Thread: Your opinions please !!

Unless one tries we will never know,
keep us posted, heck send one my way if you want I have a wife and three kids still at home I look for reasons to escape....

In another life I worked refractory construction, firebrick, plastic firebrick, poured refractory .. most or all had some asbestos in them. No idea what the tiles are, but maybe you could inquire at work (I am assuming that they were obtained with permission) as to the MSDS for them.

Originally Posted by GaryG

In another life I worked refractory construction, firebrick, plastic firebrick, poured refractory .. most or all had some asbestos in them. No idea what the tiles are, but maybe you could inquire at work (I am assuming that they were obtained with permission) as to the MSDS for them.

Yes with permission, when they change them out they just throw them away. Also our plant is now asbestos free. Thank you everyone for your opinions.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

5 hours of lapping a ceramic tile = No wife or girlfriend,,,,,

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Originally Posted by Hirlau

5 hours of lapping a ceramic tile = No wife or girlfriend,,,,,

My wife is my girlfriend, but she not wait for me to go to work so she would not here the sound of the lapping, and me grunting!!

it looks like an Aluminium Oxide tile, very wear resistant & hard as & can polish up with very little wear in Coal & Bauxite chutes over time

I keep one I got new from a job I was on many years ago about 6"x4"x1/2" in my tackle box for my sharpening my fishing knife & hooks
I don't think the grains are as uniformly sized either as a true hone.
I personally would not use it on my blades but I have not lapped it either, I bet that is a chore as they are made not to wear out

I also have a large 12"x8"x1" tile i have used to bring a dead axe back to life before the Norton 220/360 that looks like a very coarse carbodium but much lower grit than my Norton 220

Originally Posted by Hirlau

5 hours of lapping a ceramic tile = No wife or girlfriend,,,,,

Originally Posted by Substance

it looks like an Aluminium Oxide tile, very wear resistant & hard as & can polish up with very little wear in Coal & Bauxite chutes over time

I keep one I got new from a job I was on many years ago about 6"x4"x1/2" in my tackle box for my sharpening my fishing knife & hooks
I don't think the grains are as uniformly sized either as a true hone.
I personally would not use it on my blades but I have not lapped it either, I bet that is a chore as they are made not to wear out

I also have a large 12"x8"x1" tile i have used to bring a dead axe back to life before the Norton 220/360 that looks like a very coarse carbodium but much lower grit than my Norton 220

After I get it lapped I will try it on a GD razor, and I will use my microscope to check the edge. I just thought I would give it a try. You never know

Originally Posted by Hirlau

5 hours of lapping a ceramic tile = No wife or girlfriend,,,,,

Do you know how many times I'm next to my GF thinking about honing or something razor related? WAY TOO MUCH. The other day I got home with two flea market finds and couldn't touch them til the next day lest I get in huge trouble. I was dying a little on the inside.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

5 hours of lapping a ceramic tile = No wife or girlfriend,,,,,

Don't ask Hirlau how he knows this. Makes him a bit maudlin....

Originally Posted by Substance

it looks like an Aluminium Oxide tile, very wear resistant & hard as & can polish up with very little wear in Coal & Bauxite chutes over time

IIRC aluminum oxide is a strong abrasive used in sandpaper and in some barber hones ? I worked in nuclear power plants on shutdowns when I was a union ironworker. Also erected kilns, ball mills, precipitators in cement plants. Interesting work.

Good luck with that ceramic. The shaptons and naniwa super stones are ceramic IIRC. So if it turns out to be 20k you may be able to make enough $ off of them to retire early ......