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This is plastic media which is a little bit more leightweight than ceramic media. The flexible shaft was fabricated on my CNC mill.

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Diy media tumbler. That reduces the swinging mass on the tumbler so the forces on the shafts and bearings dont have to be as great. The first thing many people consider using when looking for a substitute tumbling grit is sand. Buy walnut bird bedding.

With the natural process stones in streams and rivers tumble because of the flowing water. Belt misalignment due to bending steel rod. Lucas April 21 2014 DIY Reloading 13 Comments.

One other way to get into wet tumbling if you are at all handy is to your brass is to build your own rotary tumbler. DIY Tumbling Media Separator. DIY Rock Tumbler My wife recently started making beads and other things from polymer clay and wasnt getting quite the finish she wanted using sandpaper.

Make sure you have no brass in the tumbler at this point. You dont need to buy tumbling media Go to a pet store like Petco. I can realistically fit 500 556 cases at a time and the tumbler comes with 5lbs of steel media havent needed to buy more in a year and a half.

Original that is much prettier. After getting my reloading press all put together and ready to rock I found myself with a bunch of clean brass in the tumbler with no way to separate it from the crushed walnut media. Run for safety when the wife comes downstairs to investigate the noise.

It made making round parts WAY easier than having to find the center every time. The blue is live the white neutral and as always the green is ground. When you place rocks in the container they topple on each other and eventually blend with the grit.