jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 6, 2017 13:05:47 GMT -5
Very promising... watching! Have four 15 lb barrels to go deal with today. SO many pictures to take. Our rock show was this past weekend, lots to photograph from there too. Hate taking pictures! grumble grumbleI took this out of rotary in SiC 30 yesterday. It has been in the vibe short of 24 hours w/AO 80 and wetter than normal Borax. The AO 80 does not waste time in the vibe. I will let it run till tomorrow and then go to 18 hour polish run. Sawn off a 1.5 pound Rio cobble. Smaller rocks take 2 days to get to this shine in vibe using 80. Just saying, out of SiC 30 and about straight to polish. wide gamut
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Post by HankRocks on Mar 6, 2017 14:01:05 GMT -5
How long in the Rotary? or how long was it since ny re-charge?
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Post by melhill1659 on Mar 6, 2017 15:14:47 GMT -5
Not sure how something on crack rolls ...? Don't have (have not had) any issues with how the barrels are rolling though. I have replaced the shafts (front & back) with stock Thumler's shafts. Bought at the Rock Shed. Had problems with the rubber roller sleeves on the shafts disintegrating - cheap Chinese rubber. Bought new roller sleeves and the round barrel guides from rocktumbler.com to replace the cheap Chinese parts on the shafts that came with the blue tumblers, just haven't gotten around to swapping out parts yet. No problems since replacing shafts with stock Thumler's shafts. Barrels have been rolling for around 10 days now with new shafts with no issues and no more rubber sloughing off the rubber rollers. They quit going through belts in a quickness since shaft replacement as well. Wondering if the softer Chinese rubber rollers were actually allowing barrels too much "traction" and putting added resistance on drive pulley belt. Whatever it was, I was going through drive pulley o-rings at about one every two days. Been 10ish days (since I swapped out the shafts) and I have not had to replace the o-ring. WAY good. What is your blue barrel doing? ETA: what RPM are you getting on your blue barrel? Mine just do not run anywhere near the 40 rpm the eBay listing said they do. Still can't complain at that price. My blue on is registering about 34-36 reps per minute. Been going nonstop since last Friday with o-ring and rubbers doing fine but it's not a smooth fast roll rather than a bit jumpy.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 6, 2017 15:20:50 GMT -5
How long in the Rotary? or how long was it since ny re-charge? H I cleaned the bleach layer off with a grinder Henry. Also chamfered the edges. Rolled it 10 days with 4 grit changes with grinding wheel chunks. Short run, but manicured it with the diamond wheel. Really just removed the scratches from the diamond wheel and a bit more.
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Post by captbob on Mar 6, 2017 16:21:28 GMT -5
My blue on is registering about 34-36 reps per minute. Been going nonstop since last Friday with o-ring and rubbers doing fine but it's not a smooth fast roll rather than a bit jumpy. The shelf mine are on shakes with every revolution, but I've got such large rocks in 'em that they thump with each rotation. Plus they are probably way over weight. Not sure about your barrel's jumpiness. Try folding up a towel and setting the tumbler on it. Please report back on that.
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Post by notjustone on Mar 7, 2017 0:26:25 GMT -5
Very promising... watching! Have four 15 lb barrels to go deal with today. SO many pictures to take. Our rock show was this past weekend, lots to photograph from there too. Hate taking pictures! grumble grumbleI took this out of rotary in SiC 30 yesterday. It has been in the vibe short of 24 hours w/AO 80 and wetter than normal Borax. The AO 80 does not waste time in the vibe. I will let it run till tomorrow and then go to 18 hour polish run. Sawn off a 1.5 pound Rio cobble. Smaller rocks take 2 days to get to this shine in vibe using 80. Just saying, out of SiC 30 and about straight to polish. wide gamut does that ao80 trick work in the rotarys as well?
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2017 4:46:03 GMT -5
notjustoneYep. I only use SiC 30(rotary) AO 80(rotary or vibe) AO 14,000(vibe). AO 80 takes 10 days in rotary or 2 days in vibe to prepare for AO 14,000 polish. 10 days in rotary AO 80, 18 hours in vibe AO 14,000 10 days in rotary AO 22, 18 hours in vibe AO 14,000. Big AO made little difference. Have run the AO 80 about 10 times, never fails
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vera
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Post by vera on Mar 8, 2017 22:18:04 GMT -5
James, I love your rocks, but there is no way I would go anywhere near where you go to get them! :-0
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2017 6:01:46 GMT -5
James, I love your rocks, but there is no way I would go anywhere near where you go to get them! :-0 All is well as long as you keep your hands away from these denizens vera. Just make enough disturbance, they will leave. Just do not sneak up on one.
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Post by melhill1659 on Mar 9, 2017 8:26:10 GMT -5
James, I love your rocks, but there is no way I would go anywhere near where you go to get them! :-0 All is well as long as you keep your hands away from these denizens vera. Just make enough disturbance, they will leave. Just do not sneak up on one. That's Huge!!! I'M OUT!!! Something funny comes over me when I get surprise and real scared mixed together. My deepest survival skills come to the surface an it would be like King Kong tearing through the forest!! media.giphy.com/media/k4vvqZG35EA36/giphy.gif
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2017 8:40:39 GMT -5
Bet I haven't seen more than 2 Moccasins if 30+ coral trips melhill1659. May be 2 too many for Mel. Best to go a night with a flashlight to see the neighbors. One time a rock got sucked into my jet ski. I had to swim it upstream 2 miles. Got to the boat ramp at 3AM. I was scared the whole trip. No more jet ski's in the coral rivers !!
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Post by melhill1659 on Mar 9, 2017 9:06:07 GMT -5
I rock hunt on my jet ski too! We have lots of moccasins around here but that one seemed like it swam in from the Amazon!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2017 9:31:31 GMT -5
I rock hunt on my jet ski too! We have lots of moccasins around here but that one seemed like it swam in from the Amazon! The biggest I ever found was on the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. Collecting the odd elongated leaf Pee Dee water lily.(could not find image, too rare). Me and brother were walking along river and he stepped 6 inches from it coiled. I caught it and held it to my chest, from nipple(my) to ground is 5'1" and that's how long it was. Never ever seen a moccasin that big. Never heard of one that big. The head was as big as the flat section of my hand. must have weighed 12 -15 pounds. Fat mama. it probably would have delivered 20-40 times more poison than needed, brother was too lucky. stupid for not watching the ground. He in shorts. This is a nuphar lily. You have probably see tons of them. The Pee Dee version has 12 inch long leaves and only 2 inches wide. Freaky and I sold them very well. they are very prehistoric and have a primitive bloom. Found fossilized.
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Post by vera on Mar 9, 2017 18:16:57 GMT -5
I still think I'd prefer to collect rocks from those areas on my front porch as the mailman goes by.
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Post by melhill1659 on Mar 9, 2017 19:33:53 GMT -5
I rock hunt on my jet ski too! We have lots of moccasins around here but that one seemed like it swam in from the Amazon! The biggest I ever found was on the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. Collecting the odd elongated leaf Pee Dee water lily.(could not find image, too rare). Me and brother were walking along river and he stepped 6 inches from it coiled. I caught it and held it to my chest, from nipple(my) to ground is 5'1" and that's how long it was. Never ever seen a moccasin that big. Never heard of one that big. The head was as big as the flat section of my hand. must have weighed 12 -15 pounds. Fat mama. it probably would have delivered 20-40 times more poison than needed, brother was too lucky. stupid for not watching the ground. He in shorts. This is a nuphar lily. You have probably see tons of them. The Pee Dee version has 12 inch long leaves and only 2 inches wide. Freaky and I sold them very well. they are very prehistoric and have a primitive bloom. Found fossilized. We have lots of lily pads but none with yellow blooms. If I was your brother I would have literally crapped my pants!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2017 20:07:45 GMT -5
melhill1659, it scared me because I saw the whole thing unfold. I had to shut my mouth so he would not stop next to it freaking out.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2017 20:09:30 GMT -5
I still think I'd prefer to collect rocks from those areas on my front porch as the mailman goes by. Ha ha, understandably vera. Many places to collect that are very safe and beautiful. Please keep that in mind.
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Post by vera on Mar 9, 2017 20:13:17 GMT -5
Safe and beautiful is good, but the thing I don't like about tight places that are overgrown with vegetation and full of nasty critters is not having a clear open path to run away from them. ;-)
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2017 20:35:27 GMT -5
Safe and beautiful is good, but the thing I don't like about tight places that are overgrown with vegetation and full of nasty critters is not having a clear open path to run away from them. ;-) Well, water is not a place to make a quick get away. Rather paralyzing. Or a disrupted hornets nest in an area surrounded by briars lol. I have wondered the desert for a month at a time. Coming back to Atlanta I felt the claustrophobia that I have heard westerners speak of. There is a terrain in central Florida called scrub country. It is so thick it may take 15 minutes to travel 100 feet. Get lost in it and one can dehydrate in 2 miles. To avoid the scrub foot/horse traffic follows pine forests no matter how round about the path. Forests are open and referred to as islands. "These signal the edge of Pat’s Island, an island of longleaf pine and sandhill habitat, amid the surrounding sea of the Big Scrub, the world’s largest sand pine scrub forest"
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Post by vera on Mar 9, 2017 20:53:25 GMT -5
Florida is one of the few states I have never found time to get to. I always figured I'd eventually retire there when I can't take the cold anymore, so hopefully I'll get down there sometime in the future. I did not care for Atlanta - too much traffic, but I have a few rocks somewhere around here from some country areas of Georgia. I always pick up a few rocks even on quick trips. ;-)
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