The BATT™ is the standard for tin alloy laps. With more than 5,000 sold, it has established itself in Commerce and Competition time and again.

A SOLID cast tin alloy lap, with two usable sides, it sells for as much as 50% less than many commercial rolled tin laminated laps.

Why?

Why not?

Gearloose Lapidary does not have a Learjet. It doesn't even have a Piper Tomahawk.

A small business can move faster, innovate faster, and run leaner. It has no stockholders, does not pay dividends, and pays cash for raw materials. There is no one to tell it that it cannot spend 10% of Gross Sales on Product Development.


A BATT™ lap charged with 3,000 diamond (Or 8,000) provides a perfect pre-polish after cutting with 600, with a surface good enough to allow subsequent polishing in record time, on stones from Fluorite to Sapphire. A BATT™ lap charged with 50K or finer, or an oxide/ Darkside for the quartzes, promptly finishes the stone.

Retail Prices for CAST BATT™ products:

NEW PRICE SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE 1 MARCH 2009:

New prices:______________________________________ MSRP

BATT™ 6" ___________________________________ 78.00

BATT™ 8" ___________________________________ 110.00

BA5T™ 8" _____________________________________ 177.00

BA5T™ 6" Now available!________________________ $115.00

BATTWING™ 8"_________________________________ $160.00

New: "Baby Battwing, 6"________________________ $112.00

New: "Girdla", Specialty Girdling Dual Lap____________________________$84.00

DARKSIDE™ 8" Free shipping to US Addresses!___ $85.00

DARKSIDE™ 6" Free shipping to US Addresses!____ $65.00

DARKSIDE™ PRO Double thickness_Free shipping to US Addresses!________$135.00


The "DARKSIDE": $85.00 Shipping included.


BATT™ DEVELOPMENT-Past, Present, Future.


BATT™ alloy laps are now used by thousands of gemcutters. .

Because they are solid castings, they may be resurfaced many times, to provide years of use!




Comparative Hardnesses of some lap alloys:

ALLOY__________Hardness, Brinell:

Pure Tin___________ 5.3

63:37 Tin/Lead solder:__14

95/5__________________14

Britannia Pewter_____22.5

Sn die cast YC135A___29

BATT™________________32.5

Commercial Rolled Zinc____43




BAT5T™: FASTER/HARDER/FINER


BATTs CUT FLAT FACETS!

PROOF HERE!

Thanks to Tom Herbst for interferometry testing and permission to reprint!


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