fossilbrain
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Post by fossilbrain on Nov 7, 2007 0:25:57 GMT -5
This came from a fist-sized piece of river rock my mother-in-law found in Alaska. If it's pet wood, it's totally not brittle like local Florida pet wood. It's not as hard as agate but seems harder than sodalite:   back:  I cut a little slab off with the Work Force tile saw:  Then worked it over on my jury-wet-rigged (otherwise dry) bench grinder (don't worry too much about this experiment, I'm using a ground fault interrupt circuit and low toxicity, water soluble coolant/lubricant w/rust inhibitors). If it kills my grinder I'm out a $40 grinder I never use to sharpen yard stuff with, and I'll save the SiC wheels I've got on the way. Just using stuff I have around, like the sep funnel found in the closet from somebody's ethnobotany days. Somebody's closet ethnobotany daze:  Then I used higher & higher grades of sandpaper on it. I'm awaiting Dremel disks in the mail, including polishing disk and 14,000 diamond. I tried ZAM on leather in the meantime and it improved it a little. Shame about the fractures, but I've got another piece  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2007 0:34:28 GMT -5
Excellent for your first time. Make sure you have a fault protector on that grinder, just to be on the safe side.
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Post by parfive on Nov 7, 2007 0:39:27 GMT -5
Nice job on that rock so far! Nothing wrong with using some elbow grease.
And that's gotta be the classiest lookin' drip system on RTH!!
Rich
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fossilbrain
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Post by fossilbrain on Nov 7, 2007 0:46:02 GMT -5
LOL, my friend said it was totally ghetto.
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Post by joe on Nov 7, 2007 1:11:09 GMT -5
Cool! I like your first cab whatever it is.
~Now for number two!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2007 1:19:20 GMT -5
I like the cab AND I like your setup.....its nice to see people thinking outside of the box, even if your friend did say its ghetto lol.
Shannon
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Post by Titania on Nov 7, 2007 8:19:59 GMT -5
Wow, that's a great first try! You did an awesome job getting it so uniform! Your lubricant setup is definitely not ghetto. Ghetto would have involved twine, duct tape, straws and an old milk jug. |
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Post by adrian65 on Nov 7, 2007 10:20:18 GMT -5
I will be so happy if my first cab will look so good!
That cooling device reminds me about Leonardo's machines. Does it work? That's what it really matter.
Adrian
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Post by akansan on Nov 7, 2007 10:48:49 GMT -5
I love the pattern on that! LOL, my first drip system involved an empty cat litter bucket hung from a nail in the upper shelf with aquarium tubing and change valves. THAT was ghetto. |
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fossilbrain
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Post by fossilbrain on Nov 7, 2007 10:56:44 GMT -5
The Amazing da Vinci Lube!
Heh, it works great. I was going to put a T and two aquarium valves on, but the glass valve works so nicely, and the one tube is so easy to just move to the hole in the top of the other wheel, I haven't bothered.
Can't wait for my SiC wheels. Home Depot ordered them, so no shipping cost. Actually, it was the only place I found 6" x 3/4" SiC -- Norton Abrasives. They only go up to 120 grit, but I can take it from there with the Dremel. I wasn't sure if a 6" x 1" would fit on the arbor on the bench grinder and leave enough thread; it looked pretty iffy. Maybe I'll hit things with some 220 SiC paper to mediate them from the 120 wheel to the 320 Dremel disks and go up from there (when I get those, too). Really, I'll have $100 into it between the 2 wheels from HD and 2 Dremel disk grind/sand/polish kits from Ameritool.
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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 8, 2007 16:29:23 GMT -5
Darn nice cab for a first try. Keep it up.
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Post by beefjello on Nov 8, 2007 18:48:53 GMT -5
Looks mighty fine to me Fossilbrain! Nice set up with the glassware ;D
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