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Post by jakesrocks on Nov 1, 2016 14:42:34 GMT -5
Wait a few & I'll post pics right from the HP catalog.
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Post by jakesrocks on Nov 1, 2016 12:26:51 GMT -5
Interesting home build. Where there's a will, there's a way. I picked this up with a large lot of lapidary equipment a few months back. Brand new but missing the motor & drive wheel.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 25, 2016 18:25:01 GMT -5
Well, missed it yesterday... Happy Belated Birthday, Don. Hope it was a good 'un. LOL, I'm still looking down at the ground for rocks, instead of looking up at grass roots. That's gotta be a good'un.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 24, 2016 18:33:19 GMT -5
Fixin to drill & tap all my joints for zerk fittings. Grease em up every thousand miles or so.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 24, 2016 18:12:52 GMT -5
"You’ll have to let me know if 75 is all its cracked up to be"
LOL, soon as I hit my joints with WD-40 so I can move.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 24, 2016 10:08:10 GMT -5
Thank you Mike. 3/4 of a century & counting.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 23, 2016 14:55:23 GMT -5
If the motor will run but your blade isn't turning, check the set screws on both pulleys. If a set screw has loosened, there's your problem. Since your husband is a car guy, he probably has a tube of non hardening Locktite in his tool box. Have him put a dab of Locktite on the setscrew & tighten it down.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 21, 2016 16:56:10 GMT -5
Happy B-Day Sheri.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 18, 2016 14:54:55 GMT -5
Still hanging in there Donnie. How you been ?
Payment sent.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 18, 2016 12:15:48 GMT -5
Hey Donnie, I'll take the first small FRB. PM me payment instructions. Don
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 17, 2016 16:03:29 GMT -5
Not only beard & mustache, but hair almost to my waist too.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 11, 2016 11:09:17 GMT -5
Bonded professional agate slicer ? Never heard of such a critter, and I've been in this game since the early 50's.
Like Lynn said, let us know where you and the agate are located. Also the measurements of your agate. Chances are that one of our members lives within easy driving of you, and has a saw large enough to handle your agate. If not, I know someone who has access to a really big drag saw, but the saw is located in Oregon.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 7, 2016 14:13:26 GMT -5
You don't want to know some of the names I've used for rocks. Especially those that squash fingers, stub toes or ruin saw blades.
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 3, 2016 18:05:24 GMT -5
When a goodun hits, it does make a certain part of the anatomy pucker tho, doesn't it.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 30, 2016 11:24:35 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 28, 2016 17:19:46 GMT -5
Yes, but an expensive hobby. I can't take money out of the household for it. I need to get it somehow. Well said. The other part is that if I did not sell anything I would have a thousand pounds of tumbled stones and about 300 pendants sitting around the house. Chuck LOL. I solved that problem. I gave several coffee cans full of tumbled stones to the local Girl Scouts. Then I gave my tumblers to a friend. All of the tumbled stones are her problem now.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 28, 2016 16:51:52 GMT -5
Hobby / Money ? Isn't that an oxymoron ? To me a hobby is just that, a hobby. A big old money pit. When you start looking at it as a money making proposition it becomes a business.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 28, 2016 16:40:48 GMT -5
LOL. I'd just finished cleaning some of the rock snot off of the table.
Hey, if you're interested in parting with that motor, shoot me a price. I'd love to have a spare just in case mine finally dies.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 27, 2016 21:40:15 GMT -5
Looks just like the motor on my older 10" Covington. That will be one of the good American made motors. They use Chinese motors now. Excuse the mess. My oldest saw is in bad need of a cleanup.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 19, 2016 14:47:20 GMT -5
At the time I did that, (early 90's) all I had handy was common household epoxy.
Epoxy is much softer than the rock chips. It would undercut in a tumbler.
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