Post by julietom on Oct 27, 2009 13:14:39 GMT -5
Hello everbody!
I just joined this group this morning, and I am loving all the good input and topic threads. Julie & I have a home-based business, which for the most part involves rockhounding and shopping for good rough here in california, and in Oregon.
We have a nice big workshop, with 4 big saws, and a slew of other lapidary equip. Mostly I slab up rough, and sell slabs and faced-off cobbles on Ebay and Dragonsaye Lapidary auction sites.
Julie-Tom is our vendor name on both sites.
Here is an ebay link:
stores.shop.ebay.com/julie-tom__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Here is one for Dragonsaye:
www.dragonsayeauctions.com/Julie-Thomas-Designs,name,100093,user_id,shop
I joined RTH, to begin the process of improving my rock tumbling skills, which to date have been fairly non-impressive.
I want to use my tumble-vibe to polish cab preforms that I generally rough out to 280grit, while babysitting my slab saws. Ive already learned a lot from reading the vibratory tumbling section. I am in the market for a new 10" bowl or two, for my ray-tech tumble-vibe.
I have one of those 65T barrels from DP which I run on a home-made copy of Diamond Pacific's large commercial tumbler. I decided I needed some walnut shells to help cushion this rough fast acting tumbler, I was beating my rocks to death, or lugging down the machine if i tried to fill the barrel with small beach agates as a filler. (this pushed the barrel weight to around 120 lbs if I remember correctly.)
I also have a home-made tumbler made with a 46" x 20" Tire off the front wheels of a large cement mixer truck. The driver shafts for this tumbler are a pair of 30" printer platens, tandem driven by a 1/2hp motor, which ends up turning the Tire at 6rpm-11rpm. I use #10 grit silicon carbide and it really smoothes out a rough rock in a hurry. I have plywood doors on the sides of the tire, to help keep my slurry and the filler rock from flying out during tumbling. This tumbler is inside a sound-proof room triple-walled inside of my back shed. I have the sound muted to the equivalent of a clothes dryer running inside a closed room next door. (about a 50dbm reduction.)
for the smaller tumblers, I built a 3ft cube out of Sound-board that drops down over the tumbler. This cube is pully mounted to the ceiling of the garage, so I can quickly get it out of the way during tumbler servicing.
It is wonderful to find you folks. OK, Im back off to look at more rockhound finds and photos in that section of the website.
Best Regards,
Thomas Clark
I just joined this group this morning, and I am loving all the good input and topic threads. Julie & I have a home-based business, which for the most part involves rockhounding and shopping for good rough here in california, and in Oregon.
We have a nice big workshop, with 4 big saws, and a slew of other lapidary equip. Mostly I slab up rough, and sell slabs and faced-off cobbles on Ebay and Dragonsaye Lapidary auction sites.
Julie-Tom is our vendor name on both sites.
Here is an ebay link:
stores.shop.ebay.com/julie-tom__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Here is one for Dragonsaye:
www.dragonsayeauctions.com/Julie-Thomas-Designs,name,100093,user_id,shop
I joined RTH, to begin the process of improving my rock tumbling skills, which to date have been fairly non-impressive.
I want to use my tumble-vibe to polish cab preforms that I generally rough out to 280grit, while babysitting my slab saws. Ive already learned a lot from reading the vibratory tumbling section. I am in the market for a new 10" bowl or two, for my ray-tech tumble-vibe.
I have one of those 65T barrels from DP which I run on a home-made copy of Diamond Pacific's large commercial tumbler. I decided I needed some walnut shells to help cushion this rough fast acting tumbler, I was beating my rocks to death, or lugging down the machine if i tried to fill the barrel with small beach agates as a filler. (this pushed the barrel weight to around 120 lbs if I remember correctly.)
I also have a home-made tumbler made with a 46" x 20" Tire off the front wheels of a large cement mixer truck. The driver shafts for this tumbler are a pair of 30" printer platens, tandem driven by a 1/2hp motor, which ends up turning the Tire at 6rpm-11rpm. I use #10 grit silicon carbide and it really smoothes out a rough rock in a hurry. I have plywood doors on the sides of the tire, to help keep my slurry and the filler rock from flying out during tumbling. This tumbler is inside a sound-proof room triple-walled inside of my back shed. I have the sound muted to the equivalent of a clothes dryer running inside a closed room next door. (about a 50dbm reduction.)
for the smaller tumblers, I built a 3ft cube out of Sound-board that drops down over the tumbler. This cube is pully mounted to the ceiling of the garage, so I can quickly get it out of the way during tumbler servicing.
It is wonderful to find you folks. OK, Im back off to look at more rockhound finds and photos in that section of the website.
Best Regards,
Thomas Clark