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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 12:50:54 GMT -5
Jamesp, I don't believe that a very good way to clean your glasses!! Hard to get them any cleaner. Since age 50 we would all like to put reading glasses in the tumbler with 5 pound rocks. I wanna go back to your Texas. Steal your rocks.
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Post by HankRocks on Jun 20, 2017 13:24:02 GMT -5
Suggest you wait for cooler weather!!
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Post by morerockspleaz on Jun 20, 2017 14:06:15 GMT -5
I brought what I had tumbling in course, just some Texas Creek rocks will take pictures before I put them back on. If they were in my tires I am afraid they would have been reduced to dust. Lol
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Post by coloradocliff on Jun 20, 2017 15:15:17 GMT -5
Jamesp, I don't believe that a very good way to clean your glasses!! Hard to get them any cleaner. Since age 50 we would all like to put reading glasses in the tumbler with 5 pound rocks. I wanna go back to your Texas. Steal your rocks. Good luck on stealing her rocks Jim, She rents a semi and brings them with her. The whole state sinks two feet when the truck crosses the border. hehehe
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 17:48:35 GMT -5
Hard to get them any cleaner. Since age 50 we would all like to put reading glasses in the tumbler with 5 pound rocks. I wanna go back to your Texas. Steal your rocks. Good luck on stealing her rocks Jim, She rents a semi and brings them with her. The whole state sinks two feet when the truck crosses the border. hehehe
Makes sense. Texas has the rocks. Maybe a load of hemp on the way back. Half of Texas is employed by the border patrol, hmmm.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 17:51:33 GMT -5
Suggest you wait for cooler weather!! Summer in S Texas sounds past hot Henry.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 18:04:18 GMT -5
I brought what I had tumbling in course, just some Texas Creek rocks will take pictures before I put them back on. If they were in my tires I am afraid they would have been reduced to dust. Lol Lol, might have made the vehicle ride a bit rough. Maybe rocks tumble faster at high altitude,hmm ? Cooler temps...
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Post by morerockspleaz on Jun 20, 2017 18:07:20 GMT -5
Good luck on stealing her rocks Jim, She rents a semi and brings them with her. The whole state sinks two feet when the truck crosses the border. hehehe
Makes sense. Texas has the rocks. Maybe a load of hemp on the way back. Half of Texas is employed by the border patrol, hmmm. No I don't send hemp back. I send Colorado Rocks back to Texas- trade them out. LOL
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 18:21:30 GMT -5
Makes sense. Texas has the rocks. Maybe a load of hemp on the way back. Half of Texas is employed by the border patrol, hmmm. No I don't send hemp back. I send Colorado Rocks back to Texas- trade them out. LOL Nice gig. Collecting and swapping two hot rock spots. Can't get better than that ! Texas + hemp, those words just don't seem to go together.
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Post by coloradocliff on Jun 20, 2017 18:39:03 GMT -5
Makes sense. Texas has the rocks. Maybe a load of hemp on the way back. Half of Texas is employed by the border patrol, hmmm. No I don't send hemp back. I send Colorado Rocks back to Texas- trade them out. LOL You guys got rock to trade? .. I can find hemp.. Thinking place mats, rope hemp hats or What?? grin.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 19:01:50 GMT -5
LOL
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Post by morerockspleaz on Jun 20, 2017 19:18:55 GMT -5
You guys are trouble makers. LoL I am going to do my porch pillars out of petrified wood and see how the wood peckers like that. Maybe they will go somewhere else.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 20, 2017 19:37:27 GMT -5
Had a crazy neighbor in suburbia Atlanta as a kid. Out came the 12 gauge when they pecked on his gutters. Same with Blue Jays. great amusement.
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Post by morerockspleaz on Jun 20, 2017 20:58:04 GMT -5
They will drive you nuts for sure. They have destroyed two porch columns, last year had to cover the house eaves with metal trim. So I guess will just have to do the whole house in sheet metal and rock lol. Did you grind anymore rocks today?
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Post by jamesp on Jun 21, 2017 5:32:52 GMT -5
They will drive you nuts for sure. They have destroyed two porch columns, last year had to cover the house eaves with metal trim. So I guess will just have to do the whole house in sheet metal and rock lol. Did you grind anymore rocks today? Had to replace the 18" blade on rock saw. Committed not to saw till I readjust the alignment to keep it cutting smooth. Going to saw some cubes to attempt some small spheres and saw junk away from big rocks for tumbling. The saw speeds up prep for big tumbles. There is a problem. I brought back near a ton of Rio's and out of that bunch it is hard to find 1-2-3 pound cobbles that don't have either a bad fracture or lobes that need sawing off. I targeted perfect cobbles for big tumbles, that was largest part of mission. Even staying focused, I found it difficult to find cobbles that size w/out defects. I want to build a simple rock clamp that is like a lathe. Two rotating shafts opposite each other. Held in bearings. That can clamp the rock on each side. Then attach a long arm to one of the shafts. Then hand a weight on the long arm. Then let the weighted arm rotate the rock against the diamond wheel. So that it will cut a radius on the face of the rock unattended. Similar to a rock saw with auto gravity feed, but it cuts a round face on the rock. Keep reclamping the rock till it is a sphere or close to one. @shotgunner It would clamp the rock like this small lathe. Perfect size, perfect rotating clamping system. All I want is the rotating clamp. Replace motor with a hand crank or gravity arm to rotate rock very slow. Turn rock against spinning grinding wheel instead of a cutting chisel. These little used Craftsmen lathes can be found cheap:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 7:59:12 GMT -5
And the cutting head is a 7" circular saw with diamond blade. I would be concerned that wood lathe is too fast. Is it speed controlled?
I have been fleshing out a purpose built machine. That uses patterns to achieve shapes like candlesticks and spheres.
Have to get a different gas to MIG it is stainless.
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 21, 2017 8:50:41 GMT -5
That would be a sweet setup for sure....
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Post by jamesp on Jun 22, 2017 5:20:15 GMT -5
And the cutting head is a 7" circular saw with diamond blade. I would be concerned that wood lathe is too fast. Is it speed controlled? I have been fleshing out a purpose built machine. That uses patterns to achieve shapes like candlesticks and spheres. Have to get a different gas to MIG it is stainless. Lathe is way too fast. I would remove the motor and do a worm gear drive at 1/8 RPM or slower. Preferably with a slip clutch. Very slow, set it and walk away. Same feed rate as a rock saw except even slower. SLOW. Let the diamonds do their job-slowly. Re-chuck rock and set her again to cut another radius. And yes, profiles, not necessarily spheres alone. That little Craftsmen lathe has the chucking arrangement for small stuff like rocks. I see them in the junk yards on occasion el cheapo. Gimme one, I'll get it rotating at a snail's pace. Put some rubber cups on the arbor to chuck up a rock. Mount it to a big base plate. Move a tile saw to and from it to replace cutting chisels. That tile saw motor is one tough little SOB. My $99 tile saw has been sitting out in the weather for almost 30 years. Can't kill it.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 22, 2017 5:22:10 GMT -5
That would be a sweet setup for sure.... Diamond wheels a different animal in modern times Michael. Price has dropped to zilch.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 22, 2017 5:30:20 GMT -5
They will drive you nuts for sure. They have destroyed two porch columns, last year had to cover the house eaves with metal trim. So I guess will just have to do the whole house in sheet metal and rock lol. Did you grind anymore rocks today? Brick or rock will slow those beaks down lol. Do you guys have Pileated wood peckers ? They get big. They have a habit of pecking rear view mirrors out of their socket. Never seen an animal want to kill himself like one of those morons. They sound like monkeys in the forest. Note insects ringing in background. ability:
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