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Post by Debra on Mar 21, 2005 19:43:44 GMT -5
I've read to use baking soda or Tums in all the stages of grit except the pre-polish and polish to prevent gas from blowing your lid off. Do you use the above? Have you had any problems with your lids flipping off?
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Duckbean
fully equipped rock polisher
Looking for rocks in all the wrong places
Member since February 2005
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Post by Duckbean on Mar 23, 2005 22:26:00 GMT -5
Hi Debra, I've never needed to use baking soda ,but I've heard that bottle glass will out gas or blow your lid so it is best to use a little soda. You should join the board, there's a lot of nice and helpfull people out there. Check out the general board too good way to get to know folks
Bob
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jrtrio
has rocks in the head
With10 tumblers tumbling the sound is so delicious!Send me more of those little red fellas, please?
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Post by jrtrio on Mar 15, 2006 14:27:47 GMT -5
Actually the biggest culprit to gas in tumbling comes from bone! Amazing what happens to bone and other animal/human fossils that just happen to get in the mix. I've used tums ever since the first time I tumbled material I and others gathered in the Red Rock area of Colorado. Using the "kiddie" tumbler that I started with, I had gone down to check the rocks and when I loosened the lid it "spit" grit and water all over me!! Yummy! Cher, just so you know, I got my 3#er today from The Shed via Fed Ex. And now I can be a "professional" ;-) with my 4 8ozer's and the 3#er all just a tumbling away. I'm going to use the 3 step grit system I bought at the Hiddenite Emerald Hollow Mine for the first batch in the 3#. Amazing how many different ways to tumble stones! I've read over 20 different "instructions" to tumble. Some that came with tumbling kits. Thumlers uses a 4 step approach and others just a 3 step. And the difference comes in to how long to tumble the second step in the 3 step version. And after reading this one guys account of how to build a 5 gallon tumbler where he says that after a week of tumbling very large stones in 60/90 grit that it becomes 120/220 and finer the longer he runs it. And did you know that in the "kiddie" set up the polish contains 5 tbsps of polish!! It does bubble up nicely so I wonder if it has soap in it?!!
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