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Thumler's Model B Rotary Tumbler Great For Tumbling Rocks This is a new model B rotary tumbler It runs on 110V, 60Hz This is a heavy duty and professional quality tumbler It has a large steel hexagon barrel with removable rubber and quiet operation The hexagonal shape helps the contents turn in this large diameter barrel The 1550 rpm motor is fan cooled with overload protection and has a capacity of 15 lbs The inside diameter of the barrel measures approximately 8" (203 mm) deep and the hexagonal exterior measures approximately 22 1/2" (57 cm)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Wanna know the trick to cleaning brass shells with a tumbler?
By Mantid Photographer
If you are looking at this to clean shells then look no further.THIS is an AWESOME tool to clean shells and it chugs along making a low noise but it works great.The quality of this device is great. Yes the 6 wingnuts used to screw the lid shut could use improving but that is not a dealbreaker. The HEXAGON barrel agitates the inside contents rather well. There are also many places that will sell you replacement parts for EVERYTHING on it. Once you see how it works you might even be able to change out the motor for a stronger one and thus clean more at a time...There is only 1 thing wrong with this device. It needs to be STRONGER.This is a 15 lb unit meaning that it will spin 15 lbs and that 15 lbs includes the barrel itself that weighs about 6 or more lbs. When you toss in 5 lbs of ss pins to clean shells and about 3 lbs of water that leaves you with about 1 lb of shells to put in.Let me help anyone out who wishes to wet clean their brass from the range.First locate sources for stainless steel tumbling media. You can find it for about $20-$35 for 5 lbs on the internet from various places. Worst case scenario you go to the stainlesstumblingmedia.com website or whatever it is called.Second get some LEMIshine (from Target stores or online) and some super concentrated Dawn Dishsoap (from Smart N Final) or any place that sells commercial grade cleaning things. Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, Etc...Next get a Media/Case Seperator that works well. I ordered the Lyman turbo for about $40 from Amazon.A 25 lb Postal scale is good to have too or any scale that can measure in OZ and lbs.Next get a Digital Countdown Timer. I got one from Amazon that is about $11 + $5 shipping As long as it will turn off the outlet after 4 hours you are good.Plug in the timer to the wall and the tumbler into the timer.Put the scale on a level surface, turn it on if needed and then put the lid with gasket on top and then the barrel and then the wingnuts.Next, put in about 2 lbs of ss media pins (about 1/8th x 3/8 in size) then put in shells to put the weight up to about 12 lbs next add in about 1 tablespoon of the concentrated dish soap (I use DAWN) and then about 1/2tsp of lemishine and fill up the water till you get about 14 lbs 12 oz.Next take it all of the scale, tighten the lid down finger tight and turn on the timer until you get 4 hours and that should start the motor of the tumbler. Put the barrel on the rollers and let it roll for 4 hours. Come back and it will be shut off when it is ready.Remove the top but be careful that the pins do not go everywhere because they will be stuck to the top as well and they are light enough to not always fall through the soap. Pour out the mixture into your case seperator and fill it with water until there is enough water to keep the shells on the bottom wet or as high as it will go without flowing out. Spin your seperator slowly and after a few seconds or minutes most of the pins should be on the bottom and out of the shells. Rinse out the pins and get some clean water inside and put them back in and repeat the process all over again.If you wanna be slick you can keep another container with ss media pins on the side and when you dump out these you can just put in the new ones on the scale and fill it up and be running again in a few minutes and then take your time sorting out the stuff you dumped out.Good luck and happy cleaning. I am VERY happy that I bought this. I never had a vibrator type of cleaner but I hear they can be very dusty. There is NO dust with this and you can reuse your ss media forever and ever and ever and ever...***** UPDATE***** 04/13/2012HOLY SMOKES! If you look at your tumbler and see the motor is a 1550 RPM motor and you want to use it for shells, CHECK THIS OUT! Contact Thumbler and ask to get a high speed tumbling motor for the Model B. It spins at about 3000 RPM and will KILL my previous review.I purchased the upgraded motor for about $67.00 (which is the proper motor to use for tumbling brass shell casings) and after 3-4 days it arrived. I swapped it out and now I just did the following:Put the barrel on my scale, tarred it out to be 0, then added about 600+ 9mm shells, added the 2-3lbs of ss media, about a tablespoon or two of concentrated DAWN dish soap, then about a half a teaspoon of LEMISHINE that I got from the local store, then added in about 3/4 of the barrel of water and my CONTAINER weight was about 13 lbs. I could have put in a full gallon of water but I wanted room at the top. I spun this baby with my outlet digital timer set to 2 hours. When I came back and opened it up I WAS MARVELED.Check out my photos and be marveled! Then go and by the dvd box set of Hyperdrive from amazon. Decap your shells while watching a good comedy, toss them into the tumbler and then use the Lyman media seperator (see my other review) to sort things out. I bought two of those three things from Amazon.com. Enjoy the photos.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
bullet proof
By Joseph Bradford
I have an older model of this product, like 20yrs older. lol But these things are built to last. Not plastic. If something does manage to mess up, well it's easily fixed. Long story short, for all those who love to polish their own stones (lapidary), this thing is great. Beginners and more experienced alike will have hours of enjoyment out of this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.Sturdy and Reliable
By Dave
I have had the product for close to a year and it still runs great. I would definitely buy a second one if or when I need one.
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