[Rockhounds] Cutting rocks with a wood saw...

[Lapidry at aol.com]

Tim:
 
Glad to hear that the truck bed liner works.... I bought some about a year  
ago to try on my 25 lb vibratory barrels that cost over $200 each at  
Kingsley and have never gotten around to it.....
 
Thanks,
 
Dan
 
 
In a message dated 10/26/2009 2:31:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nospam at orerockon.com writes:

I have  done this with a 50 lb. tumbler barrel. I scraped out the inside of
the  plastic barrel with a steel wire brush on my angle grinder first. You
can  get "truck bed liner" by the gallon at about any auto store.

Tim Fisher  
Ore-ROCK-On! 
Email address at  http://OreRockOn.com


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[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com]  On Behalf Of John Dach
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 8:07 PM
To:  Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
Subject:  Re: [Rockhounds] Cutting rocks with a wood saw...

Would it be possible  to put in plastic on your own???  There are some  
very tough RTV  plastics that I would be curious if folks could  
"plasticize" their  units to what ever thickness they want.  See  
Douglas and  Sturgess in Sa Francisco, Smooth-on, and others that have  
such  materials.  I would suggest that anyone trying such a product   
sandblast the areas to be "plasticized".   Any questions will  be  
answered........................

John  Dach
john at mlce.net

"It's dangerous to be right when your government  is wrong"==Voltaire

On Oct 25, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Lapidry at aol.com  wrote:

> Too put is shortly.... table saws and rocks don't go  together....  
> don't
> even go there....
>
>  The suggestion of the harbor freight saw wasn't a bad one... they   
> have  a 7
> inch frequently for $60 and a 10 inch tub saw  for $200 pretty often.
> Quality  isn't the best but its something  to start you out. My  
> father-in-law got
> one of  the  tub saws and it went bad within the 90 day warrantee. The
> replacement  has  lasted a couple years. You might want to look and  
> see  if you have
> a local  store... we have two in my city.... They  also carry two  
> vibratory
> tumblers  and a small  double barrel drum tumbler. I wish they'd use  
> a better
>  plastic  on the vibratory and make the plastic about 5 times as   
> thick....
> then it  would be a bargain at the price they  ask.
>
> Dan
>
>
> In a message dated 10/25/2009  6:46:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> staroleum at yahoo.com  writes:
>
> I have  no lapidary experience. My main rock  interests heretofore  
> have been
> in  searching and  finding rough material in the field. Now that  
> I've  found
> some,  though, I'm curious to see what's  inside.
>
> Can you convert a table saw  for cutting wood  into a saw for  
> cutting rock?
>
> One day I saw 3  different  table saws for sale for $50, so it  
> seemed like  a
> sign. Sort of.
>
> All the  lapidary and tile saws  I've been looking at are much more  
> spendy.
>
>  Apart  from getting a blade that can cut rocks, what other  
>  considerations
> might there  be?
>
> Keeping the blade  wet without getting the motor wet.
>
> For  that reason I  would guess that it would be better to have the  
> motor
>  well away  from the blade, rather than beneath it.
>
> Are  there other considerations?
>
> Or, is this just a really bad  idea?
>
> Just curious.
>
> Thank you in  advance.
>
>
>
>
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