From owner-rockhounds-digest@drizzle.com Sat Sep 8 10:11:08 2001 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:49:01 -0700 From: rockhounds-digest Reply-To: rockhounds@drizzle.com To: rockhounds-digest@drizzle.com Subject: rockhounds-digest V1 #945 rockhounds-digest Monday, July 9 2001 Volume 01 : Number 945 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:48:23 EDT From: MinPhoto@aol.com Subject: Re: special equipment for making thin sections? I agree almost completely with Aaron's method, except when I was doing it, we didn't use a vacuum. Basically, we used our best judgement and fingers to evenly grind a slide down to the required thickness, checking different portions of the slide in the microscope until desired quartz or calcite interference colors were observed. This is definitely an art, and I am afraid a soon to be lost art. At one point, I was suitably proficient to make an presentable thin section, by hand, out of talc! One interesting side effect of making thin sections by hand is the resultant very smooth fingers and inability to pick up smooth objects, such as a glass of beer, after a hard day of making sections! Have fun, Jeff ------------------------------ End of rockhounds-digest V1 #945 ******************************** ################################################################# # To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Rockhoundz List, send mail # # to with the following keys: # # subscribe rockhounds (or) unsubscribe rockhounds # # rockhounds@drizzle.com | http://callisto.golder.com/rockhoundz# #################################################################