Coin tumbler....

ewemule · Jan 6, 2009

Got the motorized base from a color photo thingy. Looks like in order to make a genuine tumbler I'll need to caulk some fins inside a wide mouth (4") plastic jar to get the tumble effect. Anyone else make their own tumbler ? Tips ?
Better get caulkin' it'll need 12-24 hours to dry. Will take some low res

pics for a future post.
Marty

david blackstoc · Jan 6, 2009

Try this http://www.unitednuclear.com/ballmill.htm
http://tomaszewski.net/Kreigh/Minerals/Homemade.shtml
http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Homemade-Rock-Tumbler/
http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2007/...k-tumbler.html

kendallkirk · Jan 6, 2009

david blackstoc said:
Try this http://www.unitednuclear.com/ballmill.htm
http://tomaszewski.net/Kreigh/Minerals/Homemade.shtml
http://igor.chudov.com/projects/Homemade-Rock-Tumbler/
http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2007/...k-tumbler.html

Great links, thank you for sharing.

ewemule · Jan 7, 2009

Yes, thank you....

Very helpful. I found a plastic spaghetti sauce jar that works pretty well on my motor assembly. Will take 'er for a test run soon I hope. We've lot's of snow and am busy outdoors. I also notice that we have a couple electric motors lying around.

Marty

searcher64 · Jan 15, 2009

If you use ground up peanut shells, it will clean the metal up without sanding the surface off, as with sand. It's used to clean glass bottles too. :-)

ICE · Jan 15, 2009

You can just glue some rubber strips inside to get the tumbling effect. Ice

Coin tumbler....

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