Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jim Wilkins" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Re: cordless tool 18V to 12V converter Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 11:10:48 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:11:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e0d3aa6049e45834cb982e9fe1477394"; logging-data="1890113"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ibqaL5FvlFlpxP20m4bHFvUwquk7coOQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:y1NXUa4W3nby0BmDQ5F8jgYpprQ= X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3505.912 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3505.912 Importance: Normal X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240301-2, 3/1/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2775 X-Original-Lines: 1 "Richard Smith" wrote in message news:m1frx0reyj.fsf@void.com... "Jim Wilkins" writes: > > The only way I've seen was with the hydraulic jackhammer on an > excavator, and it could take perhaps an hour to crack a large granite > boulder left from blasting and meant for fill. They drilled to blast > but not to break up the rubble. So you saw unusable stone - for some reason - shape, flaws, etc.? - which they had to break-up? ------------------------------ That was at a construction site where they were smoothing very uneven terrain enough to build houses on. They blasted the ridges to fill in the gulleys and named the development in memory of what they had destroyed. A machine like this crushed much of the rubble to gravel, sharp-edged like you want instead of the glacial-runoff-smoothed gravel in the ground here. https://www.quarrymagazine.com/2020/03/19/selecting-the-right-crusher-for-your-operations/ The relatively little flat land here is mostly already developed. New Hampshire is the "Granite State" for good reason, it somewhat resembles the Scottish Highlands, even to the caber tossing. https://nhscot.org/highland-games-nh/ Notice the background mountains. The site is a ski resort.