Heck with all the (already present) flaws, look at that shine! These are bone dry! There were also a few different not-already-fissured stones in there too, they came out just as shiny and undamaged, so I'm concluding that this is as good as my material can get. This was in a UV-45, run about 3 days each steps 2, 3, and 4
These are dry 😁😁🤠😁😁
I'm starting not to mind all the imperfections so much anymore 😍
These are dry 😁😁 I only have enough stage 4 grit for one round left, so I'm going to run these again after meticulously cleaning the bowl and picking out any broken stones and chips. This stuff has so many cracks and fissures that there are always a lot...
It's on my bucket list to get there one day, to at least pick through the tailing piles at the Coleman mine... I'm sure we've all seen the videos of those guys pulling perfect quartz points out of the mud that are as big as your head...
But are there any here in that area that have found stuff like that in your own or someone you know's land? Long ago I saw some youTube videos of this guy in Arkansas pulling absolutely perfect, beautiful water clear points with green inclusions at the bottom and golden rutile threads in the middle out of a deep pit/cave on his land. They had to put up with mosquitos dense enough that you could see them on camera, and keep a water pump / generator going to get down in the hole (it looked dangerous AF) but he and his buddy were pulling racks of this stuff out of there. It made me so jealous...
This is from about 2 hours of digging, after a 500 yard hike of pretty much all potential ankle-twisting terrain
So I decided against all things financially wise to suck it up and buy a new bowl for my Ultra-Vibe 45 and give things another shot. I did score the thing for $75 on FB marketplace somehow, so I'm still well under the price of even a medium sized one in total investment. I blew out the original bowl with too much step one tumbling of very rough/too big stones, despite all the cautionary advice I'd read about the danger of it. This time around I plan to use my janky homemade 5gallon rotary monstrosity to at least knock down the pointy corners and rough surfaces before anything sees the vibratory. Tumbling was fun even though moving around that huge bowl and rinsing its contents definitely felt like work, it was very satisfying... Hopefully I can get better results than I did after my first and only 'finished' round of tumbling :D :D :D
So we've probably all had the disappointment of adding an extra quantity of something to our cart to have it somehow ruin our meticulously assembled strategic same-warehouse grouping of parts... I suppose this is understandable, maybe the one warehouse doesn't have the quantity you need.
How about adding extra quantity somehow making formerly multiple warehouse items suddenly combine into one? More items, less warehouses. WTF RockAuto? I'm not complaining in this situation, but I've been more disappointed than not, likely so have others. Is this some kind of glitch that can be fixed? I've already placed this order, so no takey-backsies 😛
Oh yeah, so not only did adding another gasket change this into a one-warehouse shipment, IT MADE IT A DAY FASTER SHIPPING (so they claim). That's the most confusing part of it all.
I can find extreme examples of shipping costs/time too... 10.99 for next day aint too shabby
The gazebo part is about 3 stories off the ground. The main beams are 8x8 I think, maybe 10x10
So is sitting on top of a rock the only thing preventing failure? Yes there's a hot tub on it. And the house. This is the only one *this* bad, it's right in the path where rainwater collects and runs under the structure. Everything was built in the 80's (sorry for the lousy pics)
Somebody told me they took this while at work, that this is some guys installing gloFiber across the street, about a year or so ago. The dude on the cable looks like some stock image for somebody working on a skyscraper or something. AI? Photoshop? I donno. Seems too ridiculous to be real.
Ordered on Sunday, arrived Tuesday. Box in tact and stuffed tight with stuffing - heavy parts' boxes undamaged, same for the other parts. No magnet... still pleased overall.
I really, really like the Mexican rounds, but I have to say my favorite are the French Hercules coins. I have one of each type. The older 3 are silver but the Euro coin is not, but I had to get one of those too, of course :)
But it turned out I'm just a dummy (not really, this can happen to anyone....)
I ordered a rear brake hose for my truck, went to put it on and the right side brake line would not thread in... I tried fitting it into the old one (In case it got messed up removing it somehow) and it went right in. Then I noticed that the hole in the hose end was clearly larger then the end on the line... I noticed that there are different hoses for 4x4 vs 2wd... So I started preparing for the grievance, I figured I'd take a picture of the old hose next to the new one - and like magic, both holes in the end of the hoses are the same. What. Turns out the right and left side are two different sizes (same tool size, different fitting size) and I was trying to install it upside down. To my defense, the bend in the new hose would make one think that I was installing it the right way, and I'd never think there would be two different sizes... I've been fixing cars for a living for 20 years too , and have installed many rear brake hoses on old RWD Fords... I've owned 6 vehicles that fit that category too FFS. Oh well, at least I figured it out before making an ass of myself!
(the pic is just show-and-tell for my second trip of the day )
First time I went to this new scrap yard I was pleased to see I got significantly more for the two brake rotors and fireplace log holder than my other iron ( I had a little of everything so It all got weighed inside)... The next time I went I had a lot more of that kind of stuff, including bigger rotors, thick sway bars, solid axle shafts with the studs removed, steering knuckles stripped bare, some crazy heavy large pipe flange bases, bare V8 cylinder heads. This was just a load of iron this time because I couldn't fit everything in one trip - I mentioned this when I got there, showed them I had all the good stuff together ready to easily pull out, but they had me just dump it all in the shred pile. I still got 120 bucks for everything but I would have kept some of that if I had known... Some of it was usable stuff for a car project that I was 'probably' never going to do, a car not popular enough to bother trying to sell the parts to someone else... Was the guy just in a better mood the first time? They weren't busy. Same guy working, I was in the same truck, maybe a month between trips.
When I showed back up an hour later with $270 worth of non-ferrous they looked kinda surprised/concerned to see me again at first, like they thought I came back to complain lol... this pic was most of the second trip (not the storm doors)
Originally I was just going to post the one pic and come up with something witty about a free disposable creeper, but decided to up it to my overall thoughts/experience with them. As you can see, I've ordered many times from them (the side of the fridge is about 1/3 covered too) and have never regretted it. They definitely can be a bit sparse on the packing material and maybe every 5th order doesn't get a magnet, but I've ordered just about every type of part they offer with good results. Shipping prices are fair, they usually arrive in good time, my last order got to me in two literal days using the cheapest shipping (ordered Monday morning, got it Wednesday afternoon). The one time FeEx dropped my order at my neighbor's house and his dogs ate most of it, they sent replacements for everything I felt wasn't salvageable (I provided photos of the damage). They honored the manufacturer's lifetime warranty on a window regulator w/motor twice over a period of 5 years, I only had to pay shipping. The only time I felt like I got a bunk part was a new Bosh starter motor on super closeout for $20... The first one I bought was going strong for almost a year strong, and I have two vehicles that use the same starter, so I bought two more. The first one went bad a few months later, the second one didn't last two months, and the 3rd was somewhere in between. I guess that's why both the original supplier and then RockAuto wanted to get rid of them so badly... I do try to avoid the absolute cheapest option and brands I've never heard of though. The price on even their regular inventory has always been the best to be found, even considering shipping, except a few times it was close enough that I opted to get the occasional gasket sooner from a local store.
I figure just like with reviews for most things in life, you find more people putting in the effort to complain than people singing praises, so if you're on the fence about it, don't hesitate to give them a try...!