i did it

[frodo]

opps..i posted in wrong spot
couple mths back i asked for help in figuring out how to gear down the rpm on a elec motor from 1500 to 50 rpm.....well i did it. took me a while but i managed to muddle thru. i built a tumbler. i use it to tumble brass cases. that i use to reload ammo with.

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the cases are put in the pvc pipe with stainless steel pins, ewater,lemon juice, dawn dish soap, hour later they come out brand new, shiney inside and out

the brass, before and after tumbling. this works jewelry, on car,gokart, parts !!!
i didnt realise...the trailer is for sale...in mississippi!

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Congratulations!

 

[mckutzy]

I've seen some tumblers that have rollers to accomendate a paint bucket for brass. For doing a big/mixed batches.
Looks cool.

 

[frodo]

ck out the difference stainless steel pin, tumbling maskes in the brass

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[J_Walker]

Nice. when I was 16, I was fascinated in pyrotechnics. So I started to teach myself basics and what not. finally got around to needing a ball mill to create stars for my homemade roman candles.. Well you don't want your ball mill creating static, so I had to find something that wouldn't create static. I forget what I used. but I made my ball mill out of a massive tub of k-nex [yes toys] and with a big ol' remote control motor. I could make 5 LB batches in a single run. Wasn't to shabby I'd say so myself. wish I had pictures! I wish I still had those knex too! lol!

 

[Half-breeder]

... I 'may' be wrong... but I 'think', w/ the right medium(sand/silt/glass), you can tumble rocks in that too... polished rocks are expensive... for 'just' being, rocks tossed in a tumbler.
Nifty build!

 

[frodo]

yes you can polish rocks....my g-ma was a rock hound, i used to go with her to hunt rocks and arrow heads. i have a HUGE collection of arrow heads and spear tips, petrified wood, grinding stones etc...
still to this day...after i hunt...i wonder old fresh plowed fields and river beds looking for stuff

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geoids, hand made bow...

 

[J_Walker]

I knap myself.. of course I just started a few months ago, and when they say it takes practice to learn how to get good points, THEY MEAN IT! Only cruddy part is there's not much rock forming in my part of florida. so I have to walk a mile through mud and creeks to get to some old mining rubble, that normally, if you're willing to do the work and break up the big boulders! you can find Agate coral, normal agate, and some pretty good chert.

I try to do 1 a day, but the past two weeks I've been out of stone, so been practicing on glass. I'll admit, I like stone a lot better.. picture is what I did today. not to shabby, serviceable, could be thinner..

 

[Desertduler]

Nice job on the knapping! I also like to do that.Check out what I found one day.

 

[Desertduler]

Here is an obsidian point I made.

 

[Desertduler]

Sorry guys I did not mean to jack your thread I was just sharing the same interests.

 

[J_Walker]

First picture looks like flagstone??

and no obsidian around here!

 

[Desertduler]

First picture looks like flagstone??

and no obsidian around here!

The metate and mano are both a hard sandstone of two different types.

 

[frodo]

I knap myself.. of course I just started a few months ago, and when they say it takes practice to learn how to get good points, THEY MEAN IT! Only cruddy part is there's not much rock forming in my part of florida. so I have to walk a mile through mud and creeks to get to some old mining rubble, that normally, if you're willing to do the work and break up the big boulders! you can find Agate coral, normal agate, and some pretty good chert.

I try to do 1 a day, but the past two weeks I've been out of stone, so been practicing on glass. I'll admit, I like stone a lot better.. picture is what I did today. not to shabby, serviceable, could be thinner..

come on up to mississippi, we got river beds that will keep you in rock for years
the homochitto river
i talked to a geologiest at the chactaw reservation. he told me that the arrow heads that are made of flag stone looking rock are not arrow heads but are spear heads. from 3000 years ago. arrow heads are made from flint, obsidian, and there was none of that in fla, ala, ms...those indians made a road trip to arkansas..where there is quartz,flint,obsidian fields...and thats where lots of wars were fought. over the arrow head resorrces. so if you find arrow heads in your area. the material is the same as arrow heads here.
he blew me away with that info. i was standing there with 500 spear heads, i thougt were arrow heads

 

[J_Walker]

come on up to mississippi, we got river beds that will keep you in rock for years
the homochitto river
i talked to a geologiest at the chactaw reservation. he told me that the arrow heads that are made of flag stone looking rock are not arrow heads but are spear heads. from 3000 years ago. arrow heads are made from flint, obsidian, and there was none of that in fla, ala, ms...those indians made a road trip to arkansas..where there is quartz,flint,obsidian fields...and thats where lots of wars were fought. over the arrow head resorrces. so if you find arrow heads in your area. the material is the same as arrow heads here.
he blew me away with that info. i was standing there with 500 spear heads, i thougt were arrow heads

Wow to think about 500 spear heads... what did the native's do? Carry them in bulk on their backs?! and yeah, there was actually a native knapping location I think south of tampa. huge chert mine now for something or another, but you find coral agate heads all around there.

Yeah, I ran out of glass bottoms, and now it rained a week ago for like 2 1/2 days straight and I swear the water table level is up around here a good 6" it's pretty bad, you notice this stuff when the nice hardpacked grass is now mucky water with thousands of tadpoles and minnows. so there isn't any way I'm getting back to my location without a helicopter. - Man I need to get a helicopter!