BrotherGump
off to a rocking start
Old fisherman.........new rockhound
Member since January 2006
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Post by BrotherGump on Jan 22, 2006 22:06:14 GMT -5
LOL No But i think I will have a 2 day grace period. If I had a dremel I could just elongate the slots. It would not hurt anything as the unit is pretty tuff metal-wize. There is plenty of meat to work with. And the belt itself is really sturdy. It just streched a little more than I would have thought. It is definetly a keeper  |
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rallyrocks
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since November 2005
Posts: 1,507
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Post by rallyrocks on Feb 17, 2006 14:01:26 GMT -5
Coming back around to the OP's complaint about their grit kit supplied polish....
I kept trying it- thinking maybe I had a bad mix of stone hardness', or perhaps I wasn't cleaning well enough between stages, -maybe not having the proper load of stones and pellets or too much/not enough water- I mean it had to be my fault right? Lortone's been in this business for decades, surely they wouldn't sell an inferior product!- and now having run several different types of stone in different batches continuously since September of last year with not one batch coming out shiney- I finally broke down and bought a pound of Cerium oxide and some tin ox from Pearsons US Lapidary supply in Sacramento.
A batch of jaspers and quartzites that had only taken a matte finish running 2 weeks in lortones sh!tty AlOx is starting to look really nice after just a couple days in the CeOx, - I think I'll just dump what remains of the lortone polish in with their pre-polish 'cause it obviously just isn't up to the task.
I think it's really a shame that they'd sell this crap as "polish" when it simply can't do the job.
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Post by Tweetiepy on Feb 17, 2006 15:08:22 GMT -5
I had the same gripe as well about the products that came with mine.... inferior quality it seems
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Post by LCARS on Feb 17, 2006 15:38:28 GMT -5
Well, at least it's good to know i'm not alone in this...
Don't forget to send your gripe emails to Jim.
If enough of us took the time to actually complain about it, he might actually be convinced that we're right.
As for me, i'm just using what little amount remains of that crappy polish as an intermediate pre-polish stage for mixed rock types.
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rallyrocks
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since November 2005
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Post by rallyrocks on Feb 17, 2006 17:10:03 GMT -5
I just got off the phone with Jim, and I'm still somewhat dissapointed.
He said that the stuff they ship should work for about 80% of the rocks out there, I told him I've been running jaspers, pet wood, agates, quartz and others with 0% success, but that the bag of cerium I got last weekend seems to be doing the trick already.
About all he could say was "sorry", and thats about all I can say back, because I won't be buying any more grit kits from them, ever.
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Post by LCARS on Feb 18, 2006 2:07:55 GMT -5
Hmmm, sounds exactly how MY conversation went with him...  |
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stefan
Cave Dweller 
Member since January 2005
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Post by stefan on Feb 23, 2006 15:03:34 GMT -5
Too bad they don't seem to care enough to want to make this right- I mean I realize that the get this stuff from a vendor- but man you would think they would be interested in keeping the customers happy- There Grit kits are not the cheapest around- and I see them making a nice tidy profit on them- Now they are gonna risk losing that as more and more people get turned off their kits (and possibly tumbling as a whole) Very short sighted IMHO
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