Guessing BC copied California and outlawed Round Up. Too bad cuz it's awesome for that little problem.
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Rock Tumbler
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Guessing BC copied California and outlawed Round Up. Too bad cuz it's awesome for that little problem.
Looks very effective for 'drive by brail' boulevard encroachers. Contact there would not likely 'just buff out'.
We have a lot of interesting drumlins just outside Calgary sticking up in the middle of another wise flat field. The name is derived from the Gaelic word druim (“rounded hill,” or “mound”). I've seen some from the air that look patterned, almost 'alien'. They are remnants of relatively recent glacial melt. I think Cow Town was buried under 1.5km of ice only 22,000 years ago. But there was a particular animal species that smoked heavily, CO2 levels rose & well... you can see consequences. <insert smartass emoji>
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We have a lot of interesting drumlins just outside Calgary sticking up in the middle of another wise flat field. The name is derived from the Gaelic word druim (“rounded hill,” or “mound”). I've seen some from the air that look patterned, almost 'alien'. They are remnants of relatively recent glacial melt. I think Cow Town was buried under 1.5km of ice only 22,000 years ago. But there was a particular animal species that smoked heavily, CO2 levels rose & well... you can see consequences. <insert smartass emoji>
Drumlins Among Us
Drumlins are a fascinating remnant of our glacier history. Learn what they are, and where they can be found just outside of Calgary.
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10km of ice here. So our Drumlins are bigger. We call them moraines here. My house is built on one.
Apparently it's also deadly to honeybees and with the infestations from the south of an aggressive species of bee they are doing what they can to try and keep the honeybee population from getting out of hand.
Here's a few years later. A drunk driver couldn't decide if he should go straight or go left up the hill so he split the difference. Vehicle was high centered on one of the rocks. And you can see the grass and weeds are starting to look more natural.
One of the reasons we did the landscaping. To avoid people parking in our yard among other things.Looks very effective for 'drive by brail' boulevard encroachers. Contact there would not likely 'just buff out'.
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We have a lot of interesting drumlins just outside Calgary sticking up in the middle of another wise flat field. The name is derived from the Gaelic word druim (“rounded hill,” or “mound”). I've seen some from the air that look patterned, almost 'alien'. They are remnants of relatively recent glacial melt. I think Cow Town was buried under 1.5km of ice only 22,000 years ago. But there was a particular animal species that smoked heavily, CO2 levels rose & well... you can see consequences. <insert smartass emoji>
View attachment 58092Drumlins Among Us
Drumlins are a fascinating remnant of our glacier history. Learn what they are, and where they can be found just outside of Calgary.
It used to be a ditch but was filled in when a new subdivision was added further down the road and they then brought sewer and storm drains along our property. Still took a few years before I got rid of the septic field.
As far as rocks go this is a Hunebed (#D27) in Drenthe, The Netherlands. We visited that with Anja when we took her back for her 1 year puppy show.
I have some large boulders that I'd like to set up something like this on the corner. The Hunebed were grave sites. This is where we'd like to put all our doggy ashes.
Got one of those small rock polisher units for Christmas a long, long time ago. Burned up the motor a few years later. Dad ended up making an entirely new drive unit as the drum was still good. Used two pcs of 1x4 oak lumber with 2 holes each drilled in them as bearings for two old rubber washing machine rollers to ride in, built on a spruce frame that stood up about counter height One roller was belt driven through a countershaft from a 1/3 HP, 1750 RPM motor to get the RPM's down, the other was driven by the drum. Coupla oil holes drilled down to the roller shafts, it purred like a kitten for years. Still have it in storage so, sorry, no pics.
You can place/spread ashes from loved ones (including pets) wherever you want, BUT just do NOT ASK PERMISSION!
I’ve got dozens of golf ball to football sized rocks/minerals all over the house. I’ve also got dozens of tonnes of rock/minerals all over the yard.
Starting inside, these are petrified wood bookends:
and nickel ore bookends from the Sudbury Frood mine:
These are drink coasters from diamond drill cores that were cut on an oblique angle. It is lead/zinc ore form Timmins:
This piece of limestone was used for my Forum avatar. At a Port Dover quarry the soft rock was scraped clean by glaciers. The remaining rock is solid and brittle. Sometimes when collaring a drill hole, a piece like this will spall off. The scratch marks are glacial striations:
Outside my rock collection is less unique. Here are a couple of the backyard rock walls:
My sidewalk is not concrete but flagstone:
My house number is on a piece of limestone from the Queenstone quarry. It was the longest continuous operating quarry in Canada. It suppled all the rock for our provincial parliament buildings:
This front yard bench is a leftover from the Picton ferry dock project:
and this backyard bench is from an old Milton farm house. Before moving out I replaced the rear step so that I could keep it. That was in 1998 and then the stone house was over 125 years old:
Here’s a piece of gold ore from Kerr Addison’s Holtyre mine. Note the blast hole remnant (bottom left):
Starting inside, these are petrified wood bookends:
and nickel ore bookends from the Sudbury Frood mine:
These are drink coasters from diamond drill cores that were cut on an oblique angle. It is lead/zinc ore form Timmins:
This piece of limestone was used for my Forum avatar. At a Port Dover quarry the soft rock was scraped clean by glaciers. The remaining rock is solid and brittle. Sometimes when collaring a drill hole, a piece like this will spall off. The scratch marks are glacial striations:
Outside my rock collection is less unique. Here are a couple of the backyard rock walls:
My sidewalk is not concrete but flagstone:
My house number is on a piece of limestone from the Queenstone quarry. It was the longest continuous operating quarry in Canada. It suppled all the rock for our provincial parliament buildings:
This front yard bench is a leftover from the Picton ferry dock project:
and this backyard bench is from an old Milton farm house. Before moving out I replaced the rear step so that I could keep it. That was in 1998 and then the stone house was over 125 years old:
Here’s a piece of gold ore from Kerr Addison’s Holtyre mine. Note the blast hole remnant (bottom left):
So here's where I am on this:
The yellow handle is Generic PLA, the little alignment drive pin is a finishing nail turned down on my little Unimat DB200. The pins are glued into yellow handle. The lid and body are Bambu PETG HG and the ORing is TPU.
Pitch on the threads is 2mm. I think the TPU Oring is still too hard to great a decent gasket seal. It leaks and if I really reef on the handle to tighten it I then have trouble getting it loose again.
Overall size of the body is 100mm x 120mm long. With the gasket in place (4mm diameter) the overall size if 126mm long. I'd post a photo but it's all black PETG and black TPU so doesn't really photograph well.
Overall the surface finish isn't bad but the slightly softer PETG doens't sand as well as PLA and although after a few cycles the lid threads smoothly into the body once it tightens it sticks because of the rough finish on the threads. I also used random seams so there wouldn't be a thick bump on the threads or mating surfaces.
Not sure what the next step should be. Maybe a real ORing?
The yellow handle is Generic PLA, the little alignment drive pin is a finishing nail turned down on my little Unimat DB200. The pins are glued into yellow handle. The lid and body are Bambu PETG HG and the ORing is TPU.
Pitch on the threads is 2mm. I think the TPU Oring is still too hard to great a decent gasket seal. It leaks and if I really reef on the handle to tighten it I then have trouble getting it loose again.
Overall size of the body is 100mm x 120mm long. With the gasket in place (4mm diameter) the overall size if 126mm long. I'd post a photo but it's all black PETG and black TPU so doesn't really photograph well.
Overall the surface finish isn't bad but the slightly softer PETG doens't sand as well as PLA and although after a few cycles the lid threads smoothly into the body once it tightens it sticks because of the rough finish on the threads. I also used random seams so there wouldn't be a thick bump on the threads or mating surfaces.
Not sure what the next step should be. Maybe a real ORing?
Wow. Overnight printing with the Bambu TPU HF filamanet instead of this:
It did this.
The only thing I can think of is that with the room doors shut overnight and the Bambu cabinet door closed it got too warm inside the cabinet.
I'm printing something now in PLA just to see if the nozzle is jammed.
It did this.
The only thing I can think of is that with the room doors shut overnight and the Bambu cabinet door closed it got too warm inside the cabinet.
I'm printing something now in PLA just to see if the nozzle is jammed.
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Yikes.
Rocks are ok I enjoy making a good sphere or 2 maybe one day a giant sphere but the wife is the addict and is prone to hoarding rocks and now I got baskets of rocks everywhere around the house and little piles that keep growing out side lol also find them in coat pockets.
Some of the show rocks lol
She is a keeper!
Project complete. Only 42 more to do.
Two done in PLA that came out beautifully. The one in Bambu Labs PETG_HF is not as nice. Now to be truthful here I did change the seam to 'nearest'. Maybe should have left it aligned. The threads and a ridge did not come out as nice as the PLA.
I also changed the wall thickness from 2 layers to 4 to make the bottle more robust. Perhaps that also impacted the thread quality.
I'm tempted to print one more in PETG_HF but with same wall and seam settings as the PLA.
In either case I found my table saw again. It was hiding under all this rock tumbler stuff.
Two done in PLA that came out beautifully. The one in Bambu Labs PETG_HF is not as nice. Now to be truthful here I did change the seam to 'nearest'. Maybe should have left it aligned. The threads and a ridge did not come out as nice as the PLA.
I also changed the wall thickness from 2 layers to 4 to make the bottle more robust. Perhaps that also impacted the thread quality.
I'm tempted to print one more in PETG_HF but with same wall and seam settings as the PLA.
In either case I found my table saw again. It was hiding under all this rock tumbler stuff.
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Well I was thinking about it you could buy the off brand of this stuff and coat the inside of your tumbler with it as a wear layer.
We use this stuff at work to fix rubber lined piping. Holds up oil sand mud and rocks so should work well in rock tumbler barrel.
That's if your barrels end up wearing out fast maybe a option to try.
That is excellent friend!!
I dont even know you and im so proud of you.. lol
Looks like you possibly got some fossils and petrified wood, jaspers and some flint/chert?
Nicely organized ni use the same trays from loblaws lol
Its surprisingly relatively easy to make spheres if you know what to do the machine is easy to make from basic parts and a few motors
Thanks and ye got some random stuff rock wise some found locally and some from some of the mines I've been too.
Not sure if we found any flint but maybe some chert lol
Also ye sphere machines are easy to make I made one this summer to fool around with
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Ye I found that out when I threw my first rock in lol and it keep spitting it out. Also made some funky shapes lol.
the more symmetrical the better for the preform lol
