Building a stone polisher
May 19, 2005
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That's most interesting. I would like to learn a bit more about that process...
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using one of these
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regards, charlie
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Thanks, very interesting stuff.
iAs an aside, we recently went camping about 25 miles NNW of Tonopah, Nevada. We found an old mining operation where obsidian balls (called Apache tears after polishing) were being taken out of a mountainside. There were bazillions of them.
I often wondered how a large operation like that would process them. Or, if they used them for something else besides tumbled stones for jewelry.
Any hints?
Steve
I am seriously considering making a stone polisher out of a used tire, some shaft, a 3/4 HP gear motor, and chains and sprockets. I just talked to my friend to whom I gave the gearmotor 3 years ago, he said that it lies unused, and he could give it to me.
i
Just found some nice Torrington 1 1/8" ID needle bearings. If I can buy a pipe slightly below this diameter, I can put it in these bearings, put flanges on both sides, add a big sprocket to one side, the tire (properly mounted) to another, with the 3/4 HP 60 RPM gearmotor that my friend is giving to me, I will be in business!
I will try to stop by some tire changing place tomorrow to ask for a used tire.
iIt took me a while to work out the motor speed as I
That's ingenious!
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