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Post by vegasjames on Mar 28, 2024 19:33:19 GMT -5
Great job, nice and tight.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 28, 2024 19:07:12 GMT -5
Happy Birthday
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 28, 2024 7:20:53 GMT -5
Welcome Emily from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 28, 2024 7:16:48 GMT -5
I like using denim. I save my old jeans for helping to buff cabs. I have used old jeans also for a hand buff on Petoskey stones. Old canvas shits seem to work well also. Aren't shits a bit soft and gooey for polishing? Or does the fiber from the canvas firm them up?
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 27, 2024 18:18:29 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum Jamie.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 27, 2024 18:16:23 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 27, 2024 18:10:58 GMT -5
I like using denim. I save my old jeans for helping to buff cabs.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 27, 2024 6:45:29 GMT -5
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 27, 2024 6:38:55 GMT -5
Happy Birthday
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 26, 2024 18:59:17 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
Would help to know the general route you plan to take. Northern route or Southern route.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 26, 2024 18:57:02 GMT -5
No, that is not a meteorite.
Meteorites do not have bubbles like that, should have a smoother surface from ablation, no fusion crust and meteorites that have been on the ground for a while especially long enough for the fusion crust to weather away would look rusty. Only very fresh meteorites are black.
Looks like slag.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 25, 2024 21:46:07 GMT -5
Very nice. My favorite is the teardrop shaped mushroom jasper.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 25, 2024 16:36:50 GMT -5
So is he still around after spraying the electric motor with water?
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 25, 2024 16:30:47 GMT -5
Welcome from Southern Nevada.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 25, 2024 16:27:07 GMT -5
An amazing fact about sand, it is mostly quartz crystals which are ElectretsWhen compressed they generate electricity, which makes a magnetic field and all kinds of strange things occur! Early explorers thought they were hearing spirits of the dead! The pizoelectric effect is also how quartz watches maintain accuracy. A thin quartz slice is cut and exposed to the electricity of the battery, which polarizes the crystal. In turn, the crystal produces its own electrical current with a specific frequency that is used to time the watch.
The piezoelectric effect is also used for various other electronics devices, lighters, pain relieving devices, etc.
What I have always found most interesting about the piezoelectric effect is the body's use of this principle to form bone.
Bone is not just calcium, and more than calcium is needed to form bone and keep it healthy. The most important nutrient for healthy bone is silica, which is absorbed and utilized by the body in the form of orthosilicic acid (OA). OA is used to form and mineralize bone, and is needed for the production of the structural proteins collagen, elastin and chondroitin and for proper functioning of the nervous system. Therefore, OA strengthens hair, nails, teeth bones, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, blood vessels, skin, etc. And a lack of OA, which declines with age due to lower stomach acid levels, can contribute to osteoporosis, osteomalacia, osteopemia, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, diverticulitis, emphysema, wrinkles, etc.
Other nutrients required for healthy bone are vitamin C, proline, lysine, glycine, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, strontium, boron, natural fluoride in trace amounts, traces of zinc and copper as catalysts, vitamins A, D, E, K and essential fatty acids. This is one of the reasons that simply taking calcium, or using very dangerous osteoporosis drugs such as bisphosphonates do not work to reverse osteoporosis.
OA contains silica, which incorporated in to bone as the structural proteins collagen and elastin, that give bones the majority of their strength and the flexibility to absorb force. If our bone were just calcium, our bones would easily snap like a piece of chalk.
When we exercise, we compress the silica, which stimulates the piezoelectric effect if the silica, and this electrodeposits minerals in to the protein matrix of the bone mineralizing the bone and increasing bone density. This is why silica and exercise are so important for bone density. Also why astronauts in space have a hard time maintaining bone density since it is hard to do weight bearing exercises in zero gravity.
It has also been known for many decades that this principle can be used to speed the healing of fractures. Studies found that when electrodes are placed around the fracture, and minute electrical currents applied, this stimulates the piezoelectric effect of bone stimulating bone growth and healing the fractures at a greatly accelerated rate.
I used this same principle a long time ago to grow the end of my thumb back when I cut off about a third of the last digit off in a table saw accident. Normally, this would not grow back on its own. A naturopathic doctor I knew mentioned a silver impregnated nylon invention being used to regrow areas that had been amputated supposedly by driving the silver in to the tissue with electricity. He only had a small dime sized sample though. Some other people up there I knew had been doing more major regeneration of amputated limbs using electricity through argon electrodes. I did not have argon electrodes, but I found an old neon photospectrometer tube to use, and I had a 15,000 volt neon transformer to use. For the silver, I just made a concentrated colloidal silver solution that I soaked the stub in first, then ran the 15,000 volts through the neon tube, which helps disperse the charge, to the stub. It not only killed the pain, but in 6 months I grew the entire thumb, including the nail back. I still have a very tiny scar that is barely visible, and a little nerve damage in the thumb, but the whole thumb is back, which modern "medicine" claims is impossible.
I concluded later that the silver itself does not regenerate the tissue, but rather is the conductor for the electricity, as silver is an excellent conductor. The electricity from the transformer stimulated the regrowth of the tissue as not only is the bone pizeoelectric, but the body itself is electric and thus tissues respond to minute electrical fields. In fact, sharks for example have electrical detection organs called the ampullae of Lorenzini around their snouts that allow them to detect living prey in the dark, under the sand and even when sharks with nicotinic membranes ("eyelids") close their eyes to protect them. So, our bodies are constantly generating and emitting electricity that one role would be for tissue generation.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 24, 2024 19:15:04 GMT -5
James...I can't get the "mad scientist" image out of my head! LOL You should see my kitchen. Experiments all over the place. Just need to be careful what you grab to eat or drink.
One year for Halloween I did go as a mad scientist. Had the outfit then I took a 1000ml Erlenmeyer flask and drilled a larger hole in the top to to fit a distillation column. then I corked the top and on the bottom hole I fitted glass tubing through another cork so the glass tubing extended down to the bottom of the flask. Then I filled the flask with electric blue Kool-Aid. When I sucked on the output of the distillation column, it created a small fountain in the distillation column filling it then coming out the output of the column. A unique mad scientist straw to drink the Kool-Aid.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 24, 2024 10:52:17 GMT -5
Should have added that Flex Seal is just a plain old liquid rubber, which is not durable. Think in terms of a rubber eraser and how easily it breaks up with wear. It is not vulcanized rubber, like car tires, which is a much harder and more durable rubber.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 24, 2024 10:45:46 GMT -5
If you weld a reduced opening, which would be great to keep the rocks from flying out, I would recommend cutting a few half circles along the edge to make it easier to drain the water, sand and mud from the barrel at the end of each day since the sand and mud accumulate and harden in the bottom even while running. This traps some of the smaller stones preventing them from tumbling.
I was suggesting welding on a hatch with a smaller opening in it, so you have access to see in and toss rocks in, add water etc, but you can open it for cleanouts. I agree permanently reducing the opening would be unwise. I saw in a thread about reinforcing old tumbling barrels that flex seal stands up to tumbling pretty well. I Don't remember who posted that, might even have been you which would be embarrassing for me. No, was not me. Tried Flex Seal and it was a disaster. The rocks tore it up right away and I had bits of flex seal embedded in the pits and cracks of the stones. Won't do that again.
I have used Goop to repair holes in rubber tumbling barrels and that holds up excellent. Just rub some on the outside as well as the inside of the crack or hole so that it also works its way in to the crack of hole and let dry thoroughly. Goop was originally made to resole running shoes, so it is very durable. Kind of like the super glue of silicone. Not fluid enough though to line a barrel easily. Maybe if it can be thinned out with some type of solvent first to make it more fluid.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 24, 2024 10:38:22 GMT -5
That's all common sense IMO. Scammers been scamming since long before FB. It's the internet, you can't trust 9/10 what you see. There are legitimate sales happening too, though. I've only had good experiences on marketplace. Yes, I have had a few good experiences as well, but also some bad ones.
Such as some Kentucky geodes I ordered. The ad was very misleading as most the geodes were dime to quarter size. And they sucked. Many were solid nodules, not geodes and no real color, just a bland yellow inside.
Then I ordered a flat lap, which was supposed to include 3 laps and 3 polishing pads. The flat lap and the 3 metal laps came with no problem, but the 3 polishing pads, which are what I really needed were not in the box. I messaged the seller and I am holing he sends me the polishing pads that were supposed to be included as well.
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 24, 2024 10:13:44 GMT -5
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