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Post by MsAli on Mar 25, 2018 11:20:27 GMT -5
Current batch in the Lortone. Have another going in the HF Been running these since Feb 1st What do y'all have tumbling?
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saxplayer
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Post by saxplayer on Mar 26, 2018 11:44:04 GMT -5
No pics - tumbling 4 lbs mixed jasper (Desert, Mexican Red, Leopard Skin, Zebra, Kambaba and Serape). Excited to see how these look in 2-4 weeks!
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 11:59:50 GMT -5
No pics - tumbling 4 lbs mixed jasper (Desert, Mexican Red, Leopard Skin, Zebra, Kambaba and Serape). Excited to see how these look in 2-4 weeks! Thank you-I like to see what others are tumbling and how it is going for them I am going on 2 months and they still have a long ways to go
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Mar 26, 2018 14:34:27 GMT -5
Got 3 barrels rolling all the time. Right now I have this running . . .
- 6 pounds - Rocks from the Traveling Rock Box. Should be pushing these through to polishing stages today. There are also some rocks in there that I collected in South Carolina last month.
- 6 pounds - Some clear glass lenses from theatrical lighting along with some local self collected rocks . The glass will be added to the colored glass that finished Stage 1 last month and all will start polish stages at todays cleanout.
-3 pounds - This barrel has been rolling rocks from the Family Dollar store in stage 1 for a few months now.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 14:38:03 GMT -5
Got 3 barrels rolling all the time. Right now I have this running . . . - 6 pounds - Rocks from the Traveling Rock Box. Should be pushing these through to polishing stages today. There are also some rocks in there that I collected in South Carolina last month. - 6 pounds - Some clear glass lenses from theatrical lighting along with some local self collected rocks . The glass will be added to the colored glass that finished Stage 1 last month and all will start polish stages at todays cleanout. -3 pounds - This barrel has been rolling rocks from the Family Dollar store in stage 1 for a few months now. I cant wait to see the traveling rock box batch!!
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 26, 2018 16:10:11 GMT -5
Six barrels going: two with Petoskey Stones, one with World Wide Tumbling Contest garbage rocks, one with coral and Texas rocks from jamesp, one with mixed scraps from <'))))>< Fish, and I don’t remember what’s in the other barrel, probably somethIng I already mentioned.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 16:12:34 GMT -5
Six barrels going: two with Petoskey Stones, one with World Wide Tumbling Contest garbage rocks, one with coral and Texas rocks from jamesp , one with mixed scraps from <'))))>< Fish , and I don’t remember what’s in the other barrel, probably somethIng I already mentioned. How are your contest rocks coming along? You can see a few of mine above-Lots of fractures in those
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 26, 2018 16:21:40 GMT -5
Six barrels going: two with Petoskey Stones, one with World Wide Tumbling Contest garbage rocks, one with coral and Texas rocks from jamesp , one with mixed scraps from <'))))>< Fish , and I don’t remember what’s in the other barrel, probably somethIng I already mentioned. How are your contest rocks coming along? You can see a few of mine above-Lots of fractures in those
They are not coming along well at all. I think I have two or three pulled out for the second stage. Most of the:are full of holes. I can’t imagine finding five rocks to send in to be judged. I can’t even find parts that are good to cut off from the junk. These are very frustrating rocks to tumble.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 16:29:27 GMT -5
How are your contest rocks coming along? You can see a few of mine above-Lots of fractures in those
They are not coming along well at all. I think I have two or three pulled out for the second stage. Most of the:are full of holes. I can’t imagine finding five rocks to send in to be judged. I can’t even find parts that are good to cut off from the junk. These are very frustrating rocks to tumble. Ok, That makes me feel better about mine. I thought I was royally screwing up I haven't pulled any out for the 2nd stage. I have 1 I really liked, we shall see... it is going to be hard to pick 5 to send in
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 26, 2018 16:42:40 GMT -5
glass glass glass glass
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Post by Jugglerguy on Mar 26, 2018 16:43:34 GMT -5
glass glass glass glass Boring...
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 16:54:21 GMT -5
glass glass glass glass As much as I love your glass (and I really do love it), my heart loves rocks more I was looking at George and big red last night and I know their brother and sisters want you to tumble them
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 26, 2018 18:46:15 GMT -5
glass glass glass glass Boring... Your just jealous. glass glass glass glass As much as I love your glass (and I really do love it), my heart loves rocks more I was looking at George and big red last night and I know their brother and sisters want you to tumble them
I'm just jealous.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 18:51:28 GMT -5
Your just jealous. As much as I love your glass (and I really do love it), my heart loves rocks more I was looking at George and big red last night and I know their brother and sisters want you to tumble them
I'm just jealous. You have nothing to be jealous of
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 26, 2018 19:44:48 GMT -5
Your just jealous. I'm just jealous. You have nothing to be jealous of Oh yea ? Jugglerguy was belittling me. He always picks on me and I am always an angel.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 19:56:00 GMT -5
You have nothing to be jealous of Oh yea ? Jugglerguy was belittling me. He always picks on me and I am always an angel. Angel eh? Uh huh sure you are
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on Mar 26, 2018 19:57:04 GMT -5
OK I will do a more in-depth overview of Whats In My Batch since this was cleanout day and this is the Photo section afterall. This was a 7 day run with these batches. Here is my Tumbling Operation in the garage on a small shelf sitting on two old computers. I have a great stock of grits with dedicated scoops for each one. This would be the Cleanout Operation about 20 feet away in the backyard. All the rough rocks are under the table. On top are rocks finished with stage 1 plus some tubs of used plastic beads from different grit sizes. The sink has a grit recovery system. This is a freshly opened 3 pound barrel with rocks from the Family Dollar store. I am using bulk-grit from jamesp and some of the larger particles can't breakdown in the small barrel. Here's the rocks after washing and before sorting. This is one of the larger 6 pound barrels that had a lot of the material from the Traveling Rock Box that I had a month ago. The slurry was plenty thick with some stones stuck to the sides. The big grit had broken down almost completely. Here it is washed up and half sorted to rerun course stage or pass on to the polish stages. Finally the barrel is filled with more rough stones to a capacity of about 80% and water halfway up to the top of the rocks. After adding grit and recovered slurry the water level will be more than 3/4 to the top of the rocks. Here is the what the Panama looks like. I chipped it off a much larger piece that alikat218 had put into the Rock Box. A bit of a funny shape and a hard stone. Sent it back to Stage 1. This is the Rock Box material that has been passed on and ready for the Polish stages. The Other 6 pound barrel had rocks and clear glass in it. All of the rocks were set aside, and I added all of the clear and colored glass that had finally passed stage 1 and ready to go on to the polishes. Will do a day of cleaning and then start 220 grit tomorrow.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 22:02:56 GMT -5
I love the pictures!! That Panama is coming along, I thought it would be hard. Is there alot of fractures in it?
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Post by MsAli on Mar 26, 2018 22:14:17 GMT -5
I hope the newbies (me included) get something from this. I know I keep learning all the time from all you you.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 27, 2018 3:48:33 GMT -5
I was busy yesterday after having visitors for 3 days. I set up a melt Sunday night. Two 8X12 sheets of clear glass @$6.50 each, $3 worth of yellow crushed glass, and a bunch of broken vase pieces. Melted plate came out noon Monday and weighed 4 pounds 9 ounces. Cut it up with glass cutter and nipped it into pendant sizes. 2+ hours shaping them at the tile saw. Weight was 4 pounds 2 ounces after shaping. Tossed them in a 5 pound capacity 6 inch pipe barrel with SiC screened through a window screen. 3 cups clay. Spinning at 83 RPM which is real fast they will have fine radiuses edges after 30 to 40 hours. Slab was thin, 2 days should be ready for next rotary step. Thicker melt slabs may have to run longer to get them thin for pendants. Also loaded other kiln with about 4 pounds of individual melts. Ready to shape tomorrow Tuesday if time can be had. I made several smaller capacity barrels for each kiln so each load can be rolled as melted and prepped. Have about 10 barrels made from the cheap HDPE pipe for various sized melt loads mostly 6 inch diameter holding from 5 to 9 pounds. Also had a Vibrasonic load come out. Had to clean and start another load in it. The first load of glass in the Lot-O is getting a slight polish on schedule and looking great except I am experiencing some pits. The pits may be from the coarse grind. I changed that load out and am running some polished glass with out pits to see if the Lot-O is pitting it. Hoping the Lot-O will do the glass. Like this smooth running machine. So quiet. It was all day non-stop. Am semi retired so I can dedicate lots of time. Today I go to downtown Decatur and watch the glass blower blow some expensive glass for tumbling. Very excited about getting him to make specialized jewelry patterned glass. Finally figured out how to make another email and install it in mail. It is gmail. Terrible at computers. Now I can open another Etsy account to list the glass. Excited about that too. There is almost no competition on Etsy for tumble polished glass. Tons of flame polished, but not tumble polished. Got about 150 pendants out of yesterday's melt slab. This is how they look after being shaped on the tile saw. The tile saw chips their edges a lot, but the tumbling process quickly removes the chips. At this level of shaping they will come out of the tumbler looking as if hand shaped on a cab machine. Or that is the goal anyway. Funky looking colors. No idea if they will sell. This is re-melted glass and useless to flame polishing bunch, it is almost impossible to flame polish melted glass. It in no way resembles their fused glass. So there is nothing like it on the market. I can't find it anyway. 17X12 slab After cutting with glass cutter Slab at ~700F, yellow glass still orange, most reds are brown
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