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RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 9/20/2004 1:37:17 PM    dpbottleman   Posts: 10 Joined: 9/20/2004 From: Texas Status: offline I fill my bottle a little over half full of copper pills, add 2 level spoons of tumbling powder, and water until its about 3/4" over the copper. Put bottle in clear canister, add copper to about 1/2 to 3/4 over bottle, add 2 spoons of powder, add water until about 3/4" over copper, and tumble at 55 rpm for 2 days, inspect, and if needs more, tumble for 2 more days. I tuble hutch, twitchell, baltimore loop, and crown tops, and all are from 2 to 4 days. I yuse a rock tumbling powder I get from Ft Worth, Texas for about $5.00 a lb. I DO NOT USE ANY PRE-CLEANING POWDER, JUST THE POLISHING POWDER, AND THE RESULTS ARE FANTASTIC. See pis if it up loads, if not email me and I will send pics, and also give the Co. and ph no where I buy my rock tumbling powder, thanx, Doyle (in reply to RngrXlt1) Post #: 21

RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 9/20/2004 1:41:33 PM    dpbottleman   Posts: 10 Joined: 9/20/2004 From: Texas Status: offline P.S. my email is dpbottleman@yahoo.com 2 pics of before and after. Attachment (1) (in reply to dpbottleman) Post #: 22

RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 9/20/2004 1:42:49 PM    dpbottleman   Posts: 10 Joined: 9/20/2004 From: Texas Status: offline This is pic of before tumbling. Attachment (1) (in reply to dpbottleman) Post #: 23

RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 12/25/2004 6:55:56 AM    idigjars Posts: 1340 Joined: 12/24/2004 From: Michigan Status: offline Nice before and after pics. (in reply to dpbottleman) Post #: 24

RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 1/29/2006 9:02:30 PM    walkingstick Posts: 311 Joined: 1/28/2006 From: World Wide (presently Bemidji, MN Status: offline Digger Odell sells plans for bottle tumblers so you can build your own. Try this link. http://www.bottlebooks.com/cleaned.htm _____________________________ Wil Grolsch bottles ... oh yeah, I know them well. They are for bottling homebrew ... aren't they? Photographer, homebrewer and meade maker for barter purposes (in reply to dpbottleman) Post #: 25

RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 1/29/2006 10:18:28 PM    tombstone   Posts: 124 Joined: 12/21/2005 From: wv Status: offline Two twelve inch pulleys off a 1725 rpm motor will turn too slow (if at all). Don't know how your friend calculated but there is a calculator for this at http://www.csgnetwork.com/pulleybeltcalc.html Don't forget the the final calculation, your 5/8 rod driving a 4 inch canister. Tumbler I'm working on uses a 1.5 inch pulley to a 10 inch pulley mounted on a 5/8 drive rod covered by plastic tubing which makes the rod about one inch. It turns an empty 4 inch canister at about 40 rpm. From what I've read here that is a little too fast for the small bottles and a little too slow for the big ones, but that just means it will take a bit longer to get the results i want. (in reply to RngrXlt1) Post #: 26

RE: Want to Build My Own Tumbler! Please Help! - 1/29/2006 10:21:38 PM    tombstone   Posts: 124 Joined: 12/21/2005 From: wv Status: offline I should add that this is my first tumbler, I'd never even heard of one till i read about it on this board a couple months back, so don't take anything I say on the subject as being anything more than my opinion based on limited experience. (in reply to dpbottleman) Post #: 27

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