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    Hello,

    I just read somewhere that you could use an acid treatment/ then heat to make your own aluminum oxide power. Then you can suspend it in wax to make a honing compound wax block.

    Well I'm not going to do that but what about suspending slurry dust or lapping dust in wax and use that for polishing? I'm going to try it later but i thought i'd ask you guys if anyones done it before

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    Interesting concept but the concerns I'd have with contamination and the relatively low cost of high purity compounds make it a no-brainer.

    Regardless...this thread interests me.
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    It would work, but I am not sure about using a wax base for it, other than beeswax. The lapping dust would work like whatever grit stone you used. Say 12k naniwa stropping compound; you basically use the dust from lapping your stones, strain it through cheese cloth and let it dry then pulvarize it, but slurry after honing will have metal shavings so I would pass on that, unless you meant the slurry from lapping your stone with say your DMT then collecting that run off. It would take alot I would think, but couldn't hurt to try. I would be sure to use distilled water doing it, so you don't get fluoride, and calcium, and lime dried into your slurry powder; not sure if it would hurt honestly, but I wouldn't take a chance since it's pretty cheap/gal for the stuff.
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    Interesting thought,
    but if the goal is to make a "honing compound wax block" from a hone's slurry; then why would you want to use/make a block of wax to hone on, when you can just hone on the block (hone) that you are taking the slurry from??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hirlau View Post
    Interesting thought,
    but if the goal is to make a "honing compound wax block" from a hone's slurry; then why would you want to use/make a block of wax to hone on, when you can just hone on the block (hone) that you are taking the slurry from??
    Yeah! That! I was trying to find words...............thx
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hirlau View Post
    Interesting thought,
    but if the goal is to make a "honing compound wax block" from a hone's slurry; then why would you want to use/make a block of wax to hone on, when you can just hone on the block (hone) that you are taking the slurry from??
    Not sure you grasped my meaning...Polishing compound not honing compound.

    I happen to have a lot of dust from a particular slate stone, which i was researching what to do with it.

    I've never had polishing compound before, is the block you rub on a buffing wheel like a soft wax with the little particles embedded inside?

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    OH! That Hirlau sidetracked me again! Yes, what you describe is polishing compound. Still, I think you would need a great quantity of slurry to make one?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 111Nathaniel View Post
    Not sure you grasped my meaning...Polishing compound not honing compound.

    I happen to have a lot of dust from a particular slate stone, which i was researching what to do with it.

    I've never had polishing compound before, is the block you rub on a buffing wheel like a soft wax with the little particles embedded inside?
    Oh,, got ya now, sorry,,,,carry on....

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    OH! That Hirlau sidetracked me again! Yes, what you describe is polishing compound. Still, I think you would need a great quantity of slurry to make one?

    This is kind of what I'm thinking. the stone to wax ratio would have to be pretty high. But I guess if you have a crap load of stone dust...

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    Hey,

    I have made some polishing compounds before using just powders (metal oxides), mixed into aqueous cream. It worked pretty well tbh BUT it wasn't half messy. On high rpm it flinged off the wheel, so I had to leave it to set in to the wheel.

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