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Post by oregon on Jun 6, 2017 17:11:45 GMT -5
hp comments aside: ... gotta scour aliexpress.
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Post by oregon on Jun 6, 2017 15:20:12 GMT -5
I'm roughing this one out to.finish in class tonight. Carnation Stone. A porphyry. at the point of needing grinding cups for mine, any reasonable/cheap ways to get/make diamond cups for the corse grind?
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Post by oregon on Jun 6, 2017 10:36:14 GMT -5
yeah, when you toss a rock back in the creek and pick it back up a second & third time, I've learned to keep it....
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Post by oregon on Jun 4, 2017 17:59:21 GMT -5
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Post by oregon on Jun 1, 2017 13:33:35 GMT -5
thanks for the 'negative' results - definitely factory, but no ideas here. ah well, back in action soon. Sounds like some folks have had success putting a 12" blade on these and raising them up a bit... hmmm.
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Post by oregon on May 29, 2017 17:06:55 GMT -5
Old Lortone ST-10, the prerunner to the ls-10. I'm just curious. The pan has the usual three studs to anchor the frame down (not pictured, on the other side of the support wall), but there's this other extra long stud on the pan under the arbor (arbor not installed right now either - nightmare cleanup). Looks like there is paint on the weld for the stud, and the saw hasn't been modded at all, so I think it's factory. Just curious if anyone knows what it's function was? Looks to me like the ST-10 has a 16 pitch feed rod while the ls-10,12 etc have 24, otherwise, pretty identical, hope it doesn't saw too fast.
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Post by oregon on May 15, 2017 12:58:50 GMT -5
Hate to toss this out, Older tumbler that could be brought back to life - probably the huge pulley is worth saving alone. No barrels. Motor needs mounted. 1" rods, $50 obo Outside of Eugene.
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Post by oregon on Jan 30, 2017 14:31:42 GMT -5
I feel guilty because the photography plays such a big part of these things, but it's something I take pride in as much as my tumbles. After months of waiting on a tumble to finish, I didn't mind firing off 50 or more exposures to get what I want out of those three photos.
regardless of the stones, hands down the best photo of the bunch imho... Care to share your photo setup? Well done, thx Scott.
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Post by oregon on Jan 30, 2017 14:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by oregon on Jan 21, 2017 15:32:08 GMT -5
Nice rocks, Hopefully the winner will post their polishing AND photographing methods...
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Post by oregon on Nov 29, 2016 12:19:32 GMT -5
Irfanview does so may things that I overlooked the thumbnail menu. F12 was also a good discovery - Basically brings up a MS Paint tool window.
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Post by oregon on Nov 18, 2016 11:33:45 GMT -5
Appreciate that tip oregon. Sounds right up the alley. The functions of the contact sheet may be more complex using iPhoto. The iPhoto is a bit bassackwards in that the contact sheet commands are in the 'print' command. Then pdf to jpeg conversion via download step, seems antiquated. Uploaded Safari recently and it has a new photo program 'Photo'. It seems easy enough. Not sure what it's capabilities are. Then flickr has 'Aviary' allowing decent manipulations right in the host sight for the minor manipulations. Handy that one. Now background removal is a bump, pixelz.com charges to do it, not going there for rocks. Messy areas occurred even with pixelz's complex program. Been looking for a Mac friendly photo shop and thanks. You could try GIMP, open source photoshop basically. Wouldn't be hard to learn how to cut out your firepits...
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Post by oregon on Nov 18, 2016 2:02:37 GMT -5
Been trying to do this. Finally figured it out on a Mac iPhoto. Still figuring how to size photos so they are all equal, final adjustments, etc using 'contact sheet' commands. A cool way to market your wares. Tantalize customers with your stuff in a quicky/easy open view. Saved pdf from iPhoto 'contact sheet' as jpeg(via export command) and then saved to downloads. Opened individually from downloads and then shared to flickr. If you're not a complete mac addict, give irfanview a whirl. Not quite photoshop, but I probably open it more often. It's a great quick free image manipulator, and really great at automating tasks like this. It has a very nice Batch mode, so you can rename, resize, sharpen, etc all the images you'd like with a few clicks. Contact sheets are also available from the thumbnail view. Ever wish to rename a couple thousand images? or resize hundreds of images to post on the web? If you know the pics are going to end up for a contact sheet like this, you can try to take reproducible photos, eg fit the rock in the middle square., use a distinct solid background. For your images, in irfanview, I'd select them, run a batch to resize them (saves to new directory), open the directory with the resized ones, print a contact sheet. There of course are options for resizing, you can get away with minor stretching to make them all nice and squarel, but other wise you could just have the height or width matching the max... Given the varied backgrounds/with the rocks at hand it seems hard to imagine an easy automated background removal here. If you download irfanview, get the plugin package at the same time, some cool features in that tiny fast program, Think there's even a paint option...
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Post by oregon on Nov 7, 2016 16:37:13 GMT -5
That is too funny !!! What do you use for a lid? Printed one, but there should be plenty of other solutions. I imagine the original design of the lotto bowl might of been inspired by the toilet plunger...
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Post by oregon on Nov 7, 2016 11:57:48 GMT -5
Saw a brand new one of these plungers at a sale for a buck - it actually fits the lotto frame perfectly, (larger rock opening) and a slightly different bowl profile, but thick rubber, and should work just fine... Home depot lists them for $16. Haven't tried it yet.
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Post by oregon on Nov 2, 2016 20:10:13 GMT -5
Awesome!!! What kind of agate is it? Liking the colors for sure!! Not sure, busted up a bunch of random jasper/Agate bits from up Fall Creek way, just to see how they'd tumble. Just interesting how perfect square crystals seem to be free floating in the agate...
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Post by oregon on Nov 2, 2016 13:57:21 GMT -5
Thought one of my tumbles must have dropped in glitter the other evening when I was cleaning up... Nice sparkly square gold colored patches all over the rock, hard to photo, and imagine it's just pyrite, but interesting...
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Post by oregon on Oct 29, 2016 1:03:33 GMT -5
Does it have springs on both sides? Side view would be helpful. Yes, the back is symmetrical to the front. Bolt with two links to the springs. Thought maybe the design was out of an old magazine or such maybe.... looking closer the upper walls of the U are slightly pinched in..
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Post by oregon on Oct 28, 2016 22:38:35 GMT -5
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Post by oregon on Oct 28, 2016 16:40:07 GMT -5
I tried rough in the lot-o once, I'd say that was a failed experiment. Going to try jamesp 's idea of adding a 'hammer of Thor' (aka big rock) in the rough barrels to see if I can speed that up.
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