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Post by youp50 on Apr 2, 2017 19:20:08 GMT -5
Thanks. I tried to google and that was the only answer they offered. Pretty sure USPS is less expensive than Seal Team 7. For sure less drama.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 2, 2017 16:50:27 GMT -5
Amazing spectackulated solanum tuberosum or 'spud' as we call it in this neck of the woods! Welcome and thanks for the stroll. So how do the alien sand shapes form: dewatering or something else? I think they misjudge our gravitational pull and hit a little hard. There never is any sign of burnt or scorched material, so it must be from landing... Now for the truth, as ice forms on the beach it tends to clump up. Wind and waves tend to cover the ice with sand. When the ice melts, it leaves those little landing rings.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 2, 2017 14:27:01 GMT -5
LFRB? As is little boat the special forces guys use?
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Post by youp50 on Apr 2, 2017 7:07:04 GMT -5
Its all about the regional economy. Prior to fracking in America, energy costs were headed up. Now natural gas is so cheap that some producers are burning the excess.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 1, 2017 16:44:45 GMT -5
RPM confuses me. It seems to me I need to be more concerned with the speed of the tumbler. Rim speed? A 4 inch barrel is running approx 35 % slower than a 6 in which is 23 % slower than an 8 in barrel, all driven at the same rpm. How fast in feet per minute should one design for?
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Post by youp50 on Apr 1, 2017 14:56:06 GMT -5
My wife had the best find of the day. Museum quality spectackulated solanum tuberosum. Some red banding and freckling. Much softer than a Lake Superior agate.
Thanks for coming for a walk, and keeping still so as not to spoil the gracious goodness bestowed upon us by our Creator.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 1, 2017 14:50:45 GMT -5
My wife (of nearly 43 years) and I took a beach walk. Under the pretense of agate hunting. The reality was, I needed to look at the condition of my fishing hole . It should be obvious to the most casual of observer that too much ice is blocking my access. So we went to see what was to be seen. The beach needs a good hard rain to wash the sand from the stones. The little plastic bag demonstrates the high expectations we have. We have our local alien 'sand circles', our particular species of aliens are kind of small and are not into abductions and mind washes. They like the quiet of a calm lake as much as I do. Its so quiet my old ears scream for background noise. Hearing protection helps save your hearing, it does not totally prevent tinnitus. This particular beach has lots of 'Jacobsville sand stone'. There are some great old buildings constructed of it, from Marquette to Calumet. Wonderful carvings on some of the buildings. It became a choice building material after people found out store fronts, pine construction, and fire gives everyone a 'do over' We did find a couple with some little chance of being anything more than coffee table bowl fodder.
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Post by youp50 on Apr 1, 2017 8:35:32 GMT -5
There is a solar powered steam driven generating station in the south west. I believe the birds are called 'smokers', the ones that fly through the concentrated sun beams, instant death and a smoking carcass plummeting to the earth.
Check out the many hits 'Ivanpah' will get you. A great idea, brought to reality with massive federal aid, that seems to be unable to perform as planned.
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Post by youp50 on Mar 31, 2017 21:30:12 GMT -5
I would have 6 please
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Post by youp50 on Mar 31, 2017 21:19:30 GMT -5
Yea, I know fitters use them. I also know upper midwestern fitters call 'em Polish Cannons. I am a fitter near the end of my career.
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Post by youp50 on Mar 31, 2017 21:16:21 GMT -5
Googling grinding wheel composition brought me to an enlightening dissertation on wheel construction. www.kehih-kogyo.co.jp. (Sorry, I have not figgured out cut and paste on chrome book) The most interesting and available method of binding seems to be the foaming method. Urethane foam, elastic and water resistant properties. Urethane foam is best known to us as "Great Stuff" If you decide to mess with this stuff you need to keep it off your skin. Some people develop a severe allergic reaction to the stuff. It is an accumulative effect, every time you get exposed is one time closer to the ER.
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Post by youp50 on Mar 31, 2017 14:40:13 GMT -5
Great work. A grasshopper, nylon cargo basket, and a young partner could get many a large rock to your vehicle. I haven't figured out how to paste with this chrome book so google 'sumner grasshopper'. And know that they are referred to as "Polish Cannons".
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Post by youp50 on Mar 31, 2017 14:25:45 GMT -5
Nicely done. My name is Solar. I've studied it for decades. Power is way cheaper than buying panels and accessories. And if they let you guys build modern nukes the enviro power guys would be doomed. No new nukes for many years to come. Coal fired plants and co-gens the same. Co-gens being gas turbines with after burners supplying heat to a boiler to supply a steam turbine. Natural gas in America is too inexpensive to use at peak efficiency. Thus we have utilities building diesel generators powered by natural gas generating stations. If I was going to take my new found obsessive compulsive hobby off line, I would fabricate an 'S' rotor wind spinner and use it to spin my tumblers directly. Prior to the electrification of rural America, there were wind driven grain grinders, water pumps and such. Same idea.
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Post by youp50 on Mar 27, 2017 7:14:59 GMT -5
I may have been spoiled right from the start. I do not live very far from Kingsley North. One just makes a left turn, through the door, start bagging your desires, weigh, mark and pay. I mail ordered some Botswana river bed agates from another supplier and was very pleased. So I ordered another bunch and some Jasper that Kingsley does not have. The jasper was 3/8" to 1 1/2" grade. Is it normal for this size to be very thin? Its more like chips that I doubt I would bother with tumbling if I were busting my own rough. I am sitting on the fence about returning this rough.
(On the brighter side, we picked a beach that had a sand lift put on it. It appeared the sand was river or harbor sand. There is some fairly nice brown quartz here.)
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Post by youp50 on Mar 23, 2017 15:41:51 GMT -5
Prayers to you. My Mom went Home at Easter time 17 years ago. Its a tough time. You are a fine son to take care of your mother for that long. You are the better man, do not let other family members bring you to their level. God bless you.
You have tears rolling down my cheeks.
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Post by youp50 on Mar 23, 2017 15:24:59 GMT -5
I have inherited several gallons of ceramic media. My father-in-law was a gunsmith. The media does not smell of any oil or metal working fluids, nor does it leave an oil film. Its broken in. Two different colors, a grey and an off-white. There are a few darker specks on the media.
Is there anyway to determine if this is suitable as a carrier for tumbling or does it have a grit and grinding action of its own?
Thanks.
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Post by youp50 on Mar 23, 2017 14:29:02 GMT -5
If you had the opportunity to make a cab from a sulphite ore speciman, knowing it would likely oxidize if it got wet, what would you seal it with?
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Post by youp50 on Mar 21, 2017 18:20:51 GMT -5
I do not know what the outside of your shop looks like, but...
I would ventilate the cabinet out doors. A low dollar 1 1/2 gallon shop vac under 40 at most stores, a hole in the cover to adapt the hose, a piece of pvc out the wall, hook your vacuum up outside. Keep the filter paper changed. Probably would not use it for diesel or kerosene based cutting fluids.
I would devise an air eductor for those fluids. Drill a hole at 30 degrees or so in the pvc. Stick a pipe into the hole. Hook up an air line, low pressure maybe 15 psi and suck the mist outside with no danger of ignition.
I have the pleasure of pushing a saw out into the snow for 5 or 6 months per year, much preferred to discharge the mist out of doors.
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TSP
Mar 16, 2017 20:37:35 GMT -5
Post by youp50 on Mar 16, 2017 20:37:35 GMT -5
Any product labeled "Phosphate free" TSP is not trisodium phosphate.
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TSP
Mar 9, 2017 18:11:57 GMT -5
Post by youp50 on Mar 9, 2017 18:11:57 GMT -5
Does the real Trisodium Phosphate (na3po4) have a use in tumbling?
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