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« Reply #80 on: August 28, 2011, 10:35:28 am »
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after over 30 years of use, I finally broke my microscope Ive had since childhood lol, you know your a nerd when you wear out a microscope  Funny I mainly used mine for my other hobby, raising fish, (fish farming, breeding, disease control, parasite control) For viewing coins and jewelry I have a lens from a telescope I took apart. 

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« Reply #81 on: August 28, 2011, 12:39:27 pm »
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Ohh!!  Vision, you really threw me with the new picture!  lol!  Frightened my dog, even!    Grin  Grin  Grin
I still have a 3inch reflecting telescope I saved my money for and bought when I was a junior in high school  (1962 or 63 - tells you about my age doesn't it?) for $30!  Yes, to afford it, I had to save my money.  I changed the mirror in it once.  Don't use it much anymore, and I haven't yet worn it out.

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« Reply #82 on: August 29, 2011, 08:38:17 am »
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I can't find that lens I was going to send you.  As soon as I come across it I will send it

It's okay.  I bought a jeweler's loupe, an eye glass attachment, and a couple of super strong reading glasses.  Plus the microscope is on its way.  Now I'm thinking I'm gonna go to the 2nd hand store and by a cast iron deep pot and a big hammer head and start crushing quartz!

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Nice quartz samples by the way, now to figure out where they are coming down from

they'd be alot nicer if they had a big streak of gold thru them!

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« Reply #83 on: August 29, 2011, 08:57:35 am »
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I'd advise against cast iron since sometimes it can be brittle and actually break. I have a piece of 3/8s iron channel that works pretty good. Like you say the deeper the better and also get a faceshield of some kind cause rock chips hurt  Cry

Thats why I decided to actually build a little 1 or 2 hammer stamp maybe this winter.

Also you get a lot of steel bits mixed in from the hammer and mortor, looks like a big haul that first pan  Grin

My son came over yesterday and brought some of his concentrates from his last trip so I ran em through the seperator. Got me all fired up for the next trip  Grin

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« Reply #84 on: August 30, 2011, 08:46:25 am »
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avision, "you know your a nerd when you wear out a microscope"....This is a quotable quote! but no I don't necessarily agree. You know you are a nerd when you start collecting microscopes! I have 3 and I regret passing up a fourth one at a garage sale the other day. Funny  gambol

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Okletsee, I started out with a cast iron pot but knocked the bottom out of it. Then I went to a welding shop and had this custom one made. Its all 1/2 inch material and works well enough but I should have made it deeper. Its good for chunks of quartz up to about 3 inches but larger than that there is a bit of a splash out problem. The weight is about 30 lbs. that is why the large handles on both sides. The long handle pestle is a must so you can work it standing up. Notice both pestles are flat on the bottom. That is necessary for crushing hard materials... For larger pieces in the field,  I use a cut off oxygen cylinder cut off to 24 inches as a mortor. It is lighter weight but does just as well breaking up stone down to the small pebble size when you bury the end in the ground. It has an uneven bottom so its not so good for crushing finer. I've used these for crushing ceramic materials for pottery, For grinding borax Flux and flint for blacksmithing for separating lapus Luzuli from matrix rock and for making pigments as well as for grinding glass frit and a number of other uses. A good Iron mortor is always a usefull tool. gambol.  Wise

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Lots of ingenuity out there!  I hit two second-hand stores in Boise yesterday...they didn't have a dang thing anyway.  I did find one heavy, smaller aluminum pressure cooker, very old.  They wanted too much for it.  It was a piece of junk as pressure cookers go, but I could have used the bottom half as something to start with anyway.  Right now I just want to be able to grind smaller samples.  That stuff Gambol has is the way to go.

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« Reply #86 on: August 30, 2011, 11:18:50 am »
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I have a old Post Pounder I use a with a 2 1/2 foot peace of bar stock with.

Sure gets heavy after about 30 mashes.   LOL!   Need to hook it up to a bike some how.

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« Reply #87 on: August 30, 2011, 06:51:29 pm »
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Need to hook it up to a bike some how.

Make sure you get one with 18 gears...you're going to need them!

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Ohh!!  Vision, you really threw me with the new picture!  lol!  Frightened my dog, even!    Grin  Grin  Grin
I still have a 3inch reflecting telescope I saved my money for and bought when I was a junior in high school  (1962 or 63 - tells you about my age doesn't it?) for $30!  Yes, to afford it, I had to save my money.  I changed the mirror in it once.  Don't use it much anymore, and I haven't yet worn it out.


I break cameras with this mug regularly lol.  I dont know how I could wear out a telescope, but my microscope gets a beating! All those years of using it outside alot of times to view water samples, but mostly using the adjustments, it was only a $15 one in 1975. I used a 2lb. hammer and a piece of canvas layed over rocks I had put on the concrete approach to our barn as a kid to crush rocks. I wonder if carrying a 2 lb. hammer and canvas would be good even now to take with you hiking in the field? Find a big old rock to use like that?

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Find a big old rock to use like that

Hmmmm, I don't know why not.  Did the canvas wear out pretty quick?

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