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Jeff May

12-29-2002 05:54:17




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Anyone out here have any ideas for building a tumbler to clean and lightly polish old aluminum motor parts?
I would like to build one that will allow media and liquid to be used at the same time.
I was thinking of using a plastic 5 gal. bucket with the snap on lid.
Anybody ever build one and what is your opinion of them?
Thanks,
Jeff




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Vern-MI

12-30-2002 05:48:03




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
The one at the shop doesn't tumble. It is a heavy walled plastic chamber mounted on four springs and excited using a spinning unbalanced weight attached to the bottom of the chamber. The chamber is filled with stones and water can also be added. The top is clamped in place during the oscillation process. Does a nice job of removing sharp corners and quick also.



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Slowpoke

12-30-2002 01:04:11




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
Jeff... I'm currently working on a tumbler for gas tanks. I have a cement mixer, but decided it's too bulky, heavy and unwieldy to tie a gas tank to unless the drum is removed. I'm using an ac gearhead motor that was used for driving a pedal device for medical patients with leg movement problems. A 12" concrete cutting diamond wheel with two lengths Kindorf rails driven by a V belt will be the mounting plate. I guess I could mount some kind of drum to it to tumble other stuff. I know it will work for mixing cans of spray paint.

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Fred Pickering

12-29-2002 19:34:19




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
A ez way to make a tumbler is with an old tire. Hang the tire from a piece of 1" pipe with a bearing on both ends of the pipe, when turn the pipe with a 1750 1/4 hp motor. Tires come in all sizes.



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JDK

12-29-2002 16:48:21




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
Check around concrete sales/home supplys.There is a 5-6 gallon lite duty cement mixer for sakrete/mortar etc that uses a bucket for a tub.Fairly cheap as I recall,uses friction rollers to turn the tub,should work with any similar pail.Even without buyin it would give you a game plan.(Thats why I always got a throwaway camera in the truck)Doh!,I can do that cheaper!...lol



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T_Bone

12-29-2002 15:32:03




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
Hi Jeff,

Try a front loading cloths washing machine. Complete and ready to go.

T_Bone



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D3mike

12-29-2002 13:40:58




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
I know a commercial reloader that uses a cement mixer. I use a cement mixer to tumble my rusty fuel tanks with nails inside. Good luck,Mike



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Tom

12-29-2002 08:07:00




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 Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Jeff May, 12-29-2002 05:54:17  
I built one using a 5 gal plastic pail too. Mounted a reduction gear on a frame at an agnle so the pail would be at about a 25 degree angle when mounted on the output shaft of the reduction gear. Made a hub with a flange that adapted the pail to the red. gear and bolted it to the pail. Used it to tumble shell casings, will actually still do. I made a cover that keeps the dust in. You could use a liquid if you didn't use too much as the angle of the pail would keep it in. Or make a bolt on cover that is liquid tight.

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Mac

12-29-2002 09:25:24




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 Re: Re: Building a Tumbler in reply to Tom, 12-29-2002 08:07:00  
I had a decent sized D/C gearhead motor, could use a sprocket or pulley on output shaft. Came with a control box that plugged into 110, this transformed A/C to D/C. Had the on/off, forward/reverse and a dial type potentiameter that would allow you to choose a speed that you thought worked best. An overkill but I lucked out and got it FREE. I am a mizer and pack rat so I try to find a use for everything.

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