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Post by Nappers on Feb 17, 2019 23:32:55 GMT -5
I inherited some pet wood, may have to dig some out and send you some! I like it. I need to get my rocks in order and start tumbling. I also want to make a map of the US with rocks. I have bad A.D.D. and my 15 different projects are on going! LOL.
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Post by Nappers on Apr 1, 2018 10:02:44 GMT -5
I've used that Walmart brand brake cleaner on rubber bits to clean them. Usually works good. My rubber mallets love it. I clean them up and the rubber is good as new. That stuff melts some plastics and strips paint. So be careful with it!
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Post by Nappers on Feb 15, 2018 23:01:41 GMT -5
From my favorite movie... Okay. I'm with you fellas. Oh Brother Where Art Thou? I with Y'all. Would be beautiful!!
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Post by Nappers on Dec 7, 2017 20:09:47 GMT -5
The red polka dotted one? Yeah, I think they are all west coast finds. As far as I know, Grandpa never bought any rocks, all found.
Got me going. I usually have baggy pants at the beach from all the gems I find.
I'm always looking down when we hike, to look for rocks and to keep from tripping on my own feet!
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 7, 2017 19:53:57 GMT -5
Oh man that stinks!
See if they have video surveillance or anyone around them have it. Will their insurance cover loss?
Hope you find them!
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 7, 2017 19:49:37 GMT -5
Glad you got it figured out. Beautiful rock!
I bought the USA Bearings in the past for my Harbor Fright 1X30 belt sander that I toasted the bearings from working on metal (making a throwing knife for black powder rondo) and replaced the ones in my import drill press.
Glad you're back at it.
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 7, 2017 19:40:36 GMT -5
Not sure on the opals, my uncle inherited the stuff from Grandpa. He didn't want anymore and was very excited I was coming to get it and the huge crates of rocks.
Thanks for the information on the spooler. I found some old books and a Diamond Pacific catalog from 1972 I think. I'll scan and put pics up.
I went through so many rocks. I found some polished rocks, Apache tears, boxes and crates of slabs, started cabs (my future practice pieces), crystals, some really nice thunder eggs and a bit of obsidian. And, I have a nice fossil in some sort of chalky like rock that is stunning that my mom had from grandpa. Pictures soon on that in appropriate section.
I can't wait to get better organized in my reload room, get shelves up and start cabbing and dabble in some wire wrapping.
So far I separated some larger rocks for slaying with a saw someday, medium jagged rocks, medium round rocks and so forth. I have what I suspect is a little bit of pet wood. Grandpa liked to polish one side of a rock, not sure why, maybe to set in something.....
Anyways,
Thanks again for information!!!!
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 7, 2017 9:28:09 GMT -5
I misspoke. It’s USA Bearing and Belts. Not sure if on eBay anymore but have a site. www.usabearingsandbelts.comAgain hope you get it figured out!!!!!!
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 22:07:41 GMT -5
If the seal is rubber you can use a thin feeler gauge (from setting the points in the Impala) to work the seal out then put a little grease in them. My theory is the shaft is not square with the bearings somehow and toasting the bearings. Picture a misaligned bell housing, it'll toast your main bearings quickly as it's putting unwanted pressure on them to one side.
Hope you figure it out!!!! What a pain. US Bearings (ebay) has good prices on bearings.
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 20:27:20 GMT -5
Thanks!
I totally plan and have my own collection. Mostly tumbling material as years ago I got a little 3lb'er (if that) tumbler from guess.... I added a dual tumbler from Harbor Freight for rocks and wet tumbling my brass for reloading.
I just wanted to show off what I got from my Uncle, and my mom too.
I have a great fossil to photograph. Not sure how to preserve it or mount it in something to keep it safe. I'll photo later and put in the fossil section.
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 19:04:39 GMT -5
LMAO! I like it!
It works and I have some cabbing to do. It needs drive belts though for all of them!
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 19:00:30 GMT -5
Greetings gang, My IntroGoing through some of Grandpas rocks here are some pix I call these "worm rocks" Grandpa liked these I think, has more somewhere A Box of rocks, I separated slabs from partial slabs (a slab cut off), from others. In my intro, a recent trip I got a bunch of rocks I suspect this is petrified wood and holding in my hand, it's rather heavy too Natures way of making a sphere Suspiciously looks like petrified wood? Obsidian in slabs and whatnot This is a nice rock with a shell in it! Different angle This is just some of the stuff I got from my Uncle that was Grandpas Thanks for looking Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 18:47:57 GMT -5
Thanks! This is just a part of what I got!!!! These were the ones in the buckets, milk crates outside of my Uncles House for a few years I might add. I brought them in and washed them up and separated them. I also put pictures of my machines in the lapidary section.
I have a huge imagination, I eventually want to try a map of the USA with the rocks. I would like to make some grips for my Colt Commander and make some cabs in different sizes and shapes for family. Maybe get into wire wrapping.....
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 18:40:03 GMT -5
Greeting gang, My IntroThe machines I inherited from my uncle. Says Pixie but other commented it's probably a Genie. I think it's a mix match home made jobber..... Heavy duty mounted on a particle board 2 on the left, no grit written on the wheels. but one rougher than the other The middle, pixie branded cover? homemade I think This wheel or drum maybe it's called has different grits, no water or at least no provision for water, maybe impregnated compound on cover It unscrews from the shaft and has a threaded end for a backing plate with a polishing pad The pad The cover, at first thought Grandpa used an end of a soda bottle and almost tossed it With the flat polisher pad mounted The pump for the spitter gizmo Has a light that clips on a fitting mounted to the board This is the other polisher, look familiar? found little to no information on it Has these little syringes with dried up compound. I imagine put some on rock, press against the wood part Not a bad start to this madness. The rocks Grandpa had are beautiful and I have a lot of work to do. Thanks for looking Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 6, 2017 18:25:41 GMT -5
Greetings gang, My IntroSome of Grandpas slabs: Small Slabs Rocks with a slab cut off, large: Larger Slabs Rocks with slabs cut off, small Large piece of Jade? It's large I really like this one This is a pretty one Scratched but Shiny, needs some work I did not cut any of these, these are Grandpas slabs that I got from my uncle. Thanks for looking. Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Dec 1, 2017 2:07:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the warm welcome Gang! I'll look at the cab machine again, it looks home made with Pixie parts on it..... I love our area, Redding is about a 2 hour drive from my house and don't frequent enough. The Central Point club has lapidary classes. I'm still hoping someone from Fort Jones contacts me.
I'm excited to start grinding some cabs. I have quite an imagination and hopefully put it to use long as my A.D.D. doesn't kick in. "Bright shiny objects!"
I have so many rocks, my next week off I may try to photo some with some guidance from the rest of you great artists displaying your collections.
A lot of Grandpa's slabs have circles drawn on them and shapes of some sorts where it looked like he was going to make stuff. I may try a dremel to cut those out rough cut and grind the rest. I just need a respirator so I don't breath in any unwanted dust. I do use safety glasses, when a cut off wheel fractures and goes everywhere and bounces off your face and glasses, I thank the good lord that I was wearing them otherwise I may not see the beauty that's in our ground.
We have a marble pit just up the road from my house and like to see what I can do with that. Kind of cool that the pit made it into the No. California rockhound book.
Anyways,
I'll try to display my stuff soon.
L8R
Aaron
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Post by Nappers on Nov 30, 2017 2:54:16 GMT -5
Greetings gang,
Glad to be here after looking at a few rock hounding sites.
From Etna CA the real Northern CA! not to far from the Oregon border off I-5.
I've always been kind of a rock hound since my grandfather showed me some rocks when I was a wee lad.
he passed away some years ago and my Uncle got a lot of his stuff and I got a good amount of finished stuff, misc. slabs of rocks, necklaces etc.
Just this past weekend my grandmother died at a very young age of 99. I went down to visit my mom and family to help with moving her stuff out of her apartment. My uncle was ecstatic that I was coming down as he didn't want the stuff anymore as he didn't have time anymore due to other projects. I got a few milk crates, buckets and boxes of rocks, polished rocks, slabs, boxes of what looks like needle obsidian along with bigger pieces in old Berkley plastic containers for fishing line and of course a couple of thunder eggs one of the eggs looks like huge eyeballs! A lot of the rocks were stored in old Kodak film boxes like for slides, heavy duty. It was fun to go through a lot of it before I had to clean it up before the wife got home. The living room floor was covered in some sort of rock related thing. I also got a Pixie gem polisher with 2 wheels on one side and what appears to be a one piece with 4 different wheels on the other side (threads on the shaft), they show the grit but it looks rubber. The end of the one piece has threads for a backing plate. The diamond wheels has the spitter thing, but the other side does not and it appears to be complete and no mounting for anything for water. In the misc. stuff, he had 8-10" flat grit pads, a diamond coated saw blade (no saw) and some articles typed up on a typewriter and some old books on the subjects. I also got a polisher of some kind that uses a resin wood wheeled thing different curves and sizes along with syringes filled with various colored grits (dried up) and it spins, needs belt as well as for the Pixie drive belt and the water spitter pump belt. The pump looked good and I cleaned the machine up. It's mounted on a particle board and plan to mount it on something sturdier than that. I already owned Southern Oregon and Northern California rock hounding books and often look. I really like Obsidian though and visited Glass Buttes (or mountain, I get them mixed up) up by Bend Oregon. I'm always kicking rocks at the beach to find some nice naturally polished rocks and end up with saggy pants with pockets of rocks. My first rock with grandpa rock hounding was a nice piece of Jade and I love Jade. I also try to find flint for primitive fire starter for black powder shooting rondo's. I don't know what to look for with that. I probably stand on a lot of flint.....
I tried to find a club near me (Fort Jones CA had one but no one emailed me back yet), Central Point OR has a nice rock museum and do some kind of lapidary classes during the week for a small non profit fee to which I may check out.
I work at the local klink for the last 24 years or so and plan to retire in just over a year. I can't wait!
Anyways, I'll try to not talk to much and try to get some pictures of my machines at least until I get someplace to show off the rocks without my wife howling that she can't walk through the house as my crap is all over the place. She likes rock hounding too, She's a good sport with my many A.D.D. hobbies and projects and cut once without measuring. She jokes it only takes 5,000 board feet to make a wood project. I tell her think of all the kindling wood we have for camping!
I have to measure, but Grandpa used these nice cardboard smaller boxes (I'd say 4x4x2 or so) to store stones in and need to find a storing solution and ID and store similar stones alike once I go through them. I have 4 full milk crates of stones to go through, they are sliding around in the back of my truck still as I write this.
Anyways, I digress
Glad to be here and hope to meet some of you on the flip side if you are in the region, I visit Medford OR a lot.
L8R
Aaron Nappers
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