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Post by metalsmith on May 29, 2017 13:42:19 GMT -5
Holy Shite! captbob, I was thinking the same thing- both printed and edited. Good Lord. Don't want Adam in a foxhole with me. I've seen some guys like this before. Sometimes they make the most inspiring of people. I'm watching with interest.
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Post by metalsmith on May 29, 2017 11:12:51 GMT -5
My barrels stay on perpetual tumble. I tumble a lot of petrified wood. For me to open up a QT 12 barrel every few days is not an option. That will work for a lot of people, but I have been tumbling since 2010. Everyone has a different way in their methods. I just do clean outs. But it may be an option for Jolene . Not intended to be snarky. I keep 4 barrels running at a time. No offence taken. I'm sure you're aware of the other threads discussing the speed of breakdown of course SiC to finer grades... so without adding further coarse SiC you're effectively moving to the intermediate stage before the required rounding is achieved - then grinding for an age in order to round the rocks. Just mho.
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Post by metalsmith on May 29, 2017 8:10:37 GMT -5
The first stage for me is always the longest. It really tries your patience for sure. Some of mine tumble in course for months. On your rocks not all of them may be ready in a week or 2. Try adding some coarse SiC every few days; how much depends on the size of your tumbler.
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Post by metalsmith on May 29, 2017 8:04:12 GMT -5
Hi Everyone! I would love some help identifying the rough rocks, I labelled the few I thought I knew already but check them out and let me know what you think. 1. Quartz 2. Agate 3. Sodalite 4. Rose Quartz 5. Zebra Jasper 6. Quartz (agate) 7. Looks like agate (and probably better angles to photo) 8. Dalmatian Stone 9. Crazy Lace Agate 10. Looks like a variation on 13 (whatever it is) 11. Sodalite 12. Blue chalcedony (guessing) 13. Looks like a variation on 10 (whatever it is) 14. Breccia; def. not conglomerate 15. Spotted Jasper 16. LHS = Crazy Lace RHS maybe = rhyolite 17. Agate 18. Granite - I don't think so; maybe semiprecious pink opal 19. Possibly Zebra Jasper (not sure if red is found in that) Some of these are uncertain; others may be quite generic; other RTH members may be able to add locations if they know them.
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Post by metalsmith on May 26, 2017 0:13:21 GMT -5
But what if it's The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed?! Schroedinger's rock
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Post by metalsmith on May 26, 2017 0:09:02 GMT -5
I recently picked up a 4 wheel 8" Lortone Beaver. The recommendation was for a 1/3 hp motor, which I found for 1/2 price on new in really good condition
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 23:50:06 GMT -5
I should be able to get in this month, packed up most of my stuff. I'm not sure from that whether to expect an entry. Part says 'yes' part suggests 'no'. Which is it to be???
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 23:45:27 GMT -5
I don't think this is any good reason to stay away from the grinder. You just need to know what you're getting into, which your post helps to clarify. Maybe the grinder is really good. Maybe the after-sales service is as good (/bad) as the pre-sales.
Some folk are just plain technical and this demonstrates why they need a sales lead!
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 11:37:17 GMT -5
A warm welcome to RTH from Yorkshire, England Thank you! I lived in Coventry ... I miss England! But not Coventry? he he
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 1:45:38 GMT -5
Welcome to RTH from Yorkshire, England
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 1:41:24 GMT -5
A warm welcome to RTH from Yorkshire, England
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 1:35:59 GMT -5
Stunning... the rock matches the cut beautifully!
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 1:11:26 GMT -5
Looks like it was a nice day for a walk! : ) Haha - yeah it should have been more of a run. Looking back I think we were speed and mountain fit and just went off too fast. The fact that we were up with the half-marathoners (til they turned off) tells me this. There were still some guys n gals in front of us so I thought we were ok, but the fact is that there are some super fit folk out there. Ingleborough forms one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks. The record for running all three in a 24 mile loop is just 2 hours 46. And then of course there is Iron Joss
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Post by metalsmith on May 25, 2017 0:53:34 GMT -5
When I was in my late teens I joined the Territorial Army. A piece of bridge and I had an argument and I lost. I went from running 70 - 100 miles per week, 4-minute miles, the international squad, training with and kicking special forces butt on the mountains back to zero. The mainstream doctors were surprised that the backwater hospital I stayed at hadn't removed my leg. It was a mess and I was told it was unlikely that I would ever walk again - and certainly never run.
The doctor clearly liked jigsaw puzzles. Despite an almost complete lack of the ability to speak English he put me back together. I was walking of sorts within six months. I had another two operations and given more broken bones to reset; finally they cut my scars off.
It took me fifteen years to run again; nineteen years to run a marathon and on the twentieth anniversary I ran the mountain marathon I had done back with the TA - just as fast. I've now run four mountain and two road marathons in eight years. Not bad counting in a road cycle crash and three years of chronic pain.
I worked out that all those folk with disabilities didn't have a choice in the matter; that they did everything we did despite an additional burden and grew admiration for their efforts. Now if I see someone I can help - if I can then I offer to do so... though I know they would do it without me anyway.
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Post by metalsmith on May 24, 2017 14:40:39 GMT -5
I'm trying to resist the temptation for a few more days, but I m-i-g-h-t just have to check it tonight to see what's been happening in there. Sand ... (just kidding)
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Post by metalsmith on May 24, 2017 14:35:26 GMT -5
Ps. The Rhodonite is lovely; the parrot wing is wonderful and the wingate sings. The Sonoron is my favourite too.
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Post by metalsmith on May 24, 2017 14:34:13 GMT -5
Oh my! How disappointing... I don't know how you'll come back from this one.
Send the ones you don't like for International Disposal and I'll see them interred in the Selafield Nuclear Waste Repository (or similar)...
Oh well, tomorrow's another day!
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Post by metalsmith on May 24, 2017 13:18:25 GMT -5
That's great, it sounds like you had a good time too. I would not even have tried it being as I am way out of shape and don't run at all (well unless there are good rocks to be had but even then I just walk really fast...lol). I'm sure you'd beat me to a really good rock though!
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Post by metalsmith on May 24, 2017 13:17:18 GMT -5
Thanks for all your interest everyone.
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Post by metalsmith on May 24, 2017 13:16:18 GMT -5
Only a couple of bits and pieces.
On my way home from the office, I marvelled at the number of people who could walk past a guy struggling, trying to push his wheelchair up a hill. I don't doubt that he would have done it, but I asked him if he wanted a push and he agreed. On the way I introduced myself... He worked in an office just around the corner from mine and not far from the station - which was all uphill. I took him to where he wanted to go. After that I bumped into him quite frequently, tho it was never a regular thing.
A year or so (could have been 2 with my memory) I was on holiday in France when I helped an Irish paraplegic learn to shoot recurve archery. I'm training to be a coach at the moment.
Finally I bumped into a chap from work outside the office; not literally. He is blind and we walked and talked which was a little difficult, as I went a little in front and tried to be an obstruction to the guys'n'girls coming the other way with their heads down in their phones. I was trying to stop a collision, but I wasn't entirely successful. At the station, he thought he would miss his train, so I got him to hold my arm and quickly guided him through the turnstiles. His train was leaving imminently so I tried to help him to hurry. We got faster and faster with him holding onto my arm and gaining in confidence as we sped up. Finally we were running headlong down the platform, him with his white stick waving uncontrollably - he said it had been years since he'd run. That was so funny! And he made the train.
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