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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  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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		Quote:			Posted by homefire
	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!

Posted on: August 29, 2011, 08:33:24 AM

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		Quote:			Posted by Idaho Jones
	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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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.   gambol

Posted on: August 30, 2011, 07:50:20 AM

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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. 

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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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		Quote:			Posted by ArfieBoy
	Ohh!!  Vision, you really threw me with the new picture!  lol!  Frightened my dog, even!        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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