QuailRiver
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since May 2008
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Post by QuailRiver on Jul 7, 2016 2:55:54 GMT -5
I was sorting through some old photo files of mine from several years back and ran across these. How's this for a Tumbler? This was an industrial grade 25 gallon ball mill used for ball milling ceramic glazes at the old Pfaltzgraff Pottery Plant in Pennsylvania. Back in my potter days I bought this at an on-line industrial auction sight-unseen. I had it shipped in to a friend's business that had a loading dock. I had originally planned to put it on casters and use it for ball milling my glazes. But when I saw it in person and found out it weighed over 800 lbs I decided that it was too big and heavy to keep on casters and move around my small shop. So I stuck it on eBay and flipped it to a guy in Texas who wanted to use it for some type of Yucca Plant processing business he was doing. The thing even had a rubber tile lining. Shown here with part of the 75lbs of porcelain ball milling media that came with it. Looking back on it, if I had realized then that my wife's spirit would have eventually been broken over resisting my lapidary OCD...uh...I mean interest, then I wish I had had it delivered to the house and stuck it on the carport and used it for a rock tumbler! Larry C.
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huskeric
spending too much on rocks
Member since May 2016
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Post by huskeric on Jul 7, 2016 12:13:50 GMT -5
That would have been a crazy-good tumbler. The way you do that is you get 10 or so friends and haul it into the basement while your wife is out somewhere. Then it's like those old console record players that are the size of a small car. Once it's in the basement, the only way she can make you get rid of it is to sell your house and move. =)
Not sure how noisy that would be to run in the house, but if it's lined with rubber, mostly it would be the motor, I would think. Again, once it's in the basement...
Then you just tell your wife it's like living by train tracks, eventually you don't even hear it! Or she kills you in your sleep and they find your mangled corpse shoved into the tumbler... =)
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