gemfreak95
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by gemfreak95 on Nov 8, 2021 12:44:57 GMT -5
Backstory: my best friend recently got his own place and left a box of ceramic and Corelle dishes at my house. He doesn't want them, and I was going to garage sale them, but I dropped the box and many of them broke. Would it be worth trying to repurpose them as filler, or should I just throw them out? My main concern would be in ruining a batch of rock, but also that the glazes and paints might make toxic tumbling sludge. I reeeeally don't want to poison myself for the hobby!
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hypodactylus
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Post by hypodactylus on Nov 8, 2021 13:03:24 GMT -5
I have heard of people tumbling broken ceramic dishes; I don't really see a problem.
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CLErocks
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Post by CLErocks on Nov 8, 2021 13:05:09 GMT -5
I'm a TOTAL newbie here...so just thoughts to share. The corelle seems like it would be MUCH "scratch-ier" than regular ceramic. More likely to cause damage. Considering the age of the plates, and where they were made...in THEORY, if it's safe to eat/cook on, it wouldn't be toxic. Also assuming that the EPA, or whoever decides how much cancerous stuff we can eat before it's too much, has had long enough to actually TEST things out or just takes the manufactures word for it. 🤷🏻♀️ It would be interesting to test it out! I'd try it on some not so special rocks. It'd be interesting if someone else has already tried this!
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gemfreak95
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by gemfreak95 on Nov 8, 2021 13:53:26 GMT -5
I'm a TOTAL newbie here...so just thoughts to share. The corelle seems like it would be MUCH "scratch-ier" than regular ceramic. More likely to cause damage. Considering the age of the plates, and where they were made...in THEORY, if it's safe to eat/cook on, it wouldn't be toxic. Also assuming that the EPA, or whoever decides how much cancerous stuff we can eat before it's too much, has had long enough to actually TEST things out or just takes the manufactures word for it. 🤷🏻♀️ It would be interesting to test it out! I'd try it on some not so special rocks. It'd be interesting if someone else has already tried this! That's *kinda* what I figured, but the back of my mind was going, "It's one thing to eat off of it, it's another to grind it up and let it evaporate." Looking at it again, the Corelle might not be worth it just because of how thin it is. I've got a box of quartz fragments I was also saving to turn into filler, so no great loss if they get paint stained or whatever.
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Post by rmf on Nov 8, 2021 20:00:42 GMT -5
I have heard of people tumbling broken ceramic dishes; I don't really see a problem. Yep I have used them. Had a Jeweler that wanted some cabs cut from broken dishes. They had nice logos on some and roses on others. Cut out the cabs for him to mount and I got the scraps to play with. Works great. It is ceramic.
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Post by Mel on Nov 15, 2021 10:47:38 GMT -5
Use older, heavy ceramic plates/bowls/cups, don't use that Corel stuff (you know the kind that everyone and their grandma has? It's white with green or blue flowers around the edges...). It breaks into shards, not "chunks". It's also not something you want to cut yourself on... Dollar store plates or thrift store plates should work just fine!
I've also heard of people using broken up ceramic tiles, and smashed up toilet tank lids as media too. Nothing wrong with using what you have available. Just run it in coarse grit awhile until it rounds off the edges and carry on.
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Post by victor1941 on Nov 15, 2021 11:24:38 GMT -5
Corelle is made from layers of bonded glass.
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gemfreak95
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Post by gemfreak95 on Nov 17, 2021 16:16:10 GMT -5
I went ahead and broke up most of what I have, which is now running in 60/90. The mugs went pretty well, and the pieces of handle should last a good while. The one chipped Corelle plate I tried didn't break so much as it exploded into a million needles of glass. Definitely NOT worth it!!
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