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Tumbler Trials & Tribulations
foozer:
Toaster Oven, thats the ticket. Looking over the fishing jig method where the part is heated then dipped into a puffy powder source air pot.
Karnack sees a BIG mess coming up :) Just thought (and therein begins the trouble) that on small pieces it might be doable. It needs to warm up around here a bit tho, 25f is just a bit to chilly for my taste.
Robert
1hand:
Still -10F at 10am here.
foozer:
That temp there wont be much reading done in the outhouse :ddb:
Robert
1hand:
Recieved some odds and ends today. Got 5lbs of steel shot 5/32. I mixed that some ceramic media and run that dryin the rotary for about 2 hrs .
I pulled open the cover and found the all splined pieces of AL where indeed deburred, and covered in a black sticky film.
I also recieved the 5/32" SS shot and burnishing compound from Rio. Its very sad day when you dump $200 worth of SS in a vibratory tumbler and it doesn't fill it half full. :scratch:
Stuff so heavy that enough SS shot to cover the parts will not vibe enough to move parts at all. So it looks like this step will continue in the rotary. The burnishing compound mix with water, has the same slippery feel of soapy water.
I still haven't got the SS pins yet, but will report back with the SS shot results after some time in the rotary. :coffee:
Matt
foozer:
Stone Axe and Flint Knives
Hmm piece too large to debur in rotary, plus its occupied trying to polish up another piece, what to do, what to do? Even makes me chuckle a bit. Round and round she goes, in a few hours I'll know.
Robert
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