tumblers,post pic's of your homemade one's
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im thinking of building one out of this,its build sturdy as hell...i,ll bet it would make a good tumbler...
also use the search and look up foginator for another
Sure thing:
I have since replaced the drum with a 2Gal cooler from Walmart, a lot sturdier than those weight gainer jars.
Running with round stainless steel media, the results are pretty decent:
Here's a video, sorry for sh*t quality:
http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/shafror/Brass%20Tumbling/?action=view¤t=MVI_1123.flv
I have since replaced the drum with a 2Gal cooler from Walmart, a lot sturdier than those weight gainer jars.
Running with round stainless steel media, the results are pretty decent:
Here's a video, sorry for sh*t quality:
http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/shafror/Brass%20Tumbling/?action=view¤t=MVI_1123.flv
Sure thing:
I have since replaced the drum with a 2Gal cooler from Walmart, a lot sturdier than those weight gainer jars.
Running with round stainless steel media, the results are pretty decent:
Here's a video, sorry for sh*t quality:
http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff229/shafror/Brass%20Tumbling/?action=view¤t=MVI_1123.flv
could we see some pic's from the other end?i just picked up a tread mill for $45 so i'm thinking of how i wanna do this
1. The 120V motor is from a dead heavy-duty copier, about 1rpm. I think you have it solved with a treadmill motor. I find mine running too hot for my liking, so I put it on a timer: 15min on/15min off. I also have a 24V fan cooling the motor off constantly. I run the timer & fan off a 24V transformer. The hook is JB-welded to shaft coupling, drilled and tapped for a retaining screw.
2. A better view of the motor/timer/fan. I didn't mean to over-engineer, I just had parts lying around. The total tumbling time is under 3Hrs.
3. Coupling motor to the drum: my way of giving the rotating drum some slack:
HTH.
2. A better view of the motor/timer/fan. I didn't mean to over-engineer, I just had parts lying around.
The total tumbling time is under 3Hrs.
3. Coupling motor to the drum: my way of giving the rotating drum some slack:
HTH.
Johnn Peterson
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1. The 120V motor is from a dead heavy-duty copier, about 1rpm. I think you have it solved with a treadmill motor. I find mine running too hot for my liking, so I put it on a timer: 15min on/15min off. I also have a 24V fan cooling the motor off constantly. I run the timer & fan off a 24V transformer. The hook is JB-welded to shaft coupling, drilled and tapped for a retaining screw.
2. A better view of the motor/timer/fan. I didn't mean to over-engineer, I just had parts lying around.
3. Coupling motor to the drum: my way of giving the rotating drum some slack:
HTH.
I cheated
and took the easy route and bought an RCBS Sidewinder but congrats on a great looking set up. Well done!! A quick question, did you put anything in the way of ribs on the inside of your drum to promote tumbling of the brass and media? The reason I ask is the interior of the drum on my sidewinder has a flat spot profile for that reason.I had 4 aluminium ribs riveted inside my original drum, the one made out of a weight gainer jar. The rivets eventually begun to leak... I have no ribs in the current drum & found it makes little difference: the drum rotates at about 60rpm, i.e. fast enough to cause the load tumble onto itself instead of sliding. I'm sure having those ribs helps, I just didn't feel the difference would warrant the extra time to tinker with it.I cheated
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Chemainus B.C.
Thanks for the info and your experience. Very helpful and I'll pass that on to a buddy who's thinking of building one. Again, your set up looks pretty good. Good job
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heres the "foginator"......motor and speed controls were taken from a tread mill..
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t=101_0839.flv
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t=101_0839.flv
Thanks. After 3 tries, even I was able to make it work.Thanks for the info and your experience. Very helpful and I'll pass that on to a buddy who's thinking of building one. Again, your set up looks pretty good. Good job
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- St. Paul AB
One guy I used to shoot handgun silhouette with secured 5 gallon pails to his tractor tires and tumbled his brass while doing field work. But I'm guessing that won't be feasable.
Here is mine.
Here is what I call mumbler = m+(t)umbler. The only thing I paid for was the motor ($3), all other parts were taken from scrap. It can clean about 100 handgun cases or 40 30-06 cases at a time. Its great advantage is that it makes no noise and can turn several days with no problems. Once I forgot it for a week. With a special box, I use it to dry my cases after ultrasonic cleaning.
Here is what I call mumbler = m
+(t)umbler. The only thing I paid for was the motor ($3), all other parts were taken from scrap. It can clean about 100 handgun cases or 40 30-06 cases at a time. Its great advantage is that it makes no noise and can turn several days with no problems. Once I forgot it for a week. With a special box, I use it to dry my cases after ultrasonic cleaning.
Here is what I call mumbler = m
plain and simple.......and it gets the job done
...well done
deadeyes40
CGN Regular
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- nova scotia
we built one for tumbling our wheel weights before melting.it was built using an eletric motor a couple of rubber rollers with a v bult pulley on one of them and an atv tire with holes cut in the face tread with screen over them for the dirt to fall out.a couple of pieces of plywod to cover the rim holes in the center of tire and depending on motor size and the pulley ratio you can tumble up to 20 pound of weights.
