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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Airgun Smithing » 18 LB. VIBRATORY BOWL Goto page 1, 2, 3  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  18 LB. VIBRATORY BOWL   Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:17 pm yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA After DerekVinyard's post on anodizing... I believe I do enough anodizing to warrant the purchase... It's on sale for $149.99 and I have a 20% off coupon. The sale ends today at Harbor... so I called them, put one on hold and am heading down in a few to go get it... So Derek... It's all your fault and if the woman argues with me... I am going to tell her "you made me do it"... http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=96923 _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:46 pm DerekVinyard Member Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 90 Man... I have been trying to convince myself I don't need one. Cause the wife just let me out of the doghouse after I bought the mill 3 months ago. Sale ends today? No, I don't need it... Harbour Freight?   Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:57 pm yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA I put a dozen aluminum brakes in the bowl with the walnut shells... even tosed in 4 brass ones... Right away I noticed the aluminum ones stay near the top and the brass went right to the bottom. Which is good so they won't scratch each other... I will give an update when I check on them in the morning... _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:07 am DerekVinyard Member Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 90 Noo... Don't tease me... You know harbourfreight won't ship to Canada themselves, they use FexEx. So I'm stock with $100 brokerage or no tumbler... Nice yourdaddyjoe wrote: I will give an update when I check on them in the morning...   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:10 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:50 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Is that going to make things shiney? _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:10 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA broommaster2000 wrote: Is that going to make things shiney? That is the plan my friend... Buffing wheels are great, but... I am getting too old for that... Besides... I don't like the compound getting all over me... _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:51 pm DerekVinyard Member Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 90 So how are they looking? I'd be willing to bet you had your hands in that tumbler every hour, I know I would have.   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:12 pm yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA DerekVinyard wrote: So how are they looking? I'd be willing to bet you had your hands in that tumbler every hour, I know I would have. Well according to the Anodizing Post... It can take up to 72 hours to get a mirror finish... It's been going for 24 and allmost all machine marks are gone and they have kinda a matte finish... I had a foot of 7/8" brass bar stock left over so I made a few brass brakes the same size as the Crosman Custom Brakes... I pulled one and with in 20 min on the buffing wheel... Mirror finish... I am all ready working on the next batch to go in... The box in the first photo... was 6 hours ago... All laid out for drilling... _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:10 pm DerekVinyard Member Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 90 I've been told for any real volume you need more than one tumbler and progressive media. I'm hoping to get one myself sooner or later, I just hate polishing.   Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:27 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA The batch that went in was pretty clean... The plastic Media is suposed to be the best to start with and then to the walnut shells for the final... I am going to order a dirty water pump and build the sediment filter set up for it. The nice thing about this one is it is all ready plumbed for the wet set up. _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:44 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA In the words of Colombo... "Just one more thing" Next time I go into Harbor... I am going to find out how much a extra bowl is for it. That way I can have a wet and a dry bowl. Or... I will just keep my eyes open for another sale and get the second so I can run two at a time. I am dying to find out how well it does... If all works a planed... I can start offering shiny parts in the line up with out all the hard work resulting in a more reasonable price... _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:53 pm BirdMan Member Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 32 Your better off tumbling the parts, then having someone bright dip before anodizing. you'll get high gloss with out the hassle of running your tumbler for day on end. We do the handles for some of benchmade's knife handles and thats how we do it for a gloss finish. _________________ The Unorthodox Hunter Blog   Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:58 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA Well even with the prep work... I am not getting the results I want with just the walnut shells... So... Off to Harbor again... 1/4" Plastic Deburing Media Item# 93832 5# bag... $14.99 1.2mm Steel Balls Item# 96354 25# Jug $24.99 2.0mm Steel Balls Item# 96357 25# Jug $19.87 The Steel Balls are being discontenued... at the best price that I found so I am buying a few jugs of each... _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:57 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA You might try looking into the stuff reloaders use to make their brass cases shiny: http://www.midwayusa.com/browse/BrowseProducts.aspx?pageNum=1&tabId=1&categoryId=19907&categoryString=9315***731***695***8940*** Sodium bicarbonate (Arm & Hammer baking soda) might work, too. It's used in industry as a less aggressive medium than in sandblasting or beadblasting. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego! 18 LB. 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