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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jul 27, 2012 15:30:30 GMT -5
Decided to do some water cutting before filling with oil again. Of course that meant cleaning the saw two times! ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) Anyway just this little bit of cutting sure made a big enough mess only this time it was a grey mess! First pics show what things looked like after cutting that last batch of SDR!!!!!!! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) ![](http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af359/DonniesTreasureShop/Donnies%20Rocky%20Treasures/IMG_3456.jpg) ![](http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af359/DonniesTreasureShop/Donnies%20Rocky%20Treasures/IMG_3457.jpg) Here's a few slices of Lazulite from Graves Mtn. ![](http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af359/DonniesTreasureShop/Donnies%20Rocky%20Treasures/IMG_3460.jpg) Some Pinolith ![](http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af359/DonniesTreasureShop/Donnies%20Rocky%20Treasures/IMG_3459.jpg) With the oil back in it this is what is in there now! End slice. ![](http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af359/DonniesTreasureShop/Donnies%20Rocky%20Treasures/IMG_3458.jpg) Ohhhhh & I got a question for you!!!!! After you take out the plug & drain the oil, get everything all nice & clean, put it all back together again & get'er ready to go, what's the ONE thing you must always remember to do? ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) ??
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 27, 2012 15:34:53 GMT -5
I have some Graveyard plume agate that looks like it came from the other end of that last pic!
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Jul 27, 2012 15:39:05 GMT -5
make sure that the plug is replaced ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 28, 2012 2:01:16 GMT -5
ditto on replace plug
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Post by 3rdrockfromthefun on Jul 28, 2012 6:56:29 GMT -5
I was going to say 'put oil in it' but ya, the plug sounds like one of those things that'd be easier to forget than oil.
You're going to have to find a way to squeeze enough oil out of that mud so that you can sell it as modelling clay!
Love that pinolith!
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jul 28, 2012 7:20:54 GMT -5
Yeah, Frank! Love that on the modeling clay!! LOLOL Squeezing may well be in order because it sure as heck isn't draining very fast!!!!! Well guess who forgot the plug!!!!!! Thank God it's only a 10"er! Thought you all might get a laugh out of that!! It was late, I was tired, it was almost dark & someone was talking to me! I spaced right over it!!!!!!!
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Post by 3rdrockfromthefun on Jul 28, 2012 8:50:51 GMT -5
Yeah, Frank! Love that on the modeling clay!! LOLOL Squeezing may well be in order because it sure as heck isn't draining very fast!!!!! Well guess who forgot the plug!!!!!! Thank God it's only a 10"er! Thought you all might get a laugh out of that!! It was late, I was tired, it was almost dark & someone was talking to me! I spaced right over it!!!!!!! And thank goodness you weren't sawing on your living room carpet (generally a bad idea I'd think - reserved for the worst of the worst couch potatoes who like the smell of rock oil as much as frito's oil) Question for you Donnie - what's your procedure for removing oil from the cut rock? They don't look oily in your pictures (maybe it's the type of oil you use - I don't know). Have you considered a mud (drag) saw? Add a bit of grit to that stuff and you're all set to slice your way through huge rocks the old fashioned way :cheesy: (they SO need better emoticons here...) Thanks!
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jul 28, 2012 9:34:31 GMT -5
Not no, but hell no, Frank! No drag saw! There is no place for something like that here where I live. Whatever mud is left will be in the trash or in the bay! I use mineral oil & all cutting is done outside. I do believe I am going to have to give the patio (travertine) a good soapy scubbing when I am done though! I have a bucket of verrrrry soapy water I am putting the slabs in after they are cut. Yesterday when I opened up the bucket, it had been sitting out in the sun for about 4 or 5 days, the water was bordering on hot! As soon as the slabs come off the saw, they hit the bucket!
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Post by itsandbits on Jul 28, 2012 9:53:55 GMT -5
I worked in a heavy equipment shop and serviced 15 heavy haul trucks that pulled 2- 200 ton loads of logs over a 20 mile mountain road every day. I did tire repairs during the day and truck service at night; a 16-20 hour day depending on what needed doing. At night I doubled with another fellow on the service work and he did the bottom and I did the top. We were supposed to check each others work but the last truck of a really long day and week I didn't. Well you can imagine which truck he forgot to put the plug back in and which one I didn't check. I learned several valuable lessons that day at 17 years old. it's one of the reasons for my tagline
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Post by Tonyterner on Jul 31, 2012 15:39:43 GMT -5
Some rocks are just darn messy. I like the pinolith, I've been eyeing some of that up on ebay.
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 31, 2012 16:47:07 GMT -5
Yeah, Frank! Love that on the modeling clay!! LOLOL Squeezing may well be in order because it sure as heck isn't draining very fast!!!!! Well guess who forgot the plug!!!!!! Thank God it's only a 10"er! Thought you all might get a laugh out of that!! It was late, I was tired, it was almost dark & someone was talking to me! I spaced right over it!!!!!!! Donnie - I have pored filtered oil into a bucket that had a drain hole drilled in the bottom, and then stood there dumbly for a few moments trying to figure out how I could have spilled so much. As the "spill" kept growing and spreading away form the bucket, I snapped to what must have happened. Much cussing ensued. Thankfully I had only made about 1/8" diameter drain hole in this bucket. But, ya got a great story to tell!
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