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Post by captbob on Sept 18, 2019 10:25:35 GMT -5
What is the model number? Or maybe find one with Google and post a link so we can see which machine you got.
If it is your only machine, you might consider a coarse wheel (diamond or silicon carbide depends on your budget) on one side and an expandable rubber drum/wheel on the side you can get to easily.
With the rubber drum, you can then change the sanding/polishing belts as needed for different grit steps.
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Post by captbob on Sept 14, 2019 8:36:44 GMT -5
*sigh*
really?
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Post by captbob on Sept 10, 2019 10:23:11 GMT -5
Shrinkwood may be a really good guess. But I've never seen a 8 to 10 pound chunk of that before. Where is Mel Sabre52 ?? Gonna have to disagree with tabu tabu A few more pictures from other angles and not just the face sure would help. |
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Post by captbob on Sept 9, 2019 7:26:36 GMT -5
For Jean because I appreciate reading her jokes.
There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, “Now listen, when I die I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I want to take all my money to the afterlife.”
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him. Well, one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to their best friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, “Wait a minute!”
She had a shoebox with her. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket and rolled it away. Her friend said, “I hope you weren’t crazy enough to put all that money in there with that stingy old man.” She said, “Yes, I promised. I’m a good Christian, I can’t lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him.”
“You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?”
“I sure did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check.”
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Post by captbob on Sept 6, 2019 11:53:14 GMT -5
As an aside - captbob , with your months long, sometimes years long, periods of being AWOL, I didn't think you would ever reach 8000 posts. Congrats! (More time to dispose of the bodies, hysterical!) I didn't even notice. Thanks! I guess I'm just a man of few words  Do all those 000s make my butt look fat? |
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Post by captbob on Sept 6, 2019 10:42:46 GMT -5
Sure, you can shoot someone, but do you really want to kill someone? Not only is it messy, but in an emergency, there will be no police and victims have friends. Often. No police means more time to dispose of the body/bodies! Get one of the small Honda i2000 generators. VERY quiet and efficient. Nice to be able to run the 'fridge/freezer(s) and TV/computer. The big honkin' construction generators are noisy as all get out, guzzle gas and are not designed to run sensitive electronics and appliances, like the Honda pure sine wave units. Hope the seaward path continues and we have seen the last of this round. |
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Post by captbob on Sept 6, 2019 10:32:57 GMT -5
There’s a lot of amygdaloidal basalt in the U.P., both in mine tailings and on the beaches, but I don’t think most of it is as nice rock. I was under the impression that most basalt does not shine up well, but this seemed to. Anyone have much experience working with basalt?Dallasite seems similar. Have tumbled a bunch of that and a high quality shine is pretty easy to achieve.
I know Chuck has cabbed some which I think were very nice.
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Post by captbob on Aug 27, 2019 13:32:09 GMT -5
I'll venture a guess and say wave dolomite. Some times called rolling hills dolomite. Sometimes called Oaxaca Picture rock. From Mexico.
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Post by captbob on Aug 21, 2019 15:33:21 GMT -5
Take out a 2nd mortgage on your house and send her to Florida.  Tease! What tease? You can have every rock (except one) and lapidary machine I own for 750k
(RTH discount - I would be losing $ there)
I'll even deliver them!  (lower 48 States only)
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Post by captbob on Aug 21, 2019 10:16:00 GMT -5
Take out a 2nd mortgage on your house and send her to Florida. |
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Post by captbob on Aug 20, 2019 10:58:03 GMT -5
I have a large selection of rough and thousands of slabs I am willing to part with. How far is that from Florida...? |
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Post by captbob on Aug 18, 2019 13:11:16 GMT -5
Shoulda parked your car (the cheapest one!) on top of the geyser. But who thinks like that at the time.
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Post by captbob on Aug 18, 2019 10:24:44 GMT -5
Holy cow! There are easier ways to clean the windows ya know. Why 4-6 weeks? Was there water damage inside?
Best of luck getting life back to normal ASAP
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Post by captbob on Aug 17, 2019 17:17:01 GMT -5
You sure that first one doesn't say Picture wood? (not that I would know what that is either!)
Almost looks more like Binghamite than wood.
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Post by captbob on Aug 17, 2019 16:40:24 GMT -5
Nice haul o' crabs! Sounds like you made out well. Yummy critters!
We catch stone crabs down here in the winter. Season is mid Oct to mid May, but you want the water to be cold(er) so we wait for Jan. Feb. and March.
You go to Graves Mt. for the iridescent hematite or something else?
How is the hematite hounding there? Pretty slim now or can you still find GOOD specimens if you are willing to do the work (dig for 'em!)?
Are there good hounding spots the public can get to or is it a matter of knowing the right private land owners?
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Post by captbob on Aug 17, 2019 15:53:36 GMT -5
Another question that comes to mind (mine anyway!) ...
I'm no physics major or mechanical engineer, but it would SEEM to me that turning those heavier toothed sprockets and turning that chain would be more work for that little motor than the original parts.
So would the motor have to work harder, would it run hotter, would that (if so) shorten the motor life?
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Post by captbob on Aug 17, 2019 12:25:52 GMT -5
uh............. no thanks. It's a rainy slow day today, so I won't ask for that half hour of my life back as the videos were interesting/entertaining. But... (the list is long!) That chain drive unit seemed really noisy to me. Anyone else think so? In all the years I have been using Thumbler's Model B units, I have never had a belt pulley crack or "waller out" and spin on the shaft. The after market belts he showed were hollow. I don't understand using rubber tubing to make a belt. (?) I found a replacement belt online for much less cost that the original replacement belts that I buy in bulk from the Rock Shed, But they failed to meet up to my expectations. So I just bite the bullet and buy a dozen of the proper belts at a time. So, towards the end of the 2nd video he shows a cost sheet breakdown with like 50 bucks for the chain drive modification. Figuring that all the time it took to locate and round up all the new pieces and to actually modify the unit, I am adding another 50 bucks for time and efforts. That's far less than my time is actually worth to me even if I'm doing nothing at all! So... $100 to switch from the original belt to the chain drive. I get around 6 months from an original (or Rock Shed) belt (@ $4.50 each) For 100 bucks I can get 22 belts. Call it 20 w/ the tax added. At 6 months per belt, I can run that tumbler (belt replacement wise) for 10 years for less than the chain replacement hoopla. And my machines are quieter. Interesting video and I appreciate the MacGyvering and effort, but I will pass. |
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Post by captbob on Aug 15, 2019 11:48:48 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Aug 12, 2019 13:12:14 GMT -5
Wonder if ya roughed up the rods a bit if that spray on bed liner stuff would work.
Be easy enough to touch up the rods if it chipped off, but not worth the effort if it wouldn't last months before needing to be resprayed.
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Post by captbob on Aug 11, 2019 15:57:52 GMT -5
Good to see another Floridian join in. We are pretty outnumbered here.
Welcome from St. Pete
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