[Jewelry making - Article 00189] - Re: [Orchid] How to Build a Magnetic tumbler

[LSHancock]

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    I'm not usually one to make a piece of machinery, tools yes, but
    this has some interest. 

    I've always had space limitations which is why the commercial units
    have been my goal and the smaller commercial units are pretty quiet.
    I assume that the hand built ones are quite a bit louder? Are they
    more powerful? Can you load up a lot more media? What's the limit in
    weight and in bowl size for the hand built units? 

    I recently saw that Gesswein is selling mag. tumblers that utilize
    regular ceramic media (in modified bowls). It would seem to me that
    the size of the media, stuffed into a small bowl like that wouldn't
    be very efficient, but if it works it would be very useful. Do you
    think a bowl could be made that could utilize standard ceramic media
    in the hand built units, too? I assume that if you could, and if the
    unit is generally more powerful than the small commercial units that
    you'd probably be able to use a larger bowl. I'd love to see how the
    bowl works in the commercial unit, but I've never seen it live. 

Larry
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