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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 12:15:09 GMT -5
I'm roughing this one out to.finish in class tonight. Carnation Stone. A porphyry.  |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jun 6, 2017 12:23:13 GMT -5
Very cool. Would love to see more sphere making posts on here. Intriguing stuff for those of us that have never seen it in person.
Chuck
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 12:31:36 GMT -5
When my phone charges I'll make a short video.
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Post by captbob on Jun 6, 2017 12:51:53 GMT -5
I'd kill for the space for a sphere machine. (where the noise wouldn't disturb the wife unit) Should anyone be thinking ... oh just make some room. You simply can't understand!  |
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Post by lookatthat on Jun 6, 2017 12:53:59 GMT -5
That's crazy! That looks so cool!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 13:52:25 GMT -5
I'd kill for the space for a sphere machine. (where the noise wouldn't disturb the wife unit) Should anyone be thinking ... oh just make some room. You simply can't understand! It ain't that loud. And daytime city code regulations say a certain amount of noise is allowable. Use that as leverage... Lol jeannie is traveling this weekend. I plan to organise and make room in the workshop (garage). Maybe even set up the second sphere machine. Most important, I will park my car back in the garage. Where the heck does someone store 2 piece of 6" pvc pipe that are 10' long? |
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Post by captbob on Jun 6, 2017 14:03:36 GMT -5
Where the heck does someone store 2 piece of 6" pvc pipe that are 10' long? On the side of a wall or fence. Get some hooks like folks use to hang bikes to store them or better (cheaper) yet, make your own holders out of wood and mount to the back side of your garage. HD probably has some shelf hanger/supports/brackets that would work. |
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Post by captbob on Jun 6, 2017 14:18:06 GMT -5
I'd kill for the space for a sphere machine. (where the noise wouldn't disturb the wife unit) It ain't that loud. I had four 15 lb tumblers running on a shelf out on my screened in back porch. They were outside the window of the room where the boss lady does her meditation/yoga crap in the morning before I get up. I now have three 15 lb tumblers running in MY BATHROOM. And only two left running out on the porch. Tumblers bothered her. No way a sphere machine is gonna fly out there. She studies in that room in the evening and on weekends. Guess if I only used it when she is at work.... hmmm How dirty do these things make the nearby surrounding area? < wandering off to eyeball the porch again > need that damn house with the 4 car garage in the backyard... which BTW, sold for 35k over our offer I woulda paid that, wife unit said no - too high. *sigh* |
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Post by oregon on Jun 6, 2017 15:20:12 GMT -5
I'm roughing this one out to.finish in class tonight. Carnation Stone. A porphyry. at the point of needing grinding cups for mine, any reasonable/cheap ways to get/make diamond cups for the corse grind? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 15:23:44 GMT -5
I'm roughing this one out to.finish in class tonight. Carnation Stone. A porphyry. at the point of needing grinding cups for mine, any reasonable/cheap ways to get/make diamond cups for the corse grind? I bought mine from avanta tools |
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Post by captbob on Jun 6, 2017 15:37:58 GMT -5
I've seen welding (brazing?) rods with diamond in them and the cups are made or renewed with fresh diamonds using these rods by doing a bead around the lip of the cups. ETA: Diamond Brazing Rods user.xmission.com/~ranthon/lapidary.htm |
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Post by coloradocliff on Jun 6, 2017 15:46:40 GMT -5
I'd kill for the space for a sphere machine. (where the noise wouldn't disturb the wife unit) Should anyone be thinking ... oh just make some room. You simply can't understand! Yep. We understand. After we just made some room.. about 10 time and are out in the yard.. Then its time to build or move. The neighbors hate shipping containers. grin |
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Post by coloradocliff on Jun 6, 2017 15:48:09 GMT -5
I've seen welding (brazing?) rods with diamond in them and the cups are made or renewed with fresh diamonds using these rods by doing a bead around the lip of the cups. ETA: Diamond Brazing Rods user.xmission.com/~ranthon/lapidary.htmHella deal Bob, Never imagined that was possible. Welding on diamonds. |
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Post by captbob on Jun 6, 2017 15:53:44 GMT -5
The neighbors hate shipping containers. grin Thought about burying one in the FRONT yard for a shop. No room in back yard since I built the pool for the dogs. Would have to take down two oak trees to do so. Wife (see... it's ALWAYS her nixing my ideas!!) frowned on my plan. Had all the details figured out too! Needless to say, I don't have a shipping container buried in my front yard. *sigh* |
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Post by captbob on Jun 6, 2017 15:57:08 GMT -5
Hella deal Bob, Never imagined that was possible. Welding on diamonds. Ever priced grinding cups? Buy the sphere machine and ya still gotta spend big bucks on the grinding cups. Homemade ain't as pretty, but they seem to work. More on interwebs on the subject for those that care to search. Amazing what ya can find on the web and youtube. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 16:48:16 GMT -5
Hella deal Bob, Never imagined that was possible. Welding on diamonds. Ever priced grinding cups? Buy the sphere machine and ya still gotta spend big bucks on the grinding cups. Homemade ain't as pretty, but they seem to work. More on interwebs on the subject for those that care to search. Amazing what ya can find on the web and youtube. I made my own diamond brazing rod once. 100 grit cut very slowly and left a prepolish finish. If I did it again i would use 30 grit diamond. |
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Post by oregon on Jun 6, 2017 17:11:45 GMT -5
hp comments aside: ... gotta scour aliexpress.
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Post by oregon on Jun 6, 2017 18:10:34 GMT -5
Those don't actually look like too bad a price, $46 for 3 inch cores... hmmm Are they grinding fast enough? holding up well? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 18:15:08 GMT -5
Those don't actually look like too bad a price, $46 for 3 inch cores... hmmm Are they grinding fast enough? holding up well? Grinding fast and holding up well. I use the black ones. They don't do well with agate or jasper, but anything else (and I mean anything) cuts fast and clean. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2017 18:27:50 GMT -5
When my phone charges I'll make a short video. The ball is ready to move on. I forgot to video! sorry everyone |
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