Post by stardiamond on Mar 23, 2022 15:58:59 GMT -5
My first machine had a big leather pad on the end and was told to use tin oxide. It only had two hard wheels and the sanding was done with a lapidary belt sander. A lot of undercutting on some material so I decided to go all diamond with a Genie.
100k diamond paste does a good job on most of the material I work on. I wasn't happy with the polish on some stones probably because I need to add more paste to the canvas pad. I decided to try tin oxide on some of the stones and there was improvement. I added paste to the canvas pad and that solved most of the problem.
A couple of the sites I visited mentioned Zam so I bought a tube from Amazon. I thought I would make a slurry with it and bought some lambs wool covers to put over an old canvas end lap pad. The Zam arrived and it was a stick that needed to have shavings taken off of it. I put them in some water and they just floated. I dumped the contents into a soft microfiber cloth and used a cab to work it in. It did a nice job on some Lucin variscite cabs, an improvement over what I had with the diamond paste. The crandallite cabs already had a good polish with diamond paste and the Zam made no significant improvement. The same with other polished agates and jaspers.
One comment I saw about Zam was the person liked it so much they were dumping diamond paste. I haven't found any info about using Zam on an end polisher, so I'm keep using diamond and have another tool available.
100k diamond paste does a good job on most of the material I work on. I wasn't happy with the polish on some stones probably because I need to add more paste to the canvas pad. I decided to try tin oxide on some of the stones and there was improvement. I added paste to the canvas pad and that solved most of the problem.
A couple of the sites I visited mentioned Zam so I bought a tube from Amazon. I thought I would make a slurry with it and bought some lambs wool covers to put over an old canvas end lap pad. The Zam arrived and it was a stick that needed to have shavings taken off of it. I put them in some water and they just floated. I dumped the contents into a soft microfiber cloth and used a cab to work it in. It did a nice job on some Lucin variscite cabs, an improvement over what I had with the diamond paste. The crandallite cabs already had a good polish with diamond paste and the Zam made no significant improvement. The same with other polished agates and jaspers.
One comment I saw about Zam was the person liked it so much they were dumping diamond paste. I haven't found any info about using Zam on an end polisher, so I'm keep using diamond and have another tool available.
