Guide to making petrographic thin sections

00:00 Creating billet
02:08 Lapping billet flat
06:20 Pre-epoxying billet
12:35 Epoxying to slide
15:56 Slabbing the section
17:54 Grinding to 30 microns
22:58 Trimming and labeling
23:27 Polishing section

[@hieres]

thx for sharing... where can i find this slabber?

[@brookelafferty1395]

What type of equipment did you use for each step of the process? I want to invest in equipment for processing my own thin sections in the future!

[@ciprianpopa1503]

Is this operated inside the University or is it operated inside of your private home?

[@micahwaynebrown]

What would be your estimated average time to completion of a thin section from raw sample to finished slide?

[@csteven5292]

For polished sections and including pre-epoxying I'd say it takes about 5.5 hrs total to finish a batch of 4 samples. Cure time is a large part of it too (1/2 hour to cure each time, for pre-epoxying and epoxying to slide). So a little over an hour for a single sample on average.

[@geoffgeoff143]

Lapadaries are laughing but you got there in the end.