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Post by toiv0 on Feb 19, 2020 19:51:17 GMT -5
If you see what you get from China or India you will realize why it's so cheap. Look at the hand holding the cab and you will probably see an oily hand. Makes the stone shine though. My friend made cabs in bulk thinking quality over quality. @alicat218 can verify I have thousands of his cabs that need to be reworked and some of them aren't re doing. If you are selling cabs at the flea or farmers market I don't think a cab machine will be your ticket. There's been one for sale on Chicago Craigslist for years. I traded w.ails with him for a month. Must be a scam of some sorts because it's always there.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 19, 2020 17:18:55 GMT -5
you done good, I love the material also.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 19, 2020 13:46:11 GMT -5
I am not sure if your having trouble removing the nuts or the wheels off the shaft after you have removed the nuts. I haven't had trouble with either.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 19, 2020 8:02:53 GMT -5
toiv0 I had to replace the funky twin shaft motor years ago. There is an import replacement. Not cheap. I think I got it from Diamond Pacific. GE no longer makes it. It is not as well built motor as the GE. I remove the hopper and use the edge of the vibrating deck to mix 1 gallon paint cans and screen abrasives with it. Place a 2 gallon bucket of mixed quartz pebbles on it to separate the bigs from the smalls by vibration. Separating seeds from seed shells, pulling blood out of meats, removing salt from from over salted nuts. Small pieces of crushed glass from large pieces of crushed glass. I want to try it on gold/garnet bearing wet sand, it should bring the denser gold/garnets to the bottom by density separation. Lots of uses for that machine aside from tumbling. Genius I say. I have 2 of them maybe stand one foot on each to help my balance as I get older. Haha |
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 17:34:56 GMT -5
This may be of interest toiv0 . I rotary tumbled bezel material. Brass, copper, white brass, german silver. To round the edges well before hammer finishing them. It takes a good while, like 5 days in SiC 60 to get full radius edges. Lots and lots of gas build up tumbling metals in water. From shear cut to this edge using 60 grit silicon carbide and a bit of water for about 5 days:   Tumbled about 5 pounds of base metal bezel material at a time. Just the metal, no agates, ceramics or stainless/glass balls added.:  Tumble rounded bezels were then hammer flattened/finished, and did not at any point require file touch ups on bezel edges to remove shear marks. Copper decorations were then soldered on, job complete.  Interesting, our bezel material a person normally buys is .999 fine silver which is soft. Sime people here and myself for Castelated bezels make them ourselves. What you're calling a bezel looks like pieces of your various metals. Interesting though, looks like something I would and or probably do in the future. |
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 16:53:35 GMT -5
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 16:45:15 GMT -5
I just rebuilt One and the factory O rings are 20 for 2. Factory set6ting on the weights are 1 and 1 notch. Noticed yours was set on 1. More vibes? It was set to about minimum of 1 Billy for glass. And I use a small 8 pound hopper. From 0 to 5, I believe the setting for the 35 pound hopper is 2.5. MrP has a big heavy hopper he welded from a tank. Not sure the capacity or the weight of the steel hopper or his settings. More vibs ? - Sorry, what is the question ? Lower the number higher the vibes? I have a 35 lb hopper on this one. 2 6 lbs on the other. |
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 13:34:43 GMT -5
Wondering how long some of the rest of you tumble your jewelry for? I use a 3 pound rotary with one pound of stainless steel shot. Water about one half inch above the shot and a squirt of dawn dish soap. I run them like that for an hour or two. I do shows a couple times a year and the week before a show I start running about 100 pendants in the tumbler to clean them up. I usually toss in 2 or 3 at a time. Lengthy process but cleans everything like new. Chuck For cleaning, I run silver up to 3 hours and more for copper. For new pieces that may need deburring or hardening, esp copper, I tumble up to overnight. But, for cleaning alone, I find the speedbrite to be a blessing. I will use the speedbrite after tumbling, too, to get off any deposits left on the piece.
I also tumble like Chuck does and add a bunch of those lentil shaped plastic pellets. I have tumbled everything and have only ruined a variscite and a malachite. The soft stuff or really soft matrix does not go in the tumbler, but pearls, crystals, ammolites- just about everything- excluding those mentioned and coated anything- go in the tumbler.
Having said that- when I was doing soldering work, I threw some unset silver settings in the tumbler and I left it in too long because it came out dented like it had gone through a hail storm. Won't do THAT gain.
I am wondering if a vibe will really work. The point to most of the tumbling action will be lost in a slippery slurry. Not sure that kind of action is gonna debur or harden. I'm interested to see your results.
I do use the vibe to harden silver bands and ears wires as I make them my self. |
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 13:03:03 GMT -5
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 12:52:01 GMT -5
Some very cool rocks, going to be fun.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 17, 2020 12:49:05 GMT -5
I just rebuilt One and the factory O rings are 20 for 2. Factory set6ting on the weights are 1 and 1 notch. Noticed yours was set on 1. More vibes?
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 16, 2020 23:50:17 GMT -5
Thanks everyone, going to do it in the morning sometime. Will let you know the results. Going all the way and throwing everything in.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 16, 2020 18:55:05 GMT -5
I normally put silver bands and earnings in a vibe with steel shot. Was wondering if I can put rings with agate s in with them. They are bezel mounted and at least a 7 MOHS.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 16, 2020 13:40:01 GMT -5
Anyone?
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 15, 2020 10:58:13 GMT -5
 Here's another with auto feed.  |
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 15, 2020 10:55:01 GMT -5
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 15, 2020 10:11:33 GMT -5
Too fun, I like turtles.
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 14, 2020 19:32:01 GMT -5
Had to look at your avatar to see your lip.....duh.
Cool piece
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 14, 2020 17:07:53 GMT -5
I like it
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 13, 2020 15:37:06 GMT -5
I gave my uncle some tumbles 10 years ago and my cousin claimed the little collection since his passing. She just asked if I had any Bumblebee tumbles. She just needs a half dozen about inch or inch and a half.
I could also use a pound or two of mixed tumbles in that size also to fill her platter. I turned all I had into magnets.
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