now i was of the opinion that all these wet tumblers are to small for the money so i turned this
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now i was of the opinion that all these wet tumblers are to small for the money so i turned this
Where did you get your media?
That seems to be the most expensive part at the moment.
hey deye223 any chance of a parts list? I am stuck with one of the hobby tumblers at the mo. This looks like a good project!
I hear what your saying deye223.
Asked a guy at a Queensland gun shop "Can I see that rifle over there?"
He said yep, You got a gun licence?
Sure have I said and handed over my NZ licence.
He said sorry mate I can't give it to you to hold, you'll just have to look at it from there. :(
Pretty sad really.
Cheers
Pete
yep that ain't the worst of it either
try and defend yourself and you get charged
get your guns stolen get charged yep what a system charge the victim :wtfsmilie:
Yeah the first one rings true here too mate, don't you worry.
oh well on a brighter note :ORLY: i pulled it apart and painted it looks good too.
$140 for the drum if you made it out of ordinary down pipe that would be around $50 - $60
now the base
MOTOR........$95 Electric Motor Single Phase 240V 0 25KW 1 3HP 1400rpm | eBay
RHS...............$25
SHAFT...........$17 THIS IS BRITE STEEL
BEARINGS.....$36
PULLEYS........$35
NUT&BOLTS..$8
V BELT...........$12
TOTAL...........$228 and the other total with 10lb of pins and my drum ready to spin $498 but with ordinary down pipe $408
now considering the thumler (15lb) and the rebel 17 (17) are both around $520 to your door and there to bloody small
i think this is the way to go mine (45lb)
(..) = weight capacity including water
and the pic is whats inside the drum
cheers D
glen the ID is 142mm and the OD is 160mm it's pvc presure pipe and a lot thicker than down pipe
cheers D
@deye223
Nice work :thumbsup:
I see you swapped the "O Rings" for some car inner tube.
Good thinking batman. :thumbsup:
Can't believe an Aussie would think of this .......... Are you sure your Not a Kiwi ;)
Have to be careful with the exposed Pulley and Vee belt .... just begging to mangle some little fingers.
Cheers
Pete
My buddy has a blasting cabinet full of walnut shell. If I get a block of wood with 10x5 holes drilled half a case length deep, could I just blast em for 10 mins do you think? With a flip halfway of course
The idea was to blast inside.
i forgot to post these up
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Heh deye223 did you slow you one down in the end?
narh just left it as is and it does the job
Could you give us the spec dimensions for the metal frame please. Tidy outfit.:thumbsup:
here ya go mate
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Thanks. My son and his mate now have a project with a cut off saw and welder.
I'm trying to work out RPM's to make something similar.
@deye223 What pulley sizes did you use? And what rpm is the motor turning at?
I am part way thru building a clone of his. (Must remember to send him some royalties!) If he doesn't reply real soon and i don't want to steal his glory, but he did post the motor details early on. It is standard 1400 rpm. He didn't post the pulley sizes but you can work it out. Watching his video you can count the drum revs/minute and work back from there.
sorry fellas i was hacked and have just got my modem up and running again (pricks) they took 24.6 gig in 2hrs ?
now the pulleys are 5" and 21/4" if i was doing it again i would change the 21/4 to 3" and yes the donk is 1400rpm
now the shaft size will alter the drum speed i have 1/2" and would rather 20mm but will think about changing it one
day .
shit i procrastinated on this for 2 years and then said to me self ef it i'm gunna do it and went out a bought a welder
and did it so it will be a loong time before i change it unless it shits itself but looking at the weay i built it i don't think
it will , you know back yard engineering it is either under engineered or built like a brick shit house and i prefer the latter .....
Question for ‘Dye’.
What do you think the optimum RPM is for a tumbler drum the size of yours?
Timing your video shows it is doing about 36 RPM, and in the commentary you seem to be suggesting that it is too slow. But later in the thread somebody asked if you had changed it to slow it down (though I haven’t seen where you had suggested that this was necessary) and you said that you had not.
I am asking because I am making a tumbler with a drum of a similar diameter to yours, and I am trying to determine pulley sizes, etc. Taking the pulley sizes (allowing for -6mm to obtain Pitch Circle Diameter of the pulleys) and the ‘driving rod’ diameter you have used, and deducing that the outer diameter of the tumbler rim the driving rod bears on is about 178mm, I calculated that the drum would be doing just over 40 RPM. A bit more than the video shows it doing, but I suppose that in a driving system like this, 10% slippage is quite possible.
Thanks in Advance.
Red
Oops - got your name wrong. Sorry, deye223.
yeah that's about right i think and i stress think with more speed it would be to rough on the brass even though the drum is FULL of hot water and this helps cushion the blow
after running it severl times i am more than happy the way it does the brass .
cheers D
deye223 is there any reason to buy a bigger motor than your one? Looked at the site and they had a huge range. You don't need the motor going flat out anyway? Getting the bits together finally. Thanks.
nope the 1/3 hp is more then enough even with a 40lb drum
Just awaiting quote for freight from Oz for the motor. Thanks. Just doing 400 243 cases for the new gun.
thats gunna be a lot as they are heavy
Deye223 the steel is 30mm/30mm/2mm? The cases are unrelated but the dollar is going to make kiwi hunters fade if it goes to 40 vs the yank $. Your own tumbler is adding another dimension to reloading.Getting there.