Tumbling Before and After photos

[webe992]

First attempt at just tumbling the inside of drugstores. I’m happy with the before and after. Temple and Houston Texas

 

[hemihampton]

Ok, I’m in the right place. I need advice and possibly a shopping list. This keeps happening, where I tumble bottles for like 3 days with half the volume in copper, 1-2 tbs brown fused oxide (1200)- either from what I ordered and had on hand or the more white stuff listed as brown fused oxide 1200. Then I end up with a frosty mess like these. What do I do next?

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KAT, Did you ever try my advise? did it work? LEON.

 

[webe992]

Artesian from Waco, Texas/ StLouis Missouri. Quite a difference!

 

[webe992]

A rare one from Navasota Texas. Tumbling for a client. I think they will be pretty happy.

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

KAT, Did you ever try my advise? did it work? LEON.

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[Wildcat wrangler]

What a mess…. I had so much fighting me, to write that! It only took a dozen times! (I hope you can make sense of that.)


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[Wildcat wrangler]

KAT, Did you ever try my advise? did it work? LEON.

KAT, Did you ever try my advise? did it work? LEON.

I am so glad you said that! Another 6 days using copper and this:

Where did u Find 1800 AO? Because I have looked with no luck, yet. But I put the bottles that I showed u in.

They came out even blacker and uglier than when they went in…. I have to be doing something wrong? I was going to order these and some others- like a sampler pack and another roller setup.

Then they threw me with the jumping to microns- (I’m still working on grit numbers) so that’s a different thing to wrap my head around and try to integrate. I’m still working on the higher number grit = finer. Then I’m looking for something that says “1800 grit AO”. Where do you find that and who has the best price for a bucket of it?

What are your thoughts on silicon carbide? It cost a bit more but at this point, I don’t care! Here is the after pix:

With this black foamy mess, I keep thinking it must be the copper that it’s coming from . I did think it was coming from the rubber in some of my canisters from when I was making the hillbilly rock Tumbler do the work. But now I have the fancy clear canisters so that’s not it. Has anyone used the ceramic beads for polishing and would that come out less black? I am fighting this black mess all over everything and it doesn’t come out off even with a brass brush.

 

[hemihampton]

Yeah, I'm a little confused, sounds like you said you tumbled another 6 days with aluminum oxide but then you say you were thinking of ordering some aluminum oxide so I'm confused, do you got aluminum oxide? & did you tumble with aluminum oxide? As for the Black Residue, I've mentioned what I do about that many times in here, you must of missed that day? What I do is run to Hardware Store & Buy a gallon of Murautic Acid. I then get a 2 or 3 gallon plastic bucket & pour a small amount of Acid in there & then the rest is Water. The acid is very Strong High strength so need to Dilute it 75%-90%. Soak Bottle in there for a minute, no more then 5 minutes, Use Gloves. After a minute or 2 remove full bottle, pour half the acid back in, put thumb over top & shake acid around inside, Pour the rest back out, Rinse good with Water, If you got a Bottle Brush you can refill with Water & use Bottle Brush inside, this will help loosen/remove any Black Residue left in any small imperfection, you can lightly brush or scrub outside at this time, sometimes I use a old Tooth Brush to scrub outside to remove black residue in small imperfection. LEON.

 

[hemihampton]

Years ago I would check out the Grit to Micron Conversion Chart at Mamas Minerals Website. BUT, Now years later they changed there website & deleted this useful information. BUT, Heres 2 other Charts. LEON.

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

Years ago I would check out the Grit to Micron Conversion Chart at Mamas Minerals Website. BUT, Now years later they changed there website & deleted this useful information. BUT, Heres 2 other Charts. LEON.

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Years ago I would check out the Grit to Micron Conversion Chart at Mamas Minerals Website. BUT, Now years later they changed there website & deleted this useful information. BUT, Heres 2 other Charts. LEON.

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Yeah, I'm a little confused, sounds like you said you tumbled another 6 days with aluminum oxide but then you say you were thinking of ordering some aluminum oxide so I'm confused, do you got aluminum oxide? & did you tumble with aluminum oxide? As for the Black Residue, I've mentioned what I do about that many times in here, you must of missed that day? What I do is run to Hardware Store & Buy a gallon of Murautic Acid. I then get a 2 or 3 gallon plastic bucket & pour a small amount of Acid in there & then the rest is Water. The acid is very Strong High strength so need to Dilute it 75%-90%. Soak Bottle in there for a minute, no more then 5 minutes, Use Gloves. After a minute or 2 remove full bottle, pour half the acid back in, put thumb over top & shake acid around inside, Pour the rest back out, Rinse good with Water, If you got a Bottle Brush you can refill with Water & use Bottle Brush inside, this will help loosen/remove any Black Residue left in any small imperfection, you can lightly brush or scrub outside at this time, sometimes I use a old Tooth Brush to scrub outside to remove black residue in small imperfection. LEON.

I did let it go for 6 days. It obviously didn’t work so I was going to pick up finer polish and maybe a variety pack, just to check out what they do. Yes, I tumbled in what’s in the jar, up above, in this thread. I have played in the murautic- around here, I have to go to the pool supply and it’s mixed with hydrochloride acid, as well. I did a lot of that with the yard full of huge crystals I found, as well as a penny fireplace surround I did. That was fun having to be inside! Do I neutralize after the soak, like with with crystals? I have soaked some bottles but didn’t see much in the way of results. Heck yah, wear gloves! I found so many crystals I had like 3- 20 gallon vats of acid out there, most of the year, last year. But back to the polish- I don’t see a grit/micron # on it. Just it’s Wayne’s favorite all purpose polish. Where would I go to find #1800? That’s so fine…
Oh, sweet, on those charts…. I’m printing those up!
Has anyone tried the silicon carbide? I know it cost a little more but sounds perfect for me, about now. I see why they say it takes hands on experience to dial it in. Or great luck! It will be needing new belts, by the time I’m happy with some of this. There is 1 little bottle I tumbled for just a day or 2…. It went in with the crack in it, but I love this tiny sample bottle, with 4 sides embossed- Rene’s pain killer-try it!-magic oil- I’m ok with this- it was all crusty white. It still has a bit of patina.

I wish it wasn’t cracked but have not seen this bottle before, especially this tiny. I love this crude lill imperfect over embossed bottle. Would like to find one with stronger embossment. So that’s 1 bottle that came out! I better live about 900 years to do the backlog, on the list! ( I guess I don’t have to do these…. Stupid cat.

I’m going to sell her and go bottle shopping!). But check out how grossly black they are, and I used a ton of serious brushes on those, including a brass bottle brush. Does that get to be less of a problem as you polish? Thank y’all! Kat >^..^<


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