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Oh yea. Looking good Mike. Keep on posting your progress. Vibrating rocks is witchcraft sometimes. My vibe at it's present settings will not polish Mohs 5 and 6 rocks. Does great with Mohs 7. I think the amplitude plays a big role.
Been experimenting with this, trying to isolate & direct the vibrations to where they need to go. Not finished, trying to come up with a holder & barrel combination that will work. Any ideas are welcome but I don't have any welding equipment.
Just for S&Gs I attached a large bottle with bungees. About 6-7 lbs of rocks. Hard to see in the vids but it really rolls the rocks.
Not really my idea of fun. Just noticed the new avatar, sounds like a good choice. One question, was he born in the U.S.? Sorry just trying to get the tough questions answered ahead of the election....
Actually, yes. He was birthed in Providence RI of all places.
Oh, should have made that connection. Old family money there, fortune came from whaling I beleive.
Not really my idea of fun. Just noticed the new avatar, sounds like a good choice. One question, was he born in the U.S.? Sorry just trying to get the tough questions answered ahead of the election....
MrMike , looks like you have access to plow. Repeated plowing and mowing sure nuff has a way of discouraging a bamboo coming back. Or just continually mowing. I have no luck with Round Up.
Users name, type @ then their user name. @ MrMike with no space between the '@' and the 'M'. MrMikejamesp
No plow, rented a bobcat. Tried roundup & burning with propane torch to no avail. Just going to keep mowing it down.
What part of the country Mike ? Love tumbling quartzite. Georgia and Alabama stuff. Looks like you are east Tennessee. Great quartzite in the TVA lakes up that way. North GA to TN. Fun and fast tumble. Anxious to see your finish. Check out the purple. Found that purple up in your TVA lakes, Lots of arrowheads made of quartzite in this TVA lakes, a material of choice in that territory.
Here is some very dense quartzite from S Alabama. Stuff is very well bonded together. Some has mica glitters in it. Quartzite is bonded sand, well this Alabama quartzite was bonded super fine sand. Made it dense as ever. most of the color comes from iron and other metals.
What part of the country Mike ? Love tumbling quartzite. Georgia and Alabama stuff. Looks like you are east Tennessee. Great quartzite in the TVA lakes up that way. North GA to TN. Fun and fast tumble. Anxious to see your finish. Check out the purple. Found that purple up in your TVA lakes, Lots of arrowheads made of quartzite in this TVA lakes, a material of choice in that territory.
Here is some very dense quartzite from S Alabama. Stuff is very well bonded together. Some has mica glitters in it. Quartzite is bonded sand, well this Alabama quartzite was bonded super fine sand. Made it dense as ever. most of the color comes from iron and other metals.
I'm in the Tri Cities next to VA border. That AL stuff is really neat looks like agate. Would love to pick that creek. Read that you grow bamboo, I've got lots of P.vivax green stripe I'm trying to get rid of. It was 30ft tall a couple of years ago then a cold winter killed it. Cut it all down this spring & it is spreading like wildfire.
The building I work in was built in the 1940s and still has the original landscaping with old boxwoods and the like. Anyways it is mulched with crushed quartzite in various colors. Even found a few white milky whites pieces with inclusions that may be glass. Been rolling these for a few weeks in coarse.
Thanks, put them back in 500 for a week & now in polish. Really need to get a camera. My iPhone pics look extremely "amateurish", well I suppose they are.
Can't really tell from the pictures how good the batch is, will need to examine them in person. I'll PM you my address & will even pay the shipping..... Seriously, beautiful tumbles. Some of the coolest rocks I've seen. Well done.
Looks like you've got some good vibe action going there. You may want to move that switch. Looks like it wants to eat your hand when you reach in there. ;)
Had at least 2mm clearance, wasn't even close using the jamesp danger scale..... Seriously though will reach switch from back in the future. Just went through the front for the video.
Good start on my homemade vibe. Next is to figure out how to attach a holder for rock container. Would have been better to mount the motor vertically but it has a built in fan for cooling on that end.
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