[ale] 'Rocks' was: RHEL-6.1 system with 4 CPU sockets and 1TB of memory

[Jim Kinney]

Nice pics!
It is an excellent puzzle even though it's a meteorwrong. That thing is
huge!. It'll take a rather large saw to cut in half. It may work to use
vertical band saw that can be liquid cooled. Will need to add a moving sled
to carry the slagrock. Harbor Freight has a handheld bandsaw for under
$100. It could slice edges. I'm not allowed in there without adult
supervision :-(
On Jan 15, 2012 8:20 AM, "William Bagwell" <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:

> Thanks, should have clarified just how huge my 'meteorwrong' is. (over 400
> pounds!) I need to find a small machine shop with a large horizontal band
> saw first, /then/ someone with a lapidary slicer. Assuming of course a
> full slice is as intersting looking as the two windows I have cut. If
> not, then game over:-( Since it is not a real meteorite and its only
> value is novelty, I need to be careful not to tie up a bunch of money I
> may never get back.
>
> Ah what the heck, here are a bunch of pictures.
> http://alt-config.net/rustyrock.html
>
> Did try to contact someone at the Georgia club, but it was too close to
> the holidays so I think he forgot about me. May try again. Or just show
> up at one of their meetings with a 400 pound boulder;)
> --
> William
>
> On Saturday 14 January 2012, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > You need to contact the Meteorite Association of Georgia as they have
> > or can get access to the slicer you need. Ginny would help but the gear
> > at GSU is broken (again) and they dept doesn't have the funds now to
> > repair/replace it. She would love to do it herself if the gear were
> > working.
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