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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by lesterperry</i> <br /><br />I use stone dust from local quarry. I go there with a 5 gallon bucket and it is free. It is also the real thing. It will have to be sifted and some say to run a magnet trough it but I don't. I have been doing this for 10 years and no metallic problems. The magnets in locomotives would have to be really strong to pick up metal from that distance plus it is glued down.[/quote] <br /> <br />I plan on doing the same. I bought a [url="http://www.thesciencesource.com/sresults.html?cart=11461675284351242"]<u>Set of Sieves</u>[/url] (search for SCREEN SIEVES #32910). I go by the [url="http://www.ballast-train.com/forms/scales-imperial.html"]<u>Sieve Screen Size Chart</u>[/url] to determine the screen mesh size to use for the size rock I want.
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