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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 13, 2016 11:54:46 GMT -5
Those old saws were built like a tank. If the bearings are good, and the vice rides smooth on the rails, and the price is right I'd say go for it.
Is that a power feed ? If so, make sure the power feed works. Parts for those old power feeds can be nearly impossible to find, and expensive to have made in a machine shop.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 12, 2016 13:21:50 GMT -5
But Jalapenos are ooooh so good.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 10, 2016 11:17:09 GMT -5
Happy B-Day Tony.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 9, 2016 15:38:48 GMT -5
Mel, hot weather ain't the only thing that effects Covington power feeds. Unless they've redesigned the cover over the power re my suggestion, in cold weather the cover on the power feed shrinks just enough to bind the motor. I had to take the cover off of my power feed so I could do cold weather cutting. By removing the cover it also allows more air over the motor in hot weather.
Strangely enough, I have an older 10" Covington with power feed which has never caused a problem. Could be the early American made motor versus the cheap Chinese motor they now use. Or maybe it's the early cast aluminum cover versus the cheap sheet metal cover they use now.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 7, 2016 22:47:43 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 7, 2016 15:15:06 GMT -5
Wonder if the gun was one of those Obama freebies given to one of his loyal supporters ?
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 7, 2016 10:38:09 GMT -5
Why would anyone want to slab that ? It's beautiful just as it is. Maybe a light oiling & that could sit in my display cabinet with a label.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 6, 2016 22:15:46 GMT -5
In the second pic, that appears to be a shark tooth.
The Moroccans are getting quite good at reconstructing fossils. One way to tell if you have an original fossil is to heat a sewing pin to red hot & stick it into the back side. If you get the smell of burning plastic, it's a reconstruction using epoxy mixed with local sand & fossil bits.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 6, 2016 9:41:31 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 5, 2016 12:30:44 GMT -5
Welcome aboard John, from an old goat in South Dakota.
Damn this is a small world. Just yesterday I ordered a set of leather working tools from a guy in New Zealand.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 5, 2016 12:26:32 GMT -5
Looks like the wide end of a piece of horn coral to me. Maybe fossilman / Mike will have some ideas.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 4, 2016 11:55:56 GMT -5
We just moved to Indiana in the Ohio River Bluffs near Cincinati. Are you in the area jake? I'm finding similar stuff here? LOL, My parents moved me away from Ohio way back in 1948. The area where I was a young boy is now covered in asphalt & shopping malls.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 4, 2016 0:29:01 GMT -5
If you happen upon any trilobites, keep me in mind. I collect them.
Since moving to South Dakota, while screening rocks out of new flower beds, I've found 4 very crudely made early arrow heads, and a couple small pieces of coral which were probably dropped here by the last ice age.
Don
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 3, 2016 23:22:41 GMT -5
Very nice death plate. If you buy a piece of 1/8" hardware cloth & build a wooden frame for it, you should be able to screen out bunches of loose crinoid pieces from the soil downhill from where you found that piece. When I was a kid in N.E. Ohio, we used to pick up pockets full in the fields around us.
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Post by jakesrocks on Mar 3, 2016 18:08:15 GMT -5
Crinoids in limestone will be very soft. You could attempt to do them in a vibratory tumbler, starting with something like 300 grit & checking progress every day. Why not save that pie plate sized death plate as a specimen ? Surely there are many crinoid pieces which have weathered out of the limestone and could be easily picked up.
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 28, 2016 23:19:45 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 27, 2016 21:28:50 GMT -5
Dang Mel, wish it would thaw out around here. Still got that box full that I got from the kids. Chompin at the bit to get them cut.
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 26, 2016 14:11:59 GMT -5
Lee, if you plan to visit S.W. South Dakota, give me a shout. I won't be able to make it out, but I can hook you up with a couple folks that live around Rapid City, and know all of the hot Fairburn agate spots.
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 25, 2016 13:43:10 GMT -5
I was at the Pala mine once way back in the 50's, when it was called the Stuart Lithia Mine. It was a Jr. High rock club field trip before the mine became commercialized. We all had a great time, and everyone came home with a few small specimens of tourmaline in matrix. The then owner of the mine even opened the big steel doors to the mine & allowed us to go a short distance into the mine.
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 25, 2016 11:08:26 GMT -5
Watch the ground as you're walking out to the screening piles. Some kid found a beer can sized tourmaline laying on the surface a few years back.
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