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Post by nowyo on Feb 25, 2020 15:57:04 GMT -5
Try pulling the motor out. Dip a toothpick in oil and just touch it to the motor shaft at the "bearing". Sometimes taking the motor apart and cleaning up the dust from the belt wear and stuff helps.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 9, 2020 17:05:02 GMT -5
Those are pretty. I like what appears to be Dendrites in #2. Difficult to get a rock shine on some of those shapes you got there, but I think they all turned out awesome. Probably had a good variety of sized chunks of ceramic media to be able to cover all of the concave surfaces. I have trouble with concave ones.Thanks. That #2 stone looks a lot better in person. Never have used ceramics, just various sized stones. Don't do much shaping either, smash them up and toss them in. What comes out is what comes out. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 5, 2020 7:53:38 GMT -5
nice. You've done a great job training your wife which rocks to look for and it appears she can also lift the big ones. Oh, she's pretty good at finding things. When we go out I cover more ground and gt more rocks, but invariably she gets the nicest one.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 3, 2020 10:26:24 GMT -5
Thanks all. We find stuff like that, but that is really about the biggest/nicest yet. They've been mining copper here for 100 years so there is interesting stuff scattered around.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 2, 2020 5:28:44 GMT -5
Right before it started snowing back around Thanksgiving Cyndi was helping with trash pickup around town. Found this on the side of the road and brought it home.
Dry
Wet
And yeah, that's a five gallon bucket it's sitting on. Seems to be solid, too.
Guess i could break it up and throw it in the tumbler.
Just kidding. Was told I can't slab it yet.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 2, 2020 5:17:59 GMT -5
Well @the Rock good luck with that. News nobody wants to get.
We'll be heading down this year again, probably get there the 9th or 10th. Looking forward to seeing everyone again and som new ones it sounds like.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 2, 2020 5:08:34 GMT -5
Finished up a batch in December, grabbed a few pics. These are all from rocks we collected her in Nevada this year. Nothing real exotic, but I kinda like them.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jan 2, 2020 5:00:03 GMT -5
Great job as always.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Dec 12, 2019 9:54:32 GMT -5
The reptile heating pads are more heat per square inch than the ones used for seed starting. Just an FYI catmandewe , nowyo Interesting. I was thinking of the magnetic block heaters like one would use on diesel engines for the saw. As for the heating pads, I have one of the seed starting pads, and last week dragged my old homemade tumbler setup (6" PVC barrels and stuff) out of the pile of crap in the garage. Thought about enclosing it and putting the pad in their. Wouldn't have to be hot, just keep it from freezing. Probably won't be able to get to it until after Christmas. The reptile pad is another option.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Dec 9, 2019 6:27:23 GMT -5
Just saw this post. I'm going to have to agree with Scott, without actually looking at the rocks. Have some similar stuff out in the yard, found in shear zone associated with detachment faults. Nevada has multiple detachments, typically associated with metamorphic core complexes.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Dec 9, 2019 5:15:33 GMT -5
I've thought about doing that but haven't gotten it done. Sometimes I'll run a heat lamp for a while to try and arm things up a little.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Nov 14, 2019 9:47:41 GMT -5
inyo, thank you for that link. That's our stomping grounds these days, recognize some of the roadcuts from the pictures, a few of them we've stopped and looked at. More exploring in the future. Great stuff. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Oct 31, 2019 18:40:45 GMT -5
Thanks for the report and pictures. Looks like you did good. Really like that area and need to get back over there. Never thought 95 was that bad myself, and We drive 50 every time we go to town. Nice color in that stuff.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 26, 2019 13:54:34 GMT -5
Pulled out some Lavic that I picked up in April on that trip with Scott, Norm and James. took a few pictures. A random Botswana that wound up in this batch.
And a couple of local finds.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 11, 2019 9:13:28 GMT -5
Busy summer so didn't get a lot done with rocks. While in the garage working on other things I'd throw a rock in the saw and let it run. Nothing really special, just some stuff we collected over the spring and summer here in Nevada.
Thanks for looking. Have a great day.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 11, 2019 8:48:08 GMT -5
Nice stuff there.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 4, 2019 14:50:32 GMT -5
I've managed to find several hangovers in Jackson. Can't really help too much with rocks around there, but if you're going to be farther east I can help with a few spots.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 4, 2019 14:41:01 GMT -5
Really nice. Liking the "raw" texture.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 4, 2019 14:37:55 GMT -5
Very nice. I picked some u in Quartzsite last winter and it did seem as though a lot of them had fractures. Awfully pretty stones, though.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Sept 4, 2019 14:14:52 GMT -5
We took some time over the holiday weekend to go over to Great Basin National Park. Being the second least visited National Park it wasn't all that busy even on a holiday. I posted pictures of Mount Wheeler back in June, I think. Most of the snow has melted off, but last winter was 200% of average snowfall. Kind of hesitant to post in this sub forum since what I do certainly isn't photography.
Looking into the cirque. Lurking under the rocks that have fallen from the cirque walls is the last remaining glacier in the Great Basin. We didn't climb to the peak, time was a little short. That is already penciled in for next summer. 13,061 feet.
Curl Leaf Mountain Mahogany
Close up of the Mountain Mahogany. The seeds develop those white corkscrew-like tails.
Looking East. The mountains in the background are in Utah. The valley floor was under water during the Pleistocene, an arm of Lake Bonneville.
We went on the tour of Lehman Caves while we were there. Those are solution caverns in Cambrian Limestone deposited on the rifted margin of Laurentia about 500-550 million years ago. I have no words to describe it. Had a few pictures that didn't turn out too horrible so I'll just post them.
If you're in the neighborhood it's well worth the stop. If you're not in the neighborhood then it's well worth heading on over there. Absolutely incredible. Since it's pretty much just over the hill from us we'll most likely go back again.
Thanks for looking. Russ
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