UV-10 Bowl Failure

150FromFundy
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UV-10 Bowl Failure Jan 21, 2010 21:47:11 GMT -5

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Post by 150FromFundy on Jan 21, 2010 21:47:11 GMT -5

Got a surprise when I came home from work today. There was a golf ball sized grit sphere beside my UV-10. At first glance, I thought that I had blow the lid. Nope!

Second glance was more disturbing. The HDPE bowl wore paper-thin where the flat bottom base meets the curved sidewall. Not sure if this is normal failure from good old wear and tear, or if something went wrong.

My UV-10 has run 24/7 for almost one year. The only time the GRIT bowl rests is when the POLISH bowl is on.

Check it out! You could poke your fingers through the bowl.

Darryl.

johnjsgems gets rocks for Christmas Member since August 2007 Posts: 6,959	UV-10 Bowl Failure Jan 21, 2010 21:59:59 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by johnjsgems on Jan 21, 2010 21:59:59 GMT -5 That is exactly where vibes wear out with too much water. Grit settles to about that level. I don't suppose that could be the case if your tumbles were successful for the year.
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UV-10 Bowl Failure Jan 22, 2010 13:51:58 GMT -5

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Post by deb193redux on Jan 22, 2010 13:51:58 GMT -5

This is where my Gy-Roc bowl wore through. The actual hole was a bit smaller. At the time I tries some 60/90 and I wore it down faster, but I think that the wear bout there eventually.

For Gy-Roc new bowls are cheap enough. I also used some high-impact epoxy used for mounting the driver head on golf club shafts to coat the bottom of the damaged bowl and put extra coats where it had worn thin.

I let it cure for a couple of months and it looked pretty usable. I had the epoxy, and would not normally someone go out and buy $20 of speciality epoxy to repair a $28 bowl. I have moved twice and still not set up the Gy-Roc. I hope to test it out this Spring. I will report back on how the "repair" went.

Possibly a cheaper epoxy could be identified and possibly preventative strengthening of the bowl could be done.

Bikerrandy can identify rocks - even green ones Say what?? Member since September 2005 Posts: 15,688	UV-10 Bowl Failure Jan 22, 2010 20:31:37 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Bikerrandy on Jan 22, 2010 20:31:37 GMT -5 My UV-10 bowl did the same thing, but it was from normal wear and tear. It lasted almost four years and turned out more loads than I can remember.
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