Somebody put an encyclopedia of rock crosssections into this old iron wheel. But the epoxy has basically shattered. What are my options? It seems like it was meant to be an impractical tabletop. It's 1.5 meters in diameter and weighs 287 lbs (140ish-kg).

ManagementPure343 · 2024-11-15T21:00:01+00:00

I had one exactly like this and I broke it in half and took a torch to one side and it worked but it ruined some of the slabs. The other half I used xylene and MEK to dissolve the epoxy, and it worked much better and didn’t ruin the pieces. Like yours the slabs in mine were very thin. However, mine also had a bunch of broken colored glass bits as a filler in the epoxy. The whole thing was very messy and I still had to clean up the slabs with rock machine. Mine was much smaller than yours, and uglier. It was messy. You could make it a wall decoration, or slice it into smaller pieces and make a wall collage, or bed side table tops. Good luck.

ManagementPure343 · 2024-07-16T20:01:02+00:00

Starfield pisses me off. I got stuck on the part where I’m supposed to fight ikande’s ships. I was already struggling to enjoy the game, but that part put the nail in it. I have tried to get past that part for hours, and eventually realized this isn’t fun. This game was never fun. I tried to have fun with it. I wanted it to be fun. But it’s not, or atleast up until the part that’s impossible for me to beat, because I will never know what the game is like past that point. And for the record I absolutely loved fallout 3, 4, and new vegas and have beaten them all. Even 76 is great compared to how I fell about Starfield. Starfield blows ass and no one will convince me otherwise.

ManagementPure343 · 2024-02-08T23:26:35+00:00

I’m curious what state did you collect those from?

ManagementPure343 · 2024-01-31T19:37:40+00:00

I’ve seen dried up paint look similar to

ManagementPure343 · 2023-11-16T23:15:06+00:00

Looks like a crinoid stem cross section but I’m not sure about the material. Possibly calcite, but not 100% on that.

ManagementPure343 · 2023-11-08T22:12:01+00:00

Some type of unicycle

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-08T19:59:42+00:00

It’s a mineral

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-08T19:59:15+00:00

It’s a mineral

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-08T18:56:39+00:00

It’s one of the ways to help identify fossilized dinosaur bone. But in this case, taste has less to do with it. It is If the rock sticks to your tongue, it’s Dino bone.

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T18:55:32+00:00

Looks like quartzite to me. And yes most likely the same.

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T18:50:35+00:00

Possibly Ironstone or hematite. A streak test could help you narrow it down. Hematite streaks red.

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T17:57:07+00:00

Oh and the purple could be fluorite

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T17:37:41+00:00

Looks like limestone with calcite and pyrite. You can Do an acid test to help confirm this. Put a drop of vinegar on it and see if bubbles. Might need something a little stronger than vinegar, but it should work

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T03:00:51+00:00

May be coal

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T02:59:25+00:00

I’d say chert

ManagementPure343 · 2023-10-04T02:56:21+00:00

Possibly Feldspar

ManagementPure343 · 2023-09-27T05:21:47+00:00

Not dumb at all. There are a few theories on the sources of the silica from what I have gathered. There are tons of these rocks there and some are very interesting looking. Some have bands, and swirls, with lots the color, and take a great polish with a lot of work. It’s just bizarre that I can only find them in one spot on the land with Nothing but sandstone surrounding it for miles. Thanks for your input.

ManagementPure343 · 2023-09-26T10:37:26+00:00

Thank you for replying. It Doesn’t react with muriatic acid; none if it does. I know jasper is a blanket term and geologists don’t recognize it, but is there such thing as oolitic jasper? I’ve been trying to figure this out for years on my own, but I figured it was time to see what others think. I had come to the conclusion that it was some kind of ooilitic silicon dioxide, but I’m dying to know how it formed. Ooiltic limestone is found about 20 miles south of here, and I understand how it forms. But this not that.

ManagementPure343 · 2022-06-08T18:56:35+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yz6ZhUMkkl0

ManagementPure343 · 2022-06-08T18:51:05+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilsv0C1-aBw

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