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« on: May 01, 2010, 07:10:37 pm »
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I worked a site that has been frustrating me for some time. Some very good finds have been and are being made here but  I've had no luck, just junk. Today I dug a few post holes to see what's down there and I found there is a layer of iron down about 6 inches about 4 inches thick in places. The soil is red with rust. I also brought up old glass and earthen ware shards. It was apparently a dump. everything is in the tumbler tonight tomorrow I'll look at it.

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« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2010, 07:34:37 pm »
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you know what they say "some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant"--Sorry you got stuck with the iron oxide card today.

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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2010, 01:09:36 pm »
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Yup = go thru that trash kinda slow= folk that put it there mighta lost a ring or two when they did it=Ya just never know Wise

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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2010, 03:17:40 pm »
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Well the trash came out of the tumbler today and there was glazed stoneware, lots of green and clear glass, red brick pieces, one piece of phenolic plastic a small peach pit, coal, The only metallic object of interest was copperbearing (or clad) wiresuch as was used for telephone lines back when. Some of the glass shards were from the "Tampa Bottling Company" I found 2 for sale on the internet and a reference that says a beer called "Schnapp's Brew" containing .47% alcohol was bottled there in 1913.

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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 11:35:54 pm »
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     very cool...this tumbler that you are talking about, is it similar to a rock tumbler? or am i totally going in the wrong direction?

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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2010, 02:56:31 pm »
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Yes a small hobby rock tumbler, It rolls a 1 gal paint can.

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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2010, 11:15:26 pm »
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   awesome....so people use it for glass as well? does the time that glass stays in there and the time that rocks would stay in there differ? or are they left in for the same amount of time?

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« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2010, 04:16:41 pm »
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Depends, It depends on if you are polishing or cleaning or "grinding" or burnishing. I worked with tumblers "ball mills" for most of my career and they are used to clean irregular shaped objects by running just a few minutes, grind--- usually powdered materials by running for days, and polishing by running for days or weeks with successive grit media. burnishing is what happens when you place metal objects in a tumbler and run them until the corners are rounded and the surface is smooth. In the 19th-20th century most builders hardware was tumbled to remove the sharp edges and give a uniform appearence....I learned just recently that bottle collectors tumble their bottles to clean them. I don't know how that works but I imagine it is a good way to clean the inside of bottles that have been in the ground a long time. The basic paramaters of ball milling are 1) speed 2) time 3) media 4) load. by varying these you can grind a limestone to make cement or polish amber to a brilliant luster. 

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« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2010, 04:46:16 pm »
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very useful and knowledgeable information, thank you very much.  i really want to get into this and get my daughter involved as well...thank you all for making this a lot easier on a newbie to tumbling.

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