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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 6, 2010 21:14:54 GMT -5
A tip for thickening the slurry in your tumbler barrels. I keep several gallon ice cream buckets, and pour the mud from my tumblers into them. One clearly marked bucket for each grit stage. I cover the buckets with several layers of cheese cloth to keep bugs and dirt out. The water slowly evaporates, leaving hard mud and grit behind. When I start a fresh tumbler batch, I break off a piece of the hard mud about half cup size and add it to the barrel. This gives the slurry a kick start, and helps hold the grit to the rocks. It cuts several days off of the first couple of stages. Don
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turnedstone
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Post by turnedstone on Sept 7, 2010 21:41:17 GMT -5
Been doing the same thing since someone on here said it 4 years ago when I first joined RTH, just made sense to my frugal mind that some saving could be had from following this. George
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