[Jewelry making - Article 00046] - Re: [Orchid] Buying my first tumbler

[John Donivan]

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    Just a short note about tumbling - NO tumbler does especially well
    with sheet metal - that doesn't mean they don't work, though.  If
    you don't watch them carefully, they quickly start leaving drag
    marks, or at least an "over-tumbled" finish, sometimes peening and
    sometimes just more like a light sandblast finish.  Also, if you
    have more than a couple of pieces, they bump into each other more. 
    Even magnetics, which are far superior, have a big problem with
    sheet - since the bowl is stationary, sheet falls down and just lays
    on the bottom, without some assistance from the user........ 

Thanks, John D.



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