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Gadgets, Gizmos, and Dohickeys => Fixing, Modifying and Refurbishing your Lapidary Equipment => Topic started by: Phishisgroovin on September 13, 2014, 05:50:09 PM
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My saw spilled oil on my patio for the last time today. Just picked up this old beast of an auto feed saw today with a twenty inch blade and a used sixteen for $350 from the rock shop.
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My phone won't paste a link right now. Photos later.
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(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r5/washingtonfishingfools/slab%20saw/IMG_20140913_174421_zpsssea3xbx.jpg) (http://s140.photobucket.com/user/washingtonfishingfools/media/slab%20saw/IMG_20140913_174421_zpsssea3xbx.jpg.html)
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Wow very nice and a great deal congrates.
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Selling the old beat up sixteen now for $200
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wowser!!! looks like you got a smoking deal :headbang:
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Need to replace the drain, oh well. Good thing im a plumber too. Want a ball valve drain anyhow. $78 poorer now too after 4 halos of mineral oil.
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installed a new bung hole in it today.
Now to cross fingers that i no longer have oil dripping on my patio.
Got 4 gallons of oil today, have to wait until next pay period for four more.
Think i will buy a couple or three 1 foot by 1 foot patio blocks and throw them in it flat to take up space.
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Great fix hope it holds for you :icon_thumright:
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a few bricks in the bottom of the sump should do the trick, no use the oil sitting there doing nothing :) looks like it's good to go.
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I got four gallons of fresh oil. Supposedly takes eight..
Bricks should raise the level so less oils are needed.
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Have to let that sealant cure 72 hours.
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is that some sort of metallized epoxy?
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is that some sort of metallized epoxy?
rubberized spray on undercoating. It's a trial
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If that doesn't work you could try an rtv silicone it's what you use for making gaskets in automotive type applications . So it won't get eaten by oil.
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looking like so far so good on the drain, one more day curing and i dump 4 gallons of oil in it for another test (to see if my lovely patio gets oil on it while sitting).
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When you know how to fix equipment it can save you lots of money. I struggle with the equipment maintenance part of lapidary. Trial and error and of coarse advice from the forum. It has saved me many a dollar.
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My whole thing is lack of funds for new purty stuff. But I'm good at fixing.
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Its killing me, wife wont let me use our walkway bricks i kept from the house next door when they removed them and went to toss em.
one foot squares, they would work perfect and i can cut with 4 gallons rather than 8. need four more gallons (or more who knows yet)
i want to CUT.
something about seeing into a rock, knowing I am the very first human to EVER look inside it.
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throw in some plastic milk jugs full of water; the oil will want to float so they should sink.
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Set in its new home.
Poured in four gallons of fresh oil, think i need four more atleast even with the bricks (12x5x1) taking up space on the opposite side of the blade..
I need to pour in atleast three more gallons to be safe.
I really want to try it out, but not wanting to run it with the oil low, im not taking a chance messing it up.
Patience is a virtue.
Will purchase some more oil after pay day and fire it up. maybe even rewire it before i get electrocuted in the rain cutting.
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THIS THING CUTS AMAZING CUTS!
SOOOO QUIET!!!!!!!
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Aint it nice when things work out. Now come over to my house , pick up a bucket of stones and slice them up for me. I need them by Monday.
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blewett tomorrow
and we are dredging in YOUR dredging hole.
actually, i have no clue where you dredge lol!
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glad you got the beast fired up and it cuts so well!!
I guess that anyone that comes to visit will know where to find you LOL
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Get that bucket sliced up and I just might show you where good gold is up there. ( there are those who know, I do know where to find gold at Blewett ). But unlike some leprechauns who give out advise freely, I do have a fee. But again, it's nice to know your saw is performing so nicely. . maybe you would like to test it out on some of my stones before you take chances with yours though. Just a thought.