Stuff & Things

I'm getting just as good results with the unscreened in the homemade rotary, ao-80, to ao polish in the vibe as I did with the 4 step process.  the only difference is I'm not running all mohs 7 stuff. the hardest stuff comes out great. 85 to 90 percent of the load on average comes out of polish looking finished. the other 10 to 15 percent Ive been setting aside till I get enough to fill my ar-12 barrel. mostly slag glass which I found polishes better in the rotary than the vibe, but unfortunately is about the only thing I find locally which is even hard enough to take a  polish.

thanks for the offer james but I don't really need the sic 500. like you I'm cutting out the excessive cleanouts. 

I'm not sure if my unscreened sic is cutting faster or not than the 30 grit (never loaded a barrel with each with new rough to do a head to head compairison). but its free grit and seems to be working well.  when I went from the sic 30ish stuff to the unscreened I also went to the vibe and using more broken rough  and doing less rounding and more just passing it through when the edges were knocked off and pit free for a different look.  at the same time I added 2 more coarse barrels and am pulling 10 lbs out of coarse a week compared to the 3lbs I was sending through to polish to the small rotaries. I changed to many variables at once to get a good comparison.