?
You can use other soaps instead of borax. Some folks use plain laundry detergent or even slices off of laundry bar soaps.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2015 4:52:07 GMT -5
Greetings [boutoo] rough rock, I get most of my rough rock from Mineral Craft North in North Yorkshire, I buy wholesale at least 10kg (22lb) per rock and pay pay half listed price per kg you need to tell them that you want crushed rock between 15mm - 25mm (0.6" - 1"). The "Thumlers Tumblers" branded grit pack is for metal having Pumice as the polish, Thumlers Tumblers does not exist, Tru-square are under licence to manufacture machines and up-kept "Thumlers Tumblers" product lines, just like "Evans Lapidary Machines" does not exist and "Kimber-Allen Ltd" is under licence to manufacture "Evans Lapidary Tumblers"; Evans junior 2lb, CR1 3lb and Cr2 6lb rotary tumblers, spares, repairs, grits and polishes in the UK. Anything you buy from outside the Countries in the EU and EEAAs a importer it is up to you to know that you may be charged 20% VAT for trade goods from £15 up to £269 & gifts valued over £45, goods valued between £270 & £630 are charged 2.5% Import duty plus 20% VAT on top, It is not just the goods value itself, but goods plus postage. Customs treat all goods as new & subject to VAT unless the sender specifies key words like "Used" or "Under warranty replacement" before the goods, a "Used rock tumbler" may be in its orginal box, but would not be wrapped in cellaphane, similarly "Under warranty replacement rock tumbler" should not have a sales invoice, but an under warranty cover note. Also some Ebay sellers inflate the customs value to the price they bought the goods instead of the price they sold the goods for. Parcel Farce send you a ransome demand for vat plus their £8 or £13.50 fee, if you don't have a courier like UPS, otherwise your courier will send you a ransome demand instead. Packages under 2kg (4.4lb) mostly get through without custom inspection, 99% of packages over 2kg+ (4.4+lb) are inspected if the country of origin is the USA, packages from China mostly get through without custom inspection regardless of their weight. Please check out my Sticky's below. -- Please click images to open larger images in a new Tab, same with everything that is Underlined! 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!
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Post by mol on Aug 20, 2015 5:16:01 GMT -5
Ummmmm Londoner here, so yes grit & water LOL! Yes I d/l'd the tut & I have about half the agate looking rocks I got tumbling now (3/4 full) & yes I made sure the water covered the rocks & the sound is very much like my dishwasher & washing machine going at the same time or that sound rocky streams make when the flow is fast - noisy, but not as loud as I thought it might be thankfully. I don't have a garage, so mine in the kitchen. I managed to sleep last night & nobody I spoke to on the phone today noticed From the pics below, it seems only the tigers eyes are beginning to look like they should (yes, I did just run to check mid post & take pics for you!) Noted that polishing definitely needs its' own barrel. I'm finding the plastic one difficult to open & shut, so there goes next months budget :3 I also found this on eBay for 'later'. If I'm going to break anything, I want it to be on the small one ha ha I know a little bit about rocks, but not much so am willing to learn Pics now TumblerSlurrySamples
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Post by mol on Aug 20, 2015 5:56:21 GMT -5
Hi boutoo. I've found that if you take your barrel off the tumbler and soak it in hot water for 20 seconds, the lid will come off much easier. The lid heats up quicker than the barrel and becomes a lot softer so it comes off with a lot less pressure. Soak the lid again before you put it back on. If you put the lid back on the when it's warm it cools down on the barrel and seals it's self a lot better :-)
I bought a Lortone tumbler from eBay in the US recently and it has a European 220 volt motor, and it comes with a European 2 pin plug so you just need a travel adapter. I bought a model 33b but they don't seem to have any at the moment. This item number is another Lortone model 201405016928. The seller is called bfdgems. You can also get borax from UK sellers on eBay, search for 20 mule team borax.
I hope this helps
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Post by iant on Aug 20, 2015 8:31:04 GMT -5
Hi Boutoo and welcome! Regards a reliable rubber barrelled tumber, I would recommend a Lortone tumbler from a UK source. I have one which I managed to get as old stock off e-bay. You might get one here: www.palmermetals.co.uk/shop/lortone-3a-single-barrel-tumbler.htmlPrice is not cheap but quality is good! I picked up a barrel of borax from e-bay. Happy to send you some for free if you want? Kind regards Ian
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Post by boutoo on Aug 20, 2015 12:51:08 GMT -5
Hi everyone Leaverites? Not come across those before. Will read up on grits once I have the basics clear, thanks 2 litre milk cartons could work certainly, thanks!! I can wrap them up in lots of newspaper & put them in the rubbish once they're full I'm not even sure we can get bar soap for laundry any more lol! I have plenty of powdered laundry soap, but think I'll try out the Aldi one for now & see how I get on with it I've bought from the US & China before & haven't had any issues so far & I do check with sellers to make sure any prices include import duties I'll try out MCN, although I found their site layout somewhat confusing. I'll visit a few times to get familiar The whole x is selling y's products under license thing makes my head explode so I try to avoid it where possible. I will take the advice of your good selves as to which ones are good & safe to use here I do soak my lid. It has more to do with my arms being very stiff & weak due to my injuries...it's me, not the barrel in other words I had a quick look & found a nice used one, but it's on auction & that ends before I get paid...tis np, I'm sure another will come up soon I've noted that Lortone are better than Thumlers for UK use Are Palmers the ones who'll order other Lortone products if asked nicely? I can't remember as I've taken in a lot of info over the past few days Found some borax on eBay! Thanks for that...didn't think to look there ha ha thanks for the lovely offer Ian I couldn't resist peeking yesterday & discovered that some of the stones I thought were agates weren't. I'd been out for a little local hunt (the tide was in & there's a large public garden nearby) & found some interesting (to me) bits. So I had a shuffle around & added 2/3rds of a tbsp of rough grit - the grit is what came with the tumbler & has no brand label on it, so I assume it's UKGE's own brand This is what is still in the tumbler from the original load These are the pieces I removed. These are the new pieces I added to the Tumbler to make up the weight. I still have the same noise, so believe all to be well in Tumbler world This is one of the Turkish pieces, is it marble? This looks & feels very similar to flint, but can't be as it's brown...is it any good for tumbling & anybody know what it is please? I couldn't get the links to work as pics, so I've gone back to links instead. Sorry for any inconvenience
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Post by Shelbeeray on Aug 20, 2015 17:20:42 GMT -5
Leaverite is a rockhound term for "leave 'er right there"...as in don't pick up. :-} I've had some surprises from random rocks I pick up at the river. Before long you will know which shine up and which don't.
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Post by Shelbeeray on Aug 20, 2015 17:21:31 GMT -5
for some reason I can't get the image links to work in your last post...
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Post by boutoo on Aug 20, 2015 17:39:24 GMT -5
I don't know what happened with the code, but it didn't like my pics. Have edited Better to practice on 'Leaverites' instead of spoiling nice things, no?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 3:08:27 GMT -5
Heya Andrew & Paul Ha ha @ your monstrosities!! I have Isengard, The 'Ice Cream Cone' and Canary Wharf to contend with, not to mention London clay to dig up. Just for giggles, I once fell into Loch Awe after getting stuck between 2 huge boulders that weren't as close to the shore as I thought they were. I got very wet & very cold, but still remember what great treasure troves the beaches & rivers are up there! I have no hopes of building my own machine as my electrical/engineering/mechanical skills run to rewiring plugs & changing light bulbs only! I have thought of a new design for one if anybody knows anybody who could make it?? I know mine isn't a toy...the very first one I posted was, but I cancelled the order & got the UKGE one instead (2nd hand, but hardly even touched, so am happy) Wouldn't a shaver plug adaptor take care of the voltage difference if I were to get a US model? I found some of the sites on your list, although I think it's worth mentioning that the K-A site says they only manufacture church organs I have little hope of getting any grinders or laps for quite a while, so am happy to stick with Creetown, Manchester & Little Gems for now (read I will mostly hunt down things on the river & play with some of the beach bits I've found over the years - I might even try out a bag of gravel, just out of curiosity) Grit & polish seem to be the biggest minefield in terms of discovering what works & what doesn't + how much etc etc. Longer coarse tumbling + loss of mass mean that I have time to pick up a couple more barrels before I move on to the next stage, so no rush here, unless there's a reason I can't collect up my coarse tumbled for the next stage? Thanks for giving grit amounts in grams tho', as you say a tbsp can be many things (I know this from baking a lot when my arms worked!) Not sure about vibratory tumblers, no clue why, I'm just not....I'm putting it down to lack of knowledge atm & am leaving it for future thought. Lapidary is for the teaching of patience, no? Have already found a good tip for plastic beads here...tile spacers I have Skeena's tuts printed out & sat next to me as my beginners guides I'll check out the Aussie thread too Borax!!!!! I don't know why, but getting it is hell on earth down here...any ideas for substitutes/places to buy that I can get to easily? The only places I've heard of so far are Aldi's own brand washing liquid (£1.99 a bottle) & Boots who are costly (£5+ per 450g box) I think I've understood the clean & wash & clean again between stages down.....but how do I get rid of the slurry? I know I can't put it down the drain or just chuck it in the garden (I have 5 fur babies), so what to do with it in the middle of busy London? I found Sidcup society, but they're quite a long way from me in local terms & not so easy to get to. It's fine, as I'm quite happy playing & exploring by myself for now Unless there's an urgent reason I need to join them??? I have some other rocks (mostly quartzes) I found when I was in Turkey visiting my oldest that I'll post pics of later. I also have a horrible feeling that my ex 'hid' all my other collected over many years beach treasures in the gravel he put down in my front garden. I shall have fun hunting them down out there at some point lol Thanks very much for all the great info & encouragement
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 6:09:20 GMT -5
Warning!!!: American Borax is on the Prohibited (banned) items list for the whole of Europe not just EEC countries, so don't buy American Borax as it will be refused access if found into any countries in the whole of Europe and you will loose your money and gain a possible a criminal conviction too! American Borax is banned because it is highly toxic to the enviroment, aquatic lifeforms and toxic to wildlife and humans. As a citizen of any nation it is your responsiblity to know the laws of you nation, ignorance is not a defence! Hi everyone Leaverites? Not come across those before. Will read up on grits once I have the basics clear, thanks 2 litre milk cartons could work certainly, thanks!! I can wrap them up in lots of newspaper & put them in the rubbish once they're full I'm not even sure we can get bar soap for laundry any more lol! I have plenty of powdered laundry soap, but think I'll try out the Aldi one for now & see how I get on with it I've bought from the US & China before & haven't had any issues so far & I do check with sellers to make sure any prices include import duties I'll try out MCN, although I found their site layout somewhat confusing. I'll visit a few times to get familiar The whole x is selling y's products under license thing makes my head explode so I try to avoid it where possible. I will take the advice of your good selves as to which ones are good & safe to use here I do soak my lid. It has more to do with my arms being very stiff & weak due to my injuries...it's me, not the barrel in other words I had a quick look & found a nice used one, but it's on auction & that ends before I get paid...tis np, I'm sure another will come up soon I've noted that Lortone are better than Thumlers for UK use Are Palmers the ones who'll order other Lortone products if asked nicely? I can't remember as I've taken in a lot of info over the past few days Found some borax on eBay! Thanks for that...didn't think to look there ha ha thanks for the lovely offer Ian I couldn't resist peeking yesterday & discovered that some of the stones I thought were agates weren't. I'd been out for a little local hunt (the tide was in & there's a large public garden nearby) & found some interesting (to me) bits. So I had a shuffle around & added 2/3rds of a tbsp of rough grit - the grit is what came with the tumbler & has no brand label on it, so I assume it's UKGE's own brand In the TumblerLeveritesThis is what is still in the tumbler from the original load Not in the TumblerAll of these should take a good shineThese are the pieces I removed. & New in the Tumbler. LeveritesThese are the new pieces I added to the Tumbler to make up the weight. I still have the same noise, so believe all to be well in Tumbler world Marble?Calcite Moh's 3.0 Calcite fizzles with a drop of vinegar or Quartzite Moh's 7.0 a steel nail will leave a metalic streak on the stone that can be rubbed off with you fingerThis is one of the Turkish pieces, is it marble? Brown Flint?BoneThis looks & feels very similar to flint, but can't be as it's brown...is it any good for tumbling & anybody know what it is please? I couldn't get the links to work as pics, so I've gone back to links instead. Sorry for any inconvenience Greetings [boutoo] I editied your weblinks that you tried to use as images, if your pics end with ".jpg" they will work in (img)https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3359/3308016624_4562c516a3_o.jpg(/img), but a weblink (img)https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwJOgir6rJ-AU1VMUUtMNUxpTms(/img) won't work, See Sticky #2 for more information, also added a different color just after your pics of what i thought of them in the quote above! A: = 3lb Beach tumbler with 1x 3lb plastic pipe barrel. B: = 3lb Beach tumbler with 2x 1.5lb plastic pipe barrels. Leaverite = Garbage that you should have left where you found it. Under Licence basically is way to sell your business without any money changing hands, this means that the original owner and their decendants get a percentage of say 5% of every sale over the next 500 years for example. Borax go into your local independant pharmacy / chemist (not Boots, Tesco and other supermarket chains that have a pharmacy / Chemist) order a 500g pack of "Borax PH Eur", it was £1.75 in 2009. [iant]: Thanks for the weblink I will add it to Vendors Worldwide at some point, on price point it's £118.20 + extra postage, but Rockshed is still ahead at £118.78, including Vat at 20% plus Parcel Farce's £8 ransome demand to your door and if the "220V 50hz Lortone 3A" packaged weight is less than 2kg (4.4lb) it's worth the risk as it to get it from Rockshed as if it skips customs inspection could save you another £27 and shawn usually knocks about $50 off the custom price. Please check out my Sticky's below. -- Please click images to open larger images in a new Tab, same with everything that is Underlined! 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!
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Post by boutoo on Aug 21, 2015 8:16:34 GMT -5
Thanks Andrew...not sure why my own pics won't show? The links are to my GDrive, so they should, surely? I posted while you were editing, apologies :blush: It's a long time since I had to write any code at all, so am rusty...don't worry, I'll get there with it eventually No US Borax, got it! Am pretty savvy when it comes to legal things as I'm a Philosophy & Anthropology student. What's on offer on eBay is UK/EU standard, so should be safe I haven't come across any Beach named Tumblers & as I said before the K-A website only lists church organs & accessories as far as I was able to determine & I did have a pretty good look around there. Hopefully, I can find a 2nd hand Euro Lortone to play with at some point. I'll also have a look at Rockshed later I have a Chemist just around the corner, I'll try them, thanks The 'marble' one is too hard & heavy for Calcite (isn't that fossilised chalk?) & it doesn't scratch with anything I could find around the house (nail, scissors) & the crystal shapes/formations are wrong for any kind of quartz that I've ever seen. Bone? o.O Ok...fossilissed, I take it? Does it polish? I ask because I've got loads of it, big & small I also have some orange pieces that are translucent, but very similar to carnelian in colour....I'll take pics. Not sure what they are & don't have my tiles for testing yet. Will ask if there are a couple of old ones at Topps or Wickes next time I'm in that area
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2015 8:52:52 GMT -5
Thanks Andrew...not sure why my own pics won't show? The links are to my GDrive, so they should, surely? I posted while you were editing, apologies It's a long time since I had to write any code at all, so am rusty...don't worry, I'll get there with it eventually No US Borax, got it! Am pretty savvy when it comes to legal things as I'm a Philosophy & Anthropology student. What's on offer on eBay is UK/EU standard, so should be safe I haven't come across any Beach named Tumblers & as I said before the K-A website only lists church organs & accessories as far as I was able to determine & I did have a pretty good look around there. Hopefully, I can find a 2nd hand Euro Lortone to play with at some point. I'll also have a look at Rockshed later I have a Chemist just around the corner, I'll try them, thanks The 'marble' one is too hard & heavy for Calcite (isn't that fossilised chalk?) & it doesn't scratch with anything I could find around the house (nail, scissors) & the crystal shapes/formations are wrong for any kind of quartz that I've ever seen. Bone? o.O Ok...fossilissed, I take it? Does it polish? I ask because I've got loads of it, big & small I also have some orange pieces that are translucent, but very similar to carnelian in colour....I'll take pics. Not sure what they are & don't have my tiles for testing yet. Will ask if there are a couple of old ones at Topps or Wickes next time I'm in that area Greetings [boutoo] there are only three companies that list beach, the 1st two it's "Beech" instead of "Beach" only for high end machines and Hilton Brothers Ltd whom has the correct spelling listed for all machines. www.littlegemsrockshop.co.uk/acatalog/Stone-Polisher-Machines.htmlwww.ukge.com/en-gb/Lapidary/Stone-Tumblers__c-p-0-0-14-252.aspxwww.manchesterminerals.co.uk/acatalog/Tumbling_Machines.htmlPlease check out my Sticky's below. -- Please click images to open larger images in a new Tab, same with everything that is Underlined! 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!
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Post by boutoo on Aug 22, 2015 14:10:14 GMT -5
Hey Andrew Ahhhh all of them were listed as UKGE one when I looked...doesn't matter so much as I know which one it is I've been busy over the past couple of days!! I thought I'd take you all to 'my' little bit of the Thames & if you're patient enough, you'll see/hear me get soggy socks Here are my clean & semi sorted finds. Hopefully not all of them are Leaverites - the 3 black ones at the top are almost like charcoal, but somewhat harder - still soft, but harder than charcoal..they'll probably crumble, so I won't tumble them & the white one is just a piece of the calcite that I picked up I found a nice piece of slate - at least I think it is & if all of the above are completely rubbish, I'm still happy because I found this fist sized piece of rose quartz What are these? & these? Most are still wet from cleaning
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Post by Shelbeeray on Aug 23, 2015 18:19:07 GMT -5
The last two photos look like especially good ones for tumbling as a few look like they may be agates! Is the area of Thames you are rock hunting a shipping lane where coal may be carried on ships? Anthracite is a hard coal, but still fairly soft...
This groups looks much better for tumble practice than the first ones you had posted pics of. Can't tell what the others are but it looks like you might have some granitidorites, basalt and perhaps some shale...
I think this batch will make for a more interesting tumble. Because there is such a mix, and because some might be softer, keep an ear on your tumbler in case the slurry gets too thick.
Isn't rock hunting grand? I live two blocks away from our river, the Skeena, and I have a blast finding different rocks. I started out tossing different ones in the tumbler and now know which ones, that are local to my area, are good for polishing.
Have fun exploring!!
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Post by boutoo on Aug 24, 2015 5:09:23 GMT -5
Not any more sadly, but it was a part of the shipping lane for centuries & that particular little bit was where the Navy officers lived & the stores were kept. It got very heavily bombed in WWII because that's where the officers lived & the stores were kept, hence all the old bricks, broken blue & white china & old roof tiles visible in the video. The chalk floats up from the Wash (S. Essex & N. Kent) & down from The Cotswolds where the Thames begins & where I hope to move to...tons of lovely rock up there I've been trying to find a database that has habitat, raw & polished pics of rock types & not had much joy, but I mailed the Natural History Museum & they said I can make an appointment to take them in & show them or mail them pics...not sure which is the better option tho' ha ha My slurry has got darker (coffee/dirty caramel coloured), but is still thin I WILL find nice rocks somewhere!! I'm determined
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2015 7:22:07 GMT -5
Greetings [boutoo] that depends on how much Fixed 80 Silicon Carbide you put in at the start, my guess is half a tablespoon about 10-15g, 40g is my recommeded minimum for 1.5lb barrel. The white stone in your last picture looks agate like, for tips on how to take photographs stones see Taking Photos - CONCLUSION. Please check out my Sticky's below. -- Please click images to open larger images in a new Tab, same with everything that is Underlined! 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!
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Post by boutoo on Aug 25, 2015 8:02:02 GMT -5
Hi Andrew I'm sorry, it's 2lb barrel, not 1.5. I probably posted wrongly in my newbie ignorance I stopped the tumbler completely I cleaned it out & have been taking individual pics of all my rocks. I should finish tomorrow morning, yay!! They are all taken on my kitchen table under yellow light with a tape measure for scale by my S4 mini on auto settings - not perfect, but they look a lot clearer now. All the darker stones I put on a piece of kitchen towel & the lighter ones I'll put on an old t-shirt From all that I've learned here. I currently have all the ones that are like the ones in the last pic in the last post getting cleaned with some washing powder (30ml Tesco's Ambience Bio). They've been in for about 2 hours, so I'm going to give them another 4 before checking on them. Andrew do you have a table for your grit guide? I got a bit confused with it Am getting old ha ha I'm also beginning to suspect that what I was taught is milky quartz, may actually be marble, still not sure tho' My local chemist didn't have any Borax. He said he can't get it, but I have a few others I can try so I'll keep at it I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of making you a couple of tables for the grit guide (the ones I have are UKGE SiC 400 & 80 + Cerium Oxide) Rotary PDF, Rotary DocVibratory PDF, Vibratory Doc
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