How To make a Tumbler Machine (parts tumbler build project) 

that seems to work surprisingly well. great job improvising with parts & figuring out the problems as they arose

Nicely done. I have watched hundreds of diy rotary tumbler videos by now, but I keep coming back to this one. The information about motor voltage and current is useful. Direct drive is very efficient too. Thank you!

Nice! There are lots of ways to skin that cat. I've made several, usually with pats on hand or found in the junkyard. The best one I ever made for deburring parts used 2 rollers and bearings that were wringers on a washing machine from the junkyard. The rollers were mounted on a flat angle iron frame far enough apart one could be used to mount a pulley with a bearing in the hub to act as a third pulley and countershaft in a speed reduction drive. It used a 120 VAC motor and tire to tumble the parts. We tumbled wet with gravel from the driveway. If rust is a problem, add a water-based cutting fluid or a weak lye solution. You may need a guard to keep the tire from walking off the rollers. I have also made them from nothing but PVC pipe using O-rings on the large tumbling tube as drive bands.

Being spontaneous, humble and innovative is what marks this man out from others and give me a subtle inclination to listen and learn!

We to had one filled with ball bearings and one with ceramic in. Where i used to work. Add some water and washing up liquid and works really well

Nicely done!! Simple, concise and detailed~ thank you

Glad you found the right thing at the rock store :-). Nice and simple solution, very cool.

I made several tumblers for metal parts. I find that if the tumbler runs slower, it does a better job. You want the items to tumble, not drop and fall. Some baffles inside the drum helps. I fastened some vinyl siding J channel on the inside.

I really like your idea of a tumbler, the build and video are excellent, thank you for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍

Woo my boy got a bench press! It's such a good fit for your line of works! I really enjoyed your videos and all the ingenuity and creativity in it.

Thanks for this. I need a tumbling machine for self made flocking, and now I know how to tackle this. Really smart move with the wheels!

Thanks for the details and near misses. great video.

Bookmarked it for my diy pipeline👍

Nice video & design! I made mine from feed rollers of an old jet printer. Also performs well & even less work. I use a GatorAid type quart jar for small quantities; the non-smooth grips on outside of jar tumble the media more than plain container. I can barely put a one or two gallon wide mouth plastic jar on it too. If the large jar has a formed grip handle, it really throws the parts & media around inside. The contents can’t just slide around smooth interior. My little printer rollers are at their limit with large jar & it sometimes gets kicked off by the vigorous tumbling of contents. This size would work even better! Irregular shape container would tumble way more too.

Killer surface finish! :D

Nice,. I'm in the process in making one with a treadmill motor. Plus using the rollers that came with it. I'm happy that u show the speed controller, which I plan to use. Thx.

your my kind of mad scientist!

Nice job. I'll build one of those. Thank you.

I like the McGyver feeling of this. Nothing specific, nothing measured out, from parts you already had laying around :D

Very nice its not premium but it gets the job.. Love your vids and the steps to troubleshooting 👏👏

Thanks, very good ideas

I made one using an old printer and some scrap wood. For the drum I am using PVC pipe, the only parts I had to purchase. It really polishes my brass well.

Excellent build man, I like your setup and tools that you use. A small lathe like you have is exactly what I would like to acquire.

nice tumbler.... thought mine was simply..great thinking..

Moin. Also die Gummizusammensetzung von Rolerblades sind ziemlich gut. und da sie für Asphalt sind, sind die auch ziemlich lange haltbar. Außerdem bekommt man oft welche geschenkt auf unserer "Craigslist" aka Kleinanzeigen. schönes Projekt, gefällt mir gut. Beinahe alle nötigen Teile kannst du übrigens aus einer alten Nähmaschine bekommen... inkl. Motor und anlasser... der ja auch nix anderes wie ein Travo ist! Ein klasse Projekt wäre auch eine Nass Schleifmaschine zum Stechbeitel/Messer schärfen. Die Schleif Steine sind günstig, die Apparatur dazu aber oft bis zu 400 eu teuer. (ZB TORMEK). könnte sich also Lohnen. Auf jeden Fall gibts ein Abo!

I love the video! I imagine Bike tube would if made good for friction.

Thanx, my old vibration tumbler broke down, I think I will use your design.

Excellent project 👍

This is very tutorial, thanks!

Nicely done!! Good job

Great video man! Keep it up.

Try using saftey grip tape on the barrel for better friction if you have a heavier load. You can find them in thin sticker forum.

A nice little project. Really enjoy how you work around issues that arise. Given the tub is not rubber I am going to say it must be too noisy for tumbling rocks with though. It would need to run for at least a a week at a time.

thanks for the inspiration, really helps my inner building freak.

Perhaps Plasti-diping the all thread. That stuff is pretty durable. Great Video. 5 Stars

Could granite rocks break terracotta pieces into a fine powder? I wanna build one so I can use the powder as grog for clay molding but I don't know if the granite rocks would crush the pieces or it'll just remove the edges. Maybe I'll have to use steel balls or something similar?

Just a couple thoughts on acquiring decent bearings and-or wheels and something about a convenient driver system for wet projects. I built a large (110 gallon volume) air pressure driven continuous threw-put rotary reel spray washer for washing vegetables many years ago. I found the castor type wheels with good bearings were a bit expensive, for what you got. I did try to use salvaged castor type wheels at first, but because of the weights and speeds involved, they failed fairly quickly because they had a surface to surface oil lubed unsealed bearing system, like we see here. The solution I came up with was to use replacement wheels for push "scooters' (the type for kids). They are relatively cheap, readily available and have decent quality sealed bearings. You can buy the bearings separately, if that is all you need. For smaller projects, replacement wheels for skateboards have the about the same quality sealed bearings. Of course you have to build mounts but that is not much of a problem. The articulated hinge mounts I built for my project had adjustable spring tensioners to help compensate for defects in the curvature of the drum which does cause some harmonic vibration at higher speeds. My washer threw-put many thousands of pounds of vegetables with no failure of these type of bearings. Driver system: Because I needed a rotational speed adjustable driver which could safely operate in a continuously wet environment, I came up with the solution of using a belt system driven by a cheap (budget is king) air powered drill. The speed of the drill is easily adjustable based on the air pressure input. I did not calculate the operational cost of this system as I felt, at the time, any loses in driver efficiency was outweighed by the increase in operational safety. I hope this comment on my experience may help others move forward with their unique project.

That power supply is 150W btw. Although they can handle a little more. With Meanwelll the numbers tell you the power as well as the voltage.

best video I have seen on making a tumbler.

you can try to spray rubberized coatings on the bucket for friction

You linked most of the things, but didn't see a link for the "plastic barrel"?

Great idea. I am building one like you did. Where did you get the container? I couldn't find it anywhere.

Try fuel line hose over your driveshaft rod, should be able to find some that fits tight on the shaft and you can cut it one length or two short ones.

you could used a knife honing stone and done the metal edges

great Video, Think I will build something inspired by your tumbler. Hey where did you find that barrel you used for the tumbler ?

hey max WHY did you not move the variable speed box closer to.tje motor or used a piece of tubing to.cover the wires and clamp.to.the board where can you get that type of container

I'm looking to make something similar, what size is that bucket?

Use a flanged bearing and forestener bit and press in tight. Lock nuts n each side of bearing. No need to turn down on lathe.

nice.

where do you get that white barrel

I know this is just a home DIY sort of a project, but it was too rough and ready and had me cringing on several occasions. Do you own rulers, engineer's squares, calipers etc.? They make life so much easier with projects like this.

Perfect for black powder maker.

A couple cogs from a bike and a chain will also work and never slip for turning the barrel with less work...no lathe work and we can duplicate it easily.

I found the podcast from DIY Perks' mention of it. Found this channel from the podcast. Nice!

still using it? Where did you get the container? working on one right now. It is a 5 gal bucket inside a driven 5 gal bucket for quick media changes and negates media storage. I think your design would do that too.

8:55 cover wire with metal? Now that's a decision I wouldn't make :)

Hi everyone nice video just wanted to throw an idea out there for anyone looking to make a bigger version and wondering what motor to use. I haven't completed it but I have been gathering parts. I will be using a treadmill motor , powerful and variable speed. some one is always getting rid of one just an idea.

Can i know about specification dinamo?

Wo kann mann dieses Fass kaufen? Würde mir gerne diese Maschine nachbauen. Vielen Dank für dieses tolle Video.

What motor did you use ??

How is the granite tumbling media working out. Does it last? Does it leave a heavy chalk on everything? Thank you!

What exactly is that white and red barrel from? I seen the same one in one of “The Oftler” loudest firework compilations. Judging by your European accent and The Oftler being from eastern Europe(eastern Germany to the baltics) I’m going to assume that is you can only buy it in europe: I’ve looked for the same one at Home Depot, Lowes,GNC(looked like a protein powder tub), grocery stores, and havnt found anything that resembles it. I also thought that “barrel” might be a polyethylene weed sprayer tank. I found a bunch of glass jars recently, 170 small dark brown skin care jars without lids; but the brand is etched(I think)into the glass. Sand paper sort of got it off but scuffs up the glass. So I’d like to sand it off and then etch the jar(s) in a home made rock tumbler. Having the glass etched will further block light along with it already being a dark brown clear glass. I found another 100 or clear glass jars in several shapes in a dumpster behind a marijuana dispensary . Almost all of them have lids. I come across chemicals, specimens, and small oddities that need to be stored and the best way is in glass jars in my lighted glass display cabinet. I’d like to make a rock tumbler for many things, but mostly to diffuse light through glass. Some glasses I might have to coat with a UV blocker. Here’s the same “barrel” in The Oftler’s video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yD-glZs3BEY.html

Si bueno! 👍

FYI: sewing machine oil is (most times) just made from refined mineral oil, which doesn’t dry out, you can find mineral oil very cheap in the shops :)

What rpm doest is it work?

What size of motor is that

ooh ... s..t ... one more with a Laathe ... :D

Question: You already have a rotation machine with rpm control... Why not use it as a tumbler and make some adjustments to fit a barrel on it.?😉🤷‍♀️

dude you have a lathe make a small coupling for the motor

Schönes Projekt! Aber bitte benutz doch beim nächsten mal Aderendhülsen bei deiner Stromversorgung!!!

Use granite chicken grit for media

Where did you find the barrel

Just use heat shrink for the whole rod.

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Hey bud, those looked to be galvanized metal parts that you wanted to put in your tumbler. You don't want to be doing that, you will be creating ultra fine zinc dust and that is one of the last things you want in your lungs,

WHEN IS THE HYDROFOIL COMING PLEASE

That power supply should have come with a plastic panel to protect the in and output terminals.

Where can I find that container ?

Oh sure ive got a sheet metal brake just sitting around. by the time you add all the electronics and parts you can BUY one of these

Il faudrait coller sur la jarre deux pneus de vélo et fixer sur la tige reliée au moteur au même endroit, des bagues en caoutchouc, la bande de tissu enroulée sur la tige du moteur est une mauvaise solution ou alors 2ème solution surélever le plateau portant la jarre et les 4 roulettes et enfiler 2 roulettes dans la tige du moteur

"Are your papers in order?"

I didn't watch the entire video before I post this, but couldn't you connect the drive shaft directly to the bottom of the plastic container to rotate the container

That choice or rubber gasket for covering the drive shaft is a poor choice. Use automotive engine hoses to slide over the rod. Anything else will wear out very quickly.

At 1:34 - "This can be dangerous". I had a friend who worked in a machine shop where one of his colleagues was killed by exactly this. He was turning a piece of rod, and had the other end of it coming out of the back of a chuck. The rod bent, and whipped, and hit him on the top of his head - and split him to half way down his chest. Machine tools have no compassion!

i think it is to mutch granit

Cool video, I'm in the process of making a tumbler myself and will have the video up on my channel soon, you should check it out.

Sewingmachine oil is literally the worst oil you can use to lubricate something long term.

main power red is live not blue

I saw lot of videos about tumbling but I can't understand 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️why they don't used correct media which is blasting sand except one video

Deutscher Videotitel und englische Sprache??????

That's a lot of work to avoid 15 minutes of filing the edges.

Ay bro where the Efoil at

I would rather spend 20 minutes filing than listen to a tumbler for 3 hours, i can understand using a finer gravel for rust removal but not a gravel for sharp edges

Who the fuck just has a lathe