New Tumbler - Taggart 1500

[dinsdale]

Got together with my neighbour (Taggart) and put together the following with a 1/8 HP motor, Gearbox, Olive Drum, 4 Bearings, 2 Shafts , 2 rollers, 2 V Belts for traction assist, piece of lexan and some lumber. Almost all scrap.

The parts assembled. The black powder is off the v belts.

Olive Drum. Screws are holding small wooden paddles we added to increase the tumbling effect. The drum is very slick.

Brass and media in the drum. Notice the paddles.

Brass after 9 hours. Did 1200 easy, probably handle 1500 no problem. Assorted 9mm, .40, .45 as I wanted to test right away and sort after. Gpoing to try 4 hours next.

And finally, the tumbler in action. Click to go to Photobucket Video.




Very happy with results.
Next test will be a 4 hour run.

Then going to do some .223 brass.

Using a Mechanical timer to control duration of runs.
Run it while at work.

 

[stormbringer]

Dagny would be proud!

 

[yardie]

Little bit of duct tape in there and you'd have Red Green's seal of approval!

Well done!

 

[noneck180]

Nice..great ingenuity

 

[dudley2112]

time to see how much of my 223 brass this baby can handle

 

[Dmay]

Looks good!
I just made one very similar. I have a vibratory, but built a rotating one in order to use stainless steel media.....which I haven't recieved yet.
Have you given any thought to switching to SS?

 

[hillbillyreefer]

Where do I get olive barrels like that. I built a similar unit, and need some better jugs, the ones I have don't have enough traction when full, or not.

 

[Jarlath]

x2 on the olive barrels

 

[dinsdale]

Looks good!
I just made one very similar. I have a vibratory, but built a rotating one in order to use stainless steel media.....which I haven't recieved yet.
Have you given any thought to switching to SS?

Have been considering plastic or SS but am not sold yet.

Where do I get olive barrels like that. I built a similar unit, and need some better jugs, the ones I have don't have enough traction when full, or not.

Olive barrels free from local Italian Deli (DiRienzo's) or you can buy for $5 each at recycle like Cohen and Cohen's.

I had to put V-Belts on for Traction. The barrels are very slick.
To get the V-Belts to stay in place, I used a section of an old Motorcycle inner Tube.

So it goes : Barrel --> Inner Tube --> V-Belt
If the v-belt slide off, I will glue it to the inner tube.

 

[Jarlath]

I had to put V-Belts on for Traction. The barrels are very slick.
To get the V-Belts to stay in place, I used a section of an old Motorcycle inner Tube.

So it goes : Barrel --> Inner Tube --> V-Belt
If the v-belt slide off, I will glue it to the inner tube.

I was thinking you could use Skateboard/Hockey Tape instead of the inner tube/V-Belts. Worst case is that you run some coarse Sandpaper on the outside and remove the "slick" finish.

 

[OEM]

Olive barrels free from local Italian Deli (DiRienzo's) or you can buy for $5 each at recycle like Cohen and Cohen's.

I had to put V-Belts on for Traction. The barrels are very slick.
To get the V-Belts to stay in place, I used a section of an old Motorcycle inner Tube.

So it goes : Barrel --> Inner Tube --> V-Belt
If the v-belt slide off, I will glue it to the inner tube.

Very cool! I started on a project like this months ago, but it has stalled due to the twin problems of trying to find a suitable container as well as a gearing down method. Where did you source your gearbox from?

 

[woodyubet]

Hey Dinsdale....Good job on the tumbler....Small foot print.....Gets the job done...I love home brew engineering. I'd actually like to see a thread starded on home brew tumblers and other stuff as well.

 

[dinsdale]

I was thinking you could use Skateboard/Hockey Tape instead of the inner tube/V-Belts. Worst case is that you run some coarse Sandpaper on the outside and remove the "slick" finish.

Thought about trying that but the scuffed bit was still pretty slick.
Could work though. Scuff with course paper. clean with spirits and apply Skateboard tape. The advantage of the belts is it helps round out the handle area.

Very cool! I started on a project like this months ago, but it has stalled due to the twin problems of trying to find a suitable container as well as a gearing down method. Where did you source your gearbox from?

It was in my neighbours pile of useful stuff. It is 20:1. If I did not have that , I would have used Pulleys to lower the ratio.

Runs about 21 rpm or once every 3 seconds