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Rocks from Lefty
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<blockquote data-quote="Wishfull" data-source="post: 436877" data-attributes="member: 7460"><p>G'day all. A while ago I got some stones from Lefty. Actually it was well over 6 weeks ago. When I received them I put them through the various stages of tumbling. Came to the second last stage and they looked terrible. No where near smooth. Didn't look much better than sand papered stones. My fault. I was using old plasic balls for filling. Bad idea. The previous grits had embedded into the plastic balls. So being rather $ poor atm I ended up racking up the nectarine seed shells from under my tree and crushing them up with a dolly and using them for filler. I changed the on each stage. Finally they came out really nice. Very happy. Amethyst were Lefties last lot. The others were some O had previously done but wasn't happy with so I retumbled them.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/7460/1535880778_2018-09-02_18.49.03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wishfull, post: 436877, member: 7460"] G'day all. A while ago I got some stones from Lefty. Actually it was well over 6 weeks ago. When I received them I put them through the various stages of tumbling. Came to the second last stage and they looked terrible. No where near smooth. Didn't look much better than sand papered stones. My fault. I was using old plasic balls for filling. Bad idea. The previous grits had embedded into the plastic balls. So being rather $ poor atm I ended up racking up the nectarine seed shells from under my tree and crushing them up with a dolly and using them for filler. I changed the on each stage. Finally they came out really nice. Very happy. Amethyst were Lefties last lot. The others were some O had previously done but wasn't happy with so I retumbled them. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/7460/1535880778_2018-09-02_18.49.03.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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