Mark K
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Post by Mark K on May 4, 2024 12:50:57 GMT -5
Was this your post or do you recognize it? Capture by mrk525, on Flickr
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Post by Mark K on May 3, 2024 19:59:28 GMT -5
The other one is rolling in the cups as you read this. It is pretty close to done with the cups. Then I go to the 6, yes 6 preforms I turned from cylinders into round balls ready for the cups today. I am very tired after all of that and might only hit a couple of them tonight.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 22:35:19 GMT -5
It is done with the rough grind. Maybe tomorrow the other one will end up on the cups.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 21:18:58 GMT -5
Since their crappy pumps are not intended to be used on oil, only water, I replaced my weak-assed HP pump with one with some cojones. I put an inline valve on the system and it seems to be working pretty well so far. I wish HP would just replace those cheap chinese pos with something that works properly for more than a week.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 21:11:40 GMT -5
He is buying most if not all of them.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 21:09:58 GMT -5
My rough cups don't cut very fast once it is to the point it is now. The dots are almost gone now and I will let it go longer so the bad spots shrinks or maybe even goes away. Once the ball is out of the rough grind, it will probably go into the bin of rough ground forms and wait its turn as the next one goes on the rough grind, and it is a crazy lace too.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 18:42:56 GMT -5
So far so good.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 17:06:07 GMT -5
It is close to done with the iron cups.
I have another CL in the saw and I screwed up the measurements. I cut the first rotation too big so now I have to go back around and recut it all 12 times. The good news is that it will result in 12 small slabs that have a tiny bevel on the sides and will look cool. They would have been part of the bigger, less cool looking first round scraps so at least I have that going for me. If I am going to screw up, that is how I want to do it.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 16:14:28 GMT -5
Yep. It lets me see the flats much easier while it is rolling.
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 15:31:20 GMT -5
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Post by Mark K on May 1, 2024 14:39:48 GMT -5
Just the switch.
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Post by Mark K on Apr 30, 2024 19:08:31 GMT -5
Thought "Hmm, that sounded like an electrical pop. Looked around and didn't see the mystical blue smoke. OK. Keep on keeping on. Turn the saw on and when it is done, I hit the switch and got a handful of the mystical blue smoke. And a big flash. The switch on the saw went to hell in a most spectacular manner. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to get a switch. I needed to slow down a little any way.
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Post by Mark K on Apr 30, 2024 15:29:54 GMT -5
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Post by Mark K on Apr 29, 2024 21:39:57 GMT -5
MN has quartsite, but I have never seen it around this area. The western part of the state has mines for it apparently. That would be the MN/SD area.
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Post by Mark K on Apr 29, 2024 18:21:34 GMT -5
Could be, but I have never seen quartzite in our part of the state.
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Post by Mark K on Apr 29, 2024 14:52:24 GMT -5
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Post by Mark K on Apr 28, 2024 13:55:27 GMT -5
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Post by Mark K on Apr 28, 2024 13:38:13 GMT -5
Yeah. I agree. But the picks work on everything else. I don't get it.
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Post by Mark K on Apr 28, 2024 11:30:46 GMT -5
I don't know. It cuts fine and looks just like normal breciated Burro, but the pick would not scratch it.
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Post by Mark K on Apr 28, 2024 0:04:02 GMT -5
I just tested the hardness and the main material is harder than the #9 picks in the test kit. This could be interesting.
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