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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 28, 2018 10:48:09 GMT -5
These colored lenses are imprinted with the words KOPP GLASS According to their website . . . ----------------------------------- Borosilicate glass is a strong and durable material that is well suited for harsh environments. Long exposure to ultraviolet light, chemicals, salt, and other abrasive materials has little to no effect on it. ----------------------------------- www.koppglass.com/about/added ... You are correct Wikipedia says it is Pyrex en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borosilicate_glassSo Now . . . the lingering question ... Will It Tumble ?
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 28, 2018 0:44:53 GMT -5
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 28, 2018 0:14:33 GMT -5
Working another day running Spotlight for The Sound Of Music. These are the same type of glass used in traffic and railroad signals. Did some more cleaning out in the basement today and found about 200 of these in all I have a 4 color set picked out for Jamesp, waiting here at the house, the smooth ones. Anybody else want any ?
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 27, 2018 12:37:37 GMT -5
Will be stopping at the hardware store on the way home to pick some up-also need some things for my Dremel- Failure not an option-----Will not disappoint you Oil the tumbler at least once a month. is operating around abrasives and needs all the help it can get. Also oil the dremel ...
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 27, 2018 12:26:40 GMT -5
Jamesp has been inspiring me to tumble more glass because of the great results he is getting by tumbling art glass. So I have been on the lookout for glass that is thick enough to work with. I was cleaning out the basement under the stage in the 2000 seat theater that I work at, when I noticed the large pile of Obsolete and Broken lighting fixtures in the corner destined for the dumpster. Suddenly I realized how much glass that is available from the lenses of those lights. So I started taking apart the lens tubes and harvesting some thick glass. Some of them are Fresnel lenses that have thick sawtooth ridges molded in circles around the lens and some are parabolic shaped. A short time later I noticed a large pile of roundels which are disks of colored glass used to color the lights in lighting strips over the stage. These were stacked up just for the taking. The lighting fixtures these belong to were thrown in a dumpster during a remodel we did 6 years ago. They are Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. Some are totally smooth and shiny and some have lines or bumps on the surface that control how the light spreads out. These are 7 3/16 inch diameter and slightly less than 1/4 inch thick judging by this one which was broken when I found it. Just got these home at midnight and just now making plans on what I am going to do with this stuff. Any Ideas ?
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 27, 2018 1:00:38 GMT -5
The force has been strong on this one . . .
James tumbling "High End" glass, made me wanna do it some more myself.
So I'm cleaning up the basement under the stage at the theater I work at and discovered a huge pile of Broken and Obsolete lights that will never be used again. Decided to get a buncha lenses and got busy cannibalizing some lighting fixtures. That is when I discovered the piles of Roundels that we can't use anymore. Roundels are round colored glass that were used to color lights mounted in strips over the stage. These are 7 inches in diameter and come in Red, Blue, Green and Orange with a thickness between 1/4 and 3/8 inch.
The Clear lenses are between 1/4 and 1 inch thick, quality glass without bubbles. Got some Fresnel lenses too, thick sawtooth patterns in circles around the glass.
Will try and post some pictures in the morning . . .
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 25, 2018 1:44:47 GMT -5
You must take more
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 25, 2018 1:19:31 GMT -5
The pieces I have selected are the ones that I really want to tumble myself. But I've got plenty of rocks to run through the tumblers.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 25, 2018 0:24:57 GMT -5
I am also getting my stuff set to the side. Have a decent mix-throwing in some stuff that I've self collected from MN, some stuff that I've bought & some stuff that has been given to me. All of my rocks are self-collected. I have been stressing about what Rocks I could contribute. I don't buy rocks.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 24, 2018 23:55:58 GMT -5
Already picking out the rocks i plan to add. Are we sure that Ali has enough posts to qualify yet ? I just hope y'all like my rocks
That is what I'm thinking, Alabama does not offer the best rocks. Got a few picked out that should be winners. You said "Y'all", that is genuine Alabama language.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 24, 2018 23:39:38 GMT -5
I think that since the stone is fairly featureless, that the longer prongs add interest.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 24, 2018 23:18:56 GMT -5
Already picking out the rocks i plan to add.
Are we sure that Ali has enough posts to qualify yet ?
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 23, 2018 10:00:30 GMT -5
Yes this would be the same rock that would be found in Fort Payne. I think you had identified it as chert a year ago when I first started Tumbling, Was just making sure with some better pictures. It looks great while rough but almost never looks good tumble polished.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 21:28:08 GMT -5
What is an MH auction ?
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 17:51:16 GMT -5
One of my favorite science shows is "Nova" on the PBS channel. 2 weeks ago they did a 2 hour special on Black Holes this was a very informative documentary with mind blowing recent discoveries Better than Science fiction, It can be seen here . . . www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/black-hole-apocalypse.html
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 17:41:24 GMT -5
Some of the best SciFi movies I have seen recently were
Oblivion - 2013 Tom Cruise and Interstellar - 2014 Matthew McConaughey
Awesome gripping movies Not available on Streaming
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 17:17:39 GMT -5
Well ... you answered it in another thread . . . Looks like Malted Milk Balls
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 17:10:00 GMT -5
I get them going In and Out. But mainly going Out where I will pull the van over to the rocks for easy carrying to the vehicle. Plus so I can make extra trips, maybe I should carry buckets, one for rocks and one for the beer.
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 16:15:36 GMT -5
Just watched Sleeping Beauty (1959) on BluRay, goodness gracious the sound track on that one is unbelievable and the animation was better than anything that comes out these days. Next up for the DVD player is ...
Porky's - 1981 Idiocracy - 2006 Stripes - 1981 Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 1985 Repo Man - 1984 An American in Paris - 1951
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Post by Wooferhound on Jan 22, 2018 15:12:20 GMT -5
2 years ago when I first met my girlfriend, now fiancee, she would collect rocks on all our outings and they were starting to build up a bit. I had always been interested in tumbling so I thought it would be a great idea to get her a small tumbler for Christmas. Well, she has never touched the tumbler and it has taken over my hobby life. She is fairly interested when a new batch comes out of polish, but not so much interested in the process to get them there. She asks some questions about it all, but I think she is just trying to show some interest for my sake. When I am inspired to stop the van and hunt rocks, she groans about it at first and then helps me out.
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