Stainless pin tumbling

[Hoot]

I finally took my homemade tumbler apart and painted it. I also made a quick video of it...snip...

being a gizmo-gadgeteer, I Totally Love it!

Great use of available materials. Do you recall where the reduction drive and motor came from? I have a washing machine motor and pulley system rigged up to drive my venison grinder. Shouldn't be hard to re-task it to turn a container. Great idea using the skateboard wheels.

Hoot

[Scratch]

I finally took my homemade tumbler apart and painted it. I also made a quick video of it...snip...

being a gizmo-gadgeteer, I Totally Love it!

Great use of available materials. Do you recall where the reduction drive and motor came from? I have a washing machine motor and pulley system rigged up to drive my venison grinder. Shouldn't be hard to re-task it to turn a container. Great idea using the skateboard wheels.

Hoot

No idea where the motor came from.... I've had it for many years and have used it for all kinds of temporary projects. Looks like it finally found a home.

[SamM]

Try Axman in St. Louis Park, they have all kinds of motors with/without reduction gears for a few dollars if you don't mind cleaning it up a bit, most of the stuff there is layered in dust...

[Hoot]

Try Axman in St. Louis Park, they have all kinds of motors with/without reduction gears for a few dollars if you don't mind cleaning it up a bit, most of the stuff there is layered in dust...

Good idea! I'm no stranger to their door, though not much since they moved from St. Paul. My luck, I'd wind up with some 3-phase 400 Hz abortion.

Hoot

[xd ED]

Ax Man closed their St Paul Store?? I quit trying to get there when the lrt construction made it difficult. Didn't know they stuttered the place.

ETA: according to the internets the Axman is still in St. Paul.
I do know that many years ago the Bloomington store closed to make way for the city's govt center.

[Scratch]

I may have gotten it there.... Now that you mention it, it does jog a nerve deep down in my memory storage area...

Although it had to be at least 5 years ago, so I'm sure if I did get it at one of their locations... I'm sure they probably don't have another one just like it.

[Rodentman]

Carp! So this is obsolete? No wonder I can't find them in Bloomington....

[xd ED]

Carp! So this is obsolete? No wonder I can't find them in Bloomington....

As I recall it was on James, between 98th and Old Shakopee
See if they answer that phone number

[Hoot]

I used to live in Longfellow and the St. Paul store was the most convenient. When I heard they moved to Bloomington, I assumed (wrongly) that they closed St. Paul, much the same route as Crazy Louies. Apparently I am wrong. I tried going to the one in Bloomington a few years ago and couldn't find it, so again I wrongly assumed they moved their only store to SLP. Never realized they had several branches. Since I moved to St. Boni, everywhere is "far away". There is Borchart's Scrap Yard west of me on Hwy 7, but it's more for raw materials.

Hoot

[fabb600]

I finally took my homemade tumbler apart and painted it. I also made a quick video of it.
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What I really want to know is how much time you spent on the sound track...

[Scratch]

I finally took my homemade tumbler apart and painted it. I also made a quick video of it.
....

What I really want to know is how much time you spent on the sound track...

That's the most important part! You of all people should know the importance of a good, quality, sound system.

[Rem700]

I use SS pins and for me it works really well however I've never had a vibrator tumbler so I can't compare. Fleet farms sells a timer you can just hit 1,2,4, or 8 hours so it shuts itself off so I can go to bed or to work with a load tumbling. I personally don't think its a lot of work but my only bitch is getting pins stuck in flash holes, seems to happen most with Winchester brass. You gotta do what works for you.

Fleet Farm timer
Do you recall brand,appx cost and what dept it was located, Makes it easier to find something when you know what your looking for

[Hoot]

Just about any Christmas Light timer you can get at any hardware store will work. Both the mechanical and the electronic versions can be programmed in intervals. In the case of mechanical ones, you need to get back to it within 24 hours or the cycle repeats, but then again how long would you leave brass sitting in water? The nicer electronic ones can be programmed differently for up to 7 days, so theoretically you could set it to run one interval on one day and once it completes, it will wait a week to do it again. Plenty of time to reset it and retrieve your job. Around holiday season, you can find them on sale.

Hoot

[Seismic Sam]

To answer the OP, my answer is "Nope, not worth the time or money". I have gone the boiling water w/lemon juice route and have never looked back. No, it does not get case factory bright like corn cob or SS pins, but it's pretty darn good and about MUCH faster and simpler, and the cases are really clean! I can resize/deprime hundreds of boiled cases, and my fingers are barely dirty, so there's no significant gunk left. I can do 400 45 and 400 40 cases in under 20 minutes and even use the same water, and after they sit in my gas oven overnight with just the pilot light on they are dry and ready to go. 800 cases in 20 minutes = 1.5 seconds spent per case, while 800 cases in 6 hours = 27 seconds per case. That makes boiling cases in water and lemon juice 18X faster, plus the only equipment you need is a 2 gallon pan, a slotted spoon, and a couple of glass pyrex trays to dry the brass in. Way less up front expenditure, way less stuff sitting around, no buzzing or clacking noise in your reloading area for 6 hours to boot. Reloading with that vibratory bowl tumbler going was a real PITA, so I couldn't have a pleasant reloading session with my tunes on with that damn thing buzzing away at the same time.

[Ron Burgundy]

Scratch, cool rig. Aside from time, what did your set-up cost?