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Mounting Techniques Continued
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by Phil Betancourt, Merrick, New York, (609) 234-8284
E-mail: betancrt@mosquito.com
From the Mineral Mite, Newsletter of The Micromineralogists of the
National Capital Area, Washington, D. C February 1997

The fine article by Paul Smith in the December 1996 Mineral Mite described a pair of techniques for the use of a side-mounted crank for viewing a micromount on all sides (what I call a "Sidewinder Mount" with an apology to a few snakes I have known). I can add a variant of this technique that has the advantage of a smoothly turning crank without any wobble with a minimum of visible apparatus inside of the box. I use a round-sectioned toothpick of the type that is tapered at each end. A hole is drilled in the side of a black plastic box using a drill that makes a hole with a larger diameter than the end of the toothpick but a smaller diameter than its widest part. A section of the black, reed toothpick is inserted through the hole from the inside of the box so that its point is on the outside. A section of black cork is used as a knob for turning by sticking ,he end of the toothpick in it, with cement to make the bond tight and permanent. The trick is to make the device so the toothpick inside the box will rotate freely but net so freely as to wobble. The mineral then has to be glued to the end of the toothpick, inside the box, while the box is held sideways. The result is that only the mineral and the thin axle of the toothpick are inside the box, and the cork knob allows the specimen to be turned easily and smoothly.

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