Bottle Tumbling Tutorial - Cleaning your dug bottles
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2015
- Here is a quick tutorial regarding tumbling antique bottles. Knowing how to preserve and restore your dug bottles is part of Treasure Hunting and all bottle diggers should know.
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Enjoyable, interesting and informative.
"Somebody wiped their ass with it." Hilarious!
Hahahaha!
Tumble at 55 rpms and reuse the polishing compound by finding 5 or 6 bottles of the same ounce capacity, use a funnel and just pour it into the next bottle, start with the one with the worst stain and progress to the one with the least stain. It saves time and money. I've been doing it for 20 years.
+NCbottles I understand the logic. Thanks.
where do you get the polishing compound?
Marcus' muse The Jar Doctor
thanks
I was told the polish loses it's grit after 5 days or so which would be a 1 bottle turn. Is that incorrect?
MAGIC CLEANING OF BOTTLES - THANKS !!!!!
Thank you! So many people do not give the amount of cutting agent to add. Very useful.
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that was so cool I really liked how you did that
Very informative. Thanks for this!
excellent teaching video.
Omg. I cant even believe that. Amazing
thanks for this vid!
that works good !
I really need one of these
Thanks man I have a Jar Dr. setup and every time someone online asks me about it I link them to this video. 💯💪
Thank you!
great video
Thanks 👍
how are you cutting the copper? i tried the little jig ive seen on a few bottle forums,however i cannot get it to work properly.any chance youd make a copper cutting video?
Good informative video. I've recently came across a place that is overwhelmingly packing with old bottles and I'm gonna start the clean out. I want to make sure I have a good way to clean them out. Do you think vibratory polishers could work also with the kind of media you have? I have a large vibratory tumbler and might as well use it if it works.
Great finds well done
Thank you!
Really cool! You should watch coin searcher on his jar cleaning!
How much does it make your energy bill go
Up using the tumbler? I’ve heard a lot of people say they don’t use it because their bills go up a ton as you have to tumble one bottle for like 48 hours.
So the slurry doesn't plug your water lines and (or) plumbing up, as you wash it down the sink?
Great video by the way!
Nice work....I've been a collector since 1972 and professionally cleaning bottles since 1989....There's not many instructional videos out there....thanks for posting....and "Yes" the Warner's did look like someone wiped their butt with it....there's nothing worse than sick glass !
+Paul Dimarco Thank you Paul. I really enjoy preserving that old glass.
You're welcome...I've been preserving glass since the early 90's.....You can find me on facebook and I'm always posting my work facebook.com/paul.dimarco.3
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Does this work with square bottles too ? Does it just take longer and the abrasive doesn't roll around so nicely ?
Hey Dirtflicker just wanted to know if you used the polish compound or just the cutter compound or both. There very shinny, Beautiful job.......Thanks
For the copper bits, you just take 12ga. romex (for example) and take wire cutters and make thousands of cuts until you have a bucket full?
wow very cool, we are into metal detecting and have recently gotten into bottles, so thanks for the tutorial. I subbed ya and will check out more of your videos....Ron
Thank you ;) I have a new video coming out this week. Take care and good luck.
What tumbler do you happen to use? And do you you recommend me to get a cheap or expensive one?
How many grit is the jar doctor compound
That's a great demo of cleaning the old bottles with crud on them. How often do the bottles break at low speeds? Can you tumble jars and at the lower speed as well? Is there any stores you recommend for purchasing a tumbler?
Thanks and please keep posting your helpful hints on Utube!
+Bruce Young Yes, The tumbler is able to do jars. I purchased my machine from the Jardoctor. Thanks for watching!
I see this is from several years ago so I don't know if you'll see this, but I wondered how you close off the end of the tubes. I also wanted to ask about small triangular bottles. Someone online who tumbles bottles said you can't tumble a triangular bottle. Is that true? I have an Owl Drug Store blue poison bottle that's triangular and I would love to polish it up. Thanks.
Can Glass vases be tumbled?
i had a round botrom bottle that i cannot find. I am hoping the little 80 yr old lady with the resale shop didn't steal it from me, when i had my back turned...yes, this does happen. Anyway, I never even got to do the research on it, and wonder if you can link me to a resource on it's origin, and or possible value. Just subscribed, and liking your werk
do you fill the jar with copper and the holder half way up too?
Yes, fill both halfway with copper
where did you buy your bottle tumbler ?
can u tumbel a marbel bottel
does this tear up any paint or labeling on the bottle. I would really assume so. I can't find any method for effectively cleaning an old coke bottle that still has the paint on it
I have tumbled a few painted sodas on the outside. I was surprised it didn't take the paint off, but it didn't. Just do it for 10 hours and check it.
Now I'm intrigued! Question is, would you dare do this to a valuable dug bottle, as would be the case with valuable coins? Would the bottle loose any intrinsic value with this type of cleaning?
+gerald jernigan Bottle collectors are different than coin collectors, almost all bottle collectors want the bottles to shine like new.
What a great video =^_^= . Thanks for sharing
Ah the Warners Safe Cure . Still on my Wish List i'm afraid , and may possibly remain so . Uniess they Demolish more buildings on top of old Victorian Rubbish dumps in my town. .
Are they more 1870/80 ?
I have found bits here and there localy , but nothing as big as a Warners . Would you believe under the Village Green , and Packed under the pavement ( sidewalk ) not far away from the former . Possibly the oldest bottles in my collection if it's pre 1890's .
u got my vote steve wales uk
Excuse my ignorance but i didnt quite get the copper fill part. You said fill the BOTTLE half way with copper, then add water to half inch above the copper, then teaspoon of cutter. How much copper do you put outside the bottle in the pvc tube and how much water ? Thanks
It's the same on the outside, but the circumference is larger on the outside so you will need a tablespoon and a half or two tablespoons if you are tumbling large jars. Tumbling is polishing while taking the "sick layer" off the bottle. So on the outside it is the same:. Water 1/2 inch above but you need to double the oxide you choose to use to accommodate the larger circumference.
Awesome video! I have a spackle bucket full to the brim with sick bottles, some are pretty rare, too.
I'm planning on building my own tumbler, but I'm pondering what kind of motor to use. Any suggestions?
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. You should get a 1/3 HP, 1725 RPM, continuous-duty motor with automatic thermal protection. Best luck to you!
@@Dirtflicker Awesome, I've seen a few 1HP motors for pretty cheap on Fleabay, will have a look around though.
Someone suggested I use a motor from a breadmaker, but I dunno....
Many thanks 👍
I would not consider using a motor from a bread maker, I don't think it would last. 1/3 or 1/2 HP would be plenty. Best luck to you.
How many days would you polish the inside of a small 4" x 1 ¹/² " thin walled puff type bottle? It is a open pontil. I do not have any speed control so I run at around 60 rpm. I am using a pre-polish grit. There is very slight haze inside. The outside does not need tumbling.
Thanks Robert M.
Just make sure if you are tumbling anything other than round bottles you only tumble at 20-30 rpms or you risk breaking them.
@@Dirtflicker will do. Thanks. I actually run at 50 Rpm's, is that too much for a round bottle? Last question I promise. Thanks for the reply, Robert M.
Good info...mmmkay?
I've just learned that it takes value away by cleaning it. That's if you intend to sell. If not who cares what I just wrote, lol But what if there are embossed lettering on the bottle that has to damage it?????
Hi there! I’m trying to buy my husband a bottle tumbler for Christmas.. did you get this machine from the Jar Doctor site? I have no idea what I’m doing lol
Yes...Jar Doctor aka Wayne Lowrey. He is a great guy. Not sure if he still sells them or not but check out his website.
That’s a great technique! To me it absolutely saves a bottle. Nobody in their right mind wants a sick bottle unless it’s an ancient black glass onion bottle. 🇬🇧
I'm in the process of building a tumbler, just looking for an appropriate motor.
I've got a spackle bucket full of really nice (some rare ones, too) but sick glass bottles. Hopefully will get them spotless! 👍
i have plenty of sick glass. guess im not in my right mind. LOL
It appeared it took 6 seconds to turn 10 times counting the white spot on the left
Thats 60 rpm. Am I missing something?
It depends on the motor. I may have had a different motor on during filming. Thanks for the attention to detail.
@@Dirtflicker
Not trying to just point out errors just learn how to clean my bottles.
Thanks for taking the time to make and post your videos. 👍
thanks for the demonstration. was it a machine you bought or made
DDM Metal Detectives I purchased this machine back in 2006 from The Jar Doctor. You can build your own but I found it to be more of a pain than it's worth.
thanks that was what I was concidering. I'm pretty new to this but love metal detecting and bottle hunting and am glad there are so many good people out there like you to help learn the way.
The Treasure Hunting community is the best out there hands down. I enjoy putting educational content in my videos to help others. Thanks for the kind words.
nice video man. were on earth do you get a tumbler lol I need one.
+bostonandmainedigger Check out the Jardoctor's website. I am pretty sure he still sells them.
+Dirtflicker OK thanks
Great video. Are you using 1200 grit for your cutter?
Yes...if their really bad I use 1200, however, they make a 1500 now that breaks down to a polish that also works quite well.
Can you recommend a bottle tumbler dealer?
I purchase all my bottle tumbling gear from the Jar Doctor. I am not sure if he is still selling equipment but he's a great guy!
@@Dirtflicker I'll look him up on the internet..thanks
hope that sinks drain goes to its own cleanable cistern just a few feet away
Interesting stuff - Just shows that you really can teach an old dog a new trick here! New to me anyway - LOL q;>})
+Don Veeser Thank you sir.
Why don't you just just use brass BBs instead of cut copper?
BBs are copper coated steel. Steel is bad for glass and you want edges to the copper not round.
Unless you did it on purpose you may want to enlarger the space between the L and the I in the intro with your screen name. I have the same problem on a drawing of a part called a FLICKER bar
hurry up and put up some more vids.
I am working on a few now :) Been real busy!