zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Feb 5, 2019 0:16:11 GMT -5
beefjello - Brian, I see lots of awesome cabs there. Please post cabs if you cut any from this agate. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Feb 4, 2019 15:59:51 GMT -5
I can finish a cab in 20-45 mins. 1 1/2 hours - 2 hours for double-sided cabs. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 24, 2019 20:00:14 GMT -5
If it's not from Calif, then I think I saw a vendor with something similar looking, but can't remember the location. AZ, Mexico, South America? Please tell us! Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 24, 2019 11:29:04 GMT -5
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 22, 2019 18:34:56 GMT -5
So here is m question especially for those that are very good at ID When someone posts something for ID what makes you help them out and what makes you look but not respond? Sometimes I feel it isnt worth it too ask for help I'm silent when they post lousy photos, a single photo, 95% background - 5% stone, lack of info like location, hardness, etc. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 15, 2019 12:30:00 GMT -5
Last year I had decided to get my butt to Texas & hound at Singleton Ranch. Then it got sold.
I got to dig at the Royston Turquoise mine the last year they allowed that. I'd better find a way to get to Texas before those opportunities dry up. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 15, 2019 11:35:29 GMT -5
How is a 5 gallon bucket of Amethyst worth $15,000 - 20,000? Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 14, 2019 17:34:58 GMT -5
I use a plastic bullet holder marked Remington. It has 5 rows of 10 holes. Each is about 3/8" diameter. I scrounged it somewhere, so no idea what bullets it came with. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 14, 2019 10:31:13 GMT -5
Man, I hate winter. It's 11 degrees right now in Cedar City, UT, with a high of 25 this afternoon. I need a beach week! Or a Quartzite week! What's the temp in Quartzite right now? Lynn Do you a deal. You can have our heat (forecast to be 109 tomorrow and 113 the next) and I'll have half of the cooler weather. That would make a nice 67, at least it would be nice to sleep at night. I hate winter too. If we're trading, it's got to be a straight across trade. Or, if you get half my cold, I get half your heat. I get to spend 5 days in Quartzite starting Wed. That'll thaw me out a bit. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 14, 2019 2:15:03 GMT -5
I have hot water at the sink in my garage. I hook up a hose to it, then to a car washing nozzle that gives a fine, focused spray. Not as high pressure as a pressure washer, but it does the job. I clean my 14" saw this way about every 3rd cleanout. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 14, 2019 1:02:36 GMT -5
The Gem maker is sold, pending pickup. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 13, 2019 0:30:56 GMT -5
I've got a B & I Gem Maker for sale. SOLDIt has a couple of 8" wheels, but I'm pretty sure it's the 10" model. One "wheel" is a 1/2" thick steel backing plate that's pretty rusted. It can be de-rusted & used. There's a very fine Silicon Carbide wheel, probably 300 - 400 grit or so. It feels finer than a typical 220. It has the water feed cup, vise, & a pulley that was once mounted on the edge. It would guide the weight for the vise. I haven't done any work on it. I don't need it, nor do I need another project. As is typical, you'll probably need to replace the bushings. $100 It's in Cedar City, Utah, but I am going to Quartzite Jan 16-20. I will bring it with me if someone wants to buy it there. PM me if interested in any of these. I'm posting them in a couple other locations.
I have a Kerr Centrifico brand centrifuge for casting. It will accommodate up to a 2 3/4" deep flask. SOLD$125 I have a Lortone tumbler base, no barrels or motor. SOLD I think this holds a 12-15lb barrel. The rubber tubing on the shafts is 8 3/4" long. The pulley is 12" diameter.
$40 Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 12, 2019 13:21:44 GMT -5
jm - Awesome DIY project. DIY is the heart & soul of a user forum like RTH! I like meeting rockhounds who collect their own material and make their own machines. Good to have you here. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 11, 2019 15:04:56 GMT -5
We have a similar blue agate here in Cedar City, UT. It's not in veins, but big chunks. The smaller/thinner you make the piece, the more the blue looks gray. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 10, 2019 13:45:02 GMT -5
Thanks Tela but I have no need to join anot her item or app in order to post pics. No other site on the Internet requires that plus it doesn't work well with android. As I have pointed out in the past no one on a percentage basis uses a desktop anymore. It's android phones or tablets and or I pads or itablets. In any business you grow and expand or die. Enough on this subject. This thread is to compliment my friend Roy for a very thoughtful and caring gift!!! Yeaaa you go ROY!!! Bill, I'm doing all my posting to this forum on a DESKTOP! I upload my photos to my RTH folder on my website - www.playzar.com, then copy the filename/path to the post. Not that I don't have a smartphone or tablet, but I'm a Workin' Man, sitting next to my personal compouter while I work on my company computer. Does that make me one of the 1%? Does that make me rich? Wow! I've never known what it was to be rich, just comfortable. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 10, 2019 1:39:00 GMT -5
I used to use super glue. I found that heat or lots of sunlight can make it release. I use 30 minute epoxy now. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 9, 2019 15:16:54 GMT -5
daveI opened a file at 300 dpi 5769x3846 5.40MB I used an 8x10 crop on all just to keep it manageable. I cropped it to 8x10 and left it at 300 dpi for 3000x2400 at 2.23 mb
I cropped it at 8x10 and 150 dpi for 1500x1200 at 777 kb the image is smaller I cropped at 8x10 and 72 dpi for 720x576 at 249k kb the image is smaller I cropped it at 8x10 and 25 dpi for 250x200 at 50.8 kb the image is smaller again. Is that what you were asking about? The smaller the dpi the smaller the picture and the lighter in "weight". It's not that "the smaller the dpi the smaller the picture and the lighter in "weight". It's the number of pixels in the image that changes the "weight" or file size. 3000x2400 is more pixels than 1500x1200, is more pixels than 720x576, is more pixels than 250x200. Each succeeding image has less total pixels. Less tiles in your design = less weight or less $ at the tile store. What aDave did in his example above is save the same image at different dpi settings without changing the number of pixels in the image. The pixels are just packed closer or further apart. Your example throws away pixels as you make the different versions. I'm not familiar with the process you use to do that, but that's the difference in your & his examples. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 9, 2019 0:57:12 GMT -5
Do you want to build a rotating lap or a vibrating lap? What diameter do you want?
Look at commercially available machines & decide what you want. That would be a good starting point. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 9, 2019 0:53:25 GMT -5
Think of pixels as tiles. You design a layout using X x Y number of tiles. The size of document describing the design is based on the total number of tiles. One line of the document defines the size of the tiles. No matter the size of the tiles, that line doesn't change. It may vary by one or several characters, like the difference between 72 or 1000, but that is negligible to the size of the document. I hope this is clear as mud, as my Mom used to say. Lynn
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
Member since December 2005
Posts: 1,791
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Post by zarguy on Jan 9, 2019 0:45:59 GMT -5
Beautiful collage of Stone Canyon jasper. It's been one of my favorites for years. I still have a cab of it that I cut when I was 12. Lynn
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