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Post by youp50 on Aug 28, 2021 13:12:45 GMT -5
Make your seaglass, many folks do. Break your glass and try a few days on 120 grit. Buy glass at thrift stores, be aware many of the reds are a film over clear glass. I discreetly scratch the bottom with a knife. Good greens in 7Up and Rolling Rock. If you do crockery, break the edges with a diamond file and tumbled for a hour and check, you don't want to lose the glazed surface. Reasonable diamond files available from fishing stores.
How did you do on 'moonstones'? My wife cleaned up at San Simeon last winter. A few winters ago we did fair on a agatey swirly jasper? that was toward Morro Bay. There sure were a bunch more people on the beach this past covid winter.
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Post by youp50 on Aug 28, 2021 9:32:04 GMT -5
Hey Ya'll,
I have been gone for awhile. Long story, but I did not bust a head or skin my knuckles. Or go to jail...
Not really tumbling much. One small Thumlers, most are on loan to kids. Somehow I end up supplying grit too. Involving kids in a hobby that does not require a phone is a good thing. I did build a kitchen with cement counter tops. I set in some low grade Blackskin agate and polished the cement down to expose the aggregate. Sold that place and am seriously contemplating a cement counter with Yooperstones set in here. I need to decide about UV bounce and eye damage, maybe.
We have been exploring the UV reactive minerals. We had a grand time on the left coast last winter. My better half was having a grand time. We only had one light then, two now. Lots of reactive stuff on the beach there, the seashells drove me crazy. There is not much reactive minerals here, copper and iron apparently kills the fluorescence qualities of minerals. Good thing for glacier till.
Tumble on.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 13, 2018 22:19:20 GMT -5
With the exception of nuclear waste, there is little damage that man is doing to earth that is not cyclical nor repairable by nature. Might need to realize the cycle is measured in eons.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 13, 2018 22:14:29 GMT -5
Wolf population crashed. The "Hands off policy" is being challenged by the biologists that promoted it. Import wolves, hands on. Reality, no wolves, no need for my position. Must have wolves.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 13, 2018 20:48:53 GMT -5
I always considered humans to be the dumbest animals on Earth. No other animal destroys its only habitat. You can start by researching the moose on Isle Royal and how they are over populating and over grazing the habitat to starvation. It is common and cyclical. Over populate and starvation or disease brought on by poor nutrition. The habitat rebounds during low population density. Predators follow the cycle. Overpopulate, crash, repeat.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 12, 2018 18:29:51 GMT -5
I am pretty sure if you read what they are going to do to you to treat your 4 hour condition it will go flat on its own.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 11, 2018 22:24:22 GMT -5
Investigate what the sand drums are made of. Silicon carbide. I have a diamond wheel for my Dremel that is more like a cut off wheel. Never investigated what else was available
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Post by youp50 on Jan 11, 2018 16:36:33 GMT -5
So maybe some of that on a grinding wheel? I have a LOT of edges to smooth. I guess there is a diamond coated wheel? With a proper face mask, could sand it dry? There are bench type glass grinders that stained glass people use. Some people here put a groove wheel on them and cut a groove in cabs to edge wrap. There are diamond 4 or 5 inch and up hand grinders that some people use. I have the diamond wheel on a hand grinder (probably shouldn't call it a hand grinder or imply that you should grind your hand with it). There are quite a few lapidary supply houses that offer one or both types of grinders.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 21:40:04 GMT -5
I had a bad flash on this post. First, my eyes are assailed by some strutting rooster that had his legs plucked. And then I read where your new avatar is tumbled rooster GUTS. I misread it the first time.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 21:32:28 GMT -5
The white background let's the camera reproduce true reds of the obsidian. I do prefer the dark background, it's easier to look at.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 21:25:20 GMT -5
They look good.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 18:25:38 GMT -5
Within 20 years 70-80% of the buildings I worked on were torn down and replaced with new construction. The price of modernization I guess. As a fitter I worked on quite a few mines, various mills, auto factories, and power houses. Most are there for the long haul. Not mines though, they are built to extract for the life of the ore body. 12 million pounds of copper extracted from the Lake Superior district. Worked on the last to close and the only operating primary nickle mine in the States. Lots of test drilling going on. Three more mines in the permitting process.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 7:03:41 GMT -5
Free and wild things... deer, black bear, various salmonoid. Some lady at a health food store was explaining how some peace exercise she does in the woods gives off positive energy and deer and bear come up to her. I explained my predatory nature and they always ran away from me. She was reluctant to demonstrate for me, I explained I would wear camo, she wasn't buying in. She did eat a plant based diet. I would have gladly given her the contents of the paunch...
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 4:03:17 GMT -5
Bombs away! All are
very nice indeed.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 3:55:59 GMT -5
Please wear respitory protection.
You are demonstrating above average eye to hand coordination.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 10, 2018 2:43:25 GMT -5
I might go against the flow. Always found women in construction trades decent. Maybe even lonely, with men ignoring them. I guess I have never had much trouble talking to ladies.
Building trades gave me outlets to create and leave something behind. And a good paycheck with plenty of time off. I like to convert free and wild things to protein.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 9, 2018 19:58:32 GMT -5
That there is funny, I don't care which college graduated you.
Trouble is you would be a fool to look at her. It got so bad that the topic would come up in orientation. Don't look at a lady or talk to her. Your action may be considered harassment.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 9, 2018 17:53:15 GMT -5
Fitters crabby? Bah Humbug! Always leave competence unto itself.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 9, 2018 4:10:23 GMT -5
Similar arrangement where slurries drop into launders. Not a cross, no need to drain. It drops into a tee with the bottom capped. A 45 on the side outlet pointed down. The idea is the same, use the solids in the fluid to build up a wear resistant plug. The fittings and launders are rubber lined steel. The drop pipe is wire reinforced rubber.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 8, 2018 22:03:01 GMT -5
I am pondering this...
On the subject of open pit mining. What shape should they be? The bowl is the only practical shape. The payload of modern mining dumptrucks exceeds 65tons. They are huge and needs lots of room to operate. No sharp turns and no backing up.
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