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Default Do not buy a Harbor Freight "rock tumbler"

On Thu, 27 May 2010 21:02:38 -0500, Ignoramus12281
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But thanks for the links. That Nova 501HT looks a serious
machine. BTW is this where you get your media from? $1.50 +/- per lb
of ceramics is very good. I wonder if they ship to Canada...


I got the media on the cart with the machine at the factory that went
bankrupt. Two half full buckets and a box of ceramic media of various
coarseness, and this vibratory tumbler. I also have some corn cob
media (way too much; anyone wants some cheap?). I was going to polish
a big jar's worth of pennies with the kids this weekend.



Pennies? Then your corncob media is what you want to use. Ceramic
media will give you either badly beaten up but very shiney pennies..or
copper disks with barely visible features on it.

Frankly..Id use crushed walnut hulls for the job, with a teaspoon of
Brasso tossed into the batch..and checked REGULARLY.

Gunner, who cleans firearms brass in a vibratory cleaner about 2' in
diameter....with walnut hulls


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