Glass beads for tumbling

[appliedtop]

Thought I would reply to the post about cutting copper. This is for anyone who wants to use copper and wants to cut their own. This is what I have made. I cut a piece of half inch pipe about 5 inches long and a smaller length piece about 3 inches. Cut a hole in the longer piece about 1/2" in diameter and weld the shorter one over the hole at a 45d angle. Then drill a small hole in the side of the longer piece, just big enough to easily slide wire into it. Then get a drill bit that fits fairly tightly into the pipe as shown and as fast as you can shove wire in it will cut it and spit it out. The slower you feed wire the smaller the pieces.
Beats the heck out of using pliers and you will have fingers at the end of the day.

 

[stinger haut]

Tombstone, yes your right about the glass beads being quieter than the copper. Especially when you turn up your rpm's to tumble round bottles.
Stinger Haut

 

[hemihampton]

I've tried the glass beads with no luck. The glass beads with Aluminum oxide polish frost's my glass. Has anybody else gotten a frosted glass problem using glass beads? LEON.