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I would love a rock tumbler, but there's no naturally occurring rocks where I live.

Should be interesting to see how they come out.

Nice intro. Can't hear you over the machines. Maybe record a voiceover and dub it in avter filming the video? I'm going to use captioning to know what you're saying though.

Yes. an interesting tumble! Possibly Basalt?

Some nice, polished stones there. The faster tumbling speed is good for stage 1 to shape rough rocks, but you will probably be better to have a slower speed for subsequent stages (34 rpm?). It is impressive that you designed and built your own tumbler. A tip on setting up your barrel for tumbling, put water in before grit, that way, if you overfill with water by accident, it's easy to just pour a little out. Sound level of the intro and outro is a little better on this post!

Hell yes!!!

The Rock Shed is a great place to get your grit from. They also have a good selection of tumbling rough. I also get my ceramic media from them.

You got a great shine on that rose quartz. It was smart to use that stage 4 "polish" as a pre-polish and use Rock Shed 8000 grit polish as the true polish. Nicely done, I think for your first batch on that tumbler you built!

Here's a tip for you. The washer that is used on the barrels works really well at popping the lid. Just slip it between the lid and the rubber and give it a slight turn.

I noticed you didn't reuse the ceramics from stage 2 here. If you thoroughly wash the ceramics, they can move with the rocks through all stages of the tumble. Grit will not embed in the ceramics like it would with plastic pellets.

The ceramic media is good as a filler, but more importantly with quartz, it softens the collisions of the quartz stones, which can bruise somewhat easily. As much as 30% ceramic media is a good mix for tumbling quartz in the second and later stages.

Interesting that you went with a direct drive DC motor on this tumbler. Highland Park Lapidary has recently released what I believe to be the first commercially available direct drive, variable speed, DC motor driven tumblers. Getting rid of the AC motor and belts seems like a great idea. By the way, the 65 RPM seems a bit fast. You may want to tune that thing to 35 to 40 RPM or maybe compare to the Thumbler you have.

Looks pretty good! I got a cheap small shed off Amazon. Designed apparently and made in China. The number of tiny screws needed is simply ridiculous, actually ludicrous. Not even marks where the screws go, never mind being pre-tapped! Instructions (all pictures) have to be carefully reviewed and understood prior to each step. Very small shed (not a walk-in) and the manufacturer is recommending two people over a full day to put it together. Never again!! LOL!

Pretty well-done video. The intro and outro music are too loud though. You don't want to be busting the eardrums of your viewers :).

Put her in low gear for that size drill bit.

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Plenty of room to run.

merci à vous

c est quoi comme moteur merci à vous très bon travail

(Also there's no B in Thumler.)

Might have been worth replacing the bearings while you're at it.

Mine is also made in Taiwan. It’s a 1995 grizzly, the only thing it lacks as far as I’m concerned is a way to reverse the feed. I think I saw one of those machines that had a reversing lever and I wish I could build one for mine. Somehow or another I’d have to add a gear into the gear train for the feed and that will reverse it.

And how do you skin the side by the fence how you going to do that

Its gonna sink over time, 5-7 years

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"I want one!!!!

Lucky if it last a few years

Good way to rot the floor

Aren't you supposed to set it back a few feet from the property line ?

Personally I wouldn’t have it sitting on the ground.

Dude. Looks good, but take my advise and add a system of 2x8 joists over this. This will also sag over time.

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Awww bliss

You should see the other guy

I didnt know whether popcorn was ok for dogs ,until i dropped some went to pick it up ,my dog picked it up quicker than me 😂😂So i guess she likes pop corn 🍿 😅

Cute Dogs , my dog loves porncorn too😊

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That’s such an insightful video. Keep up the good work.

It was great

They should start a band

Such a boi, ooh he's such a boi. Good dog

That insert looks dull with the burr that's rolling over

Decent

we have a champion too!

Pat him to calm him down, would you?

What's everyone clapping 4? Did I miss it?

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Until recently I had one sold by Busy Bee Tools here in Canada that was just labelled “Busy Bee” before they adopted the Craftex label. Made in 1989 in Taiwan.

Great idea!

I wouldn’t say all are made in China. The Compact 8 was made in Austria for most of its run. I believe some of the latest versions were made in China though.