Wet Tumbling in Vibratory Tumblers

[Chrossphyre]

I'm looking at converting to wet tumbling with either stainless steel pin media or ceramic ball media. I have two vibratory tumblers, both Lyman. One is an older model 1200 with no Auto Flow or Sifter lid, the other is a newer 1200 Pro with Auto Flo. Can I use these to wet tumble? Will the media be too hard on the plastic bowls? Any other thoughts?

 

[667]

You'll vibratory bowl type tumbler won't work.
The weight of the stainless pins, water and brass is far to much.
As well... All that will happen if your tumbler actually has enough power to vibrate when full, is the heavy pins will settle in the bottom of the bowl and the brass will just dance on top.

 

[ted_dent]

The manufacturers usually have a warning against using wet media in a dry tumbler.

 

[islandkent]

On sort of the same subject. Can you dry tumble in a rotary FA?

 

[Chrossphyre]

Yeah, that's what I figured. Thanks for the responses gang. Conversion costs to go wet are about $300 for a decent rotary tumbler and I was hoping to cut that down some.

 

[little b]

if you want to go home made, I have found a couple of very simple and very effective set ups. If you interested, as it's the route I'll be going shortly myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXLq_9CW4c&list=PLtQuJ37Kn7t34WzA7nebrvrR-BMxMkP1x&index=2

 

[Chrossphyre]

if you want to go home made, I have found a couple of very simple and very effective set ups. If you interested, as it's the route I'll be going shortly myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXLq_9CW4c&list=PLtQuJ37Kn7t34WzA7nebrvrR-BMxMkP1x&index=2

Now that.....is awesome! Thanks little b! Good post!