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Originally Posted By: ackleymanOriginally Posted By: RustydustHey guys
Just to let you all know that Harbor Freight has their dual drum rotary rock tumblers on half price sale for just $45. For those of you that want to use a rotary polisher for their brass the dual drum model is nice because you can be polishing one kind of brass in one and another in the other and won't be having to sort it out later. Or you can use one kind of media in one and one in the other.
If I did not already have the (much) more expensive Thumler's Tumbler I would heading down the HF and getting me one of these.
My brother got their GIANT rock tumbler(vibrator) that was $159, It is bigger than Dillon's largest and it works fantastic.
I had six of the large (18 pounds) vibratory polishers, and they were awful. First off, though rated at 18 pounds, it is not possible to use the full capacity, because it is so hard to empty them.
When full, they were a beetch to empty. They have to be turned completely upside down - the Dillons are wide and shallow, and emptying them is like getting coffee out of a saucer. You just tilt them ~35°.
The bottoms are held in place with a nut, without positive indexing, so if it gets loose (and it will), you can never get it back in alignment, after which, the top never fits well again, and polishing dust leaks out and gets all over the polishing area.
We returned one every 3 to 4 months, until I left the place.
Just to let you all know that Harbor Freight has their dual drum rotary rock tumblers on half price sale for just $45. For those of you that want to use a rotary polisher for their brass the dual drum model is nice because you can be polishing one kind of brass in one and another in the other and won't be having to sort it out later. Or you can use one kind of media in one and one in the other.
If I did not already have the (much) more expensive Thumler's Tumbler I would heading down the HF and getting me one of these.
My brother got their GIANT rock tumbler(vibrator) that was $159, It is bigger than Dillon's largest and it works fantastic.
I had six of the large (18 pounds) vibratory polishers, and they were awful. First off, though rated at 18 pounds, it is not possible to use the full capacity, because it is so hard to empty them.
When full, they were a beetch to empty. They have to be turned completely upside down - the Dillons are wide and shallow, and emptying them is like getting coffee out of a saucer. You just tilt them ~35°.
The bottoms are held in place with a nut, without positive indexing, so if it gets loose (and it will), you can never get it back in alignment, after which, the top never fits well again, and polishing dust leaks out and gets all over the polishing area.
We returned one every 3 to 4 months, until I left the place.