Thread: New Idea??? Experimentation....

Just received my new Lyman Turbo and it's loaded with walnut. Tossed a W&B in and it's off and running. I'll check in a couple hours to see if anythings happening.

Day 2. Walnut is definitely making a dent in the 280 grit sanding marks, but not as fast as I'd hoped. I decided to throw in a Russian blade I had sitting about to see if I could safely tumble two. I don't hear any clinking so it seems ok so far.

I hate waiting.

I wish I knew more about the computer, but I don't even know how to post pictures of my first restoration! Anyway, if you go here; www.cabelas.com and punch in, ceramic media, you'll go to the site. I do know there are others out there, too. I'll try and find other sources tonight. It is expensive, but for us shooters, we may be able to kill two birds with one stone. Unfortunately I can't be the ceramic guinea pig here. Too much $ spent on restoration razors!!!!

OK, here's another site for ceramic media www.biglube.com Click on How To, on the left hand side.
Other info: First, you have to have a tumbler that's made for wet media-meaning, no holes in the bottom, as in attached bowl bolts. This ceramic media might not work. It seems to be used in the lapidary type tumblers, which I'm sure would shread a razor up pretty good. There is evidence, however, that you can buy certain kinds of brass tumblers that work like the regular vibratory kind that don't spin around. Second, here's something else I found while researching media at my bp site, you can buy walnut, or corn cob media at Petsmart! I forgot about this one, myself being a previous snake owner. It's used like kitty litter, except it's for reptiles. When lizards and snakes gulp down their food, you have to be careful what's in the cage with them as you don't want them eating a load of sand, or such. The cob, or nut media passes right through their edbd systems without harm! Haven't checked the price yet.

Originally Posted by yul b. nekst

OK, here's another site for ceramic media www.biglube.com Click on How To, on the left hand side.
Other info: First, you have to have a tumbler that's made for wet media-meaning, no holes in the bottom, as in attached bowl bolts. This ceramic media might not work. It seems to be used in the lapidary type tumblers, which I'm sure would shread a razor up pretty good. There is evidence, however, that you can buy certain kinds of brass tumblers that work like the regular vibratory kind that don't spin around. Second, here's something else I found while researching media at my bp site, you can buy walnut, or corn cob media at Petsmart! I forgot about this one, myself being a previous snake owner. It's used like kitty litter, except it's for reptiles. When lizards and snakes gulp down their food, you have to be careful what's in the cage with them as you don't want them eating a load of sand, or such. The cob, or nut media passes right through their edbd systems without harm! Haven't checked the price yet.

Here are the links to Petsmart.

http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...ductId=3039712
http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...ductId=2753590
http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...ductId=2753575

You know I have both of these at the house right now and never thought of using them in this context... Now I just need to get the tumbler itself. Thanks for the ideas.

Chief

I have used the vibrating tumbler and it will do a great job, just like it does for dirty brass. youve just got to figure out what kind of media(cob or walnut) and what cleaning/polishing agent is best, which depends on how dirty/rusty and pitted it is. one media is extra strength cleaner the other more of a polisher. as for the eddge, it will have to be re-honed anyway. I would be careful of any metal parts inside the tumbler and i would tape or cover them in some fashion. have fun

I bought the Cabela's Case Tumbler Kit this weekend (Yay for points!) as I was picking up some crow decoys for my bro.
Here's the linky: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...853&hasJS=true

I got a W&B that needs to be run through it. My question is this:
With the corncob media....should I leave the scales on, or take them off?

So far there has not been a great success rate with the scales on...
But your guess is a good as mine..... My personal opinion on this, if ya want it, is the the cone in the middle would interfere with the razor, causing either bad flow or dinged up edge... That is just an opinion though

Gotcha. Well, it looks like I'll have to cut off the scales and order some pins then.

I'll try to get that all done tonight and show off my setup, but I'm not sure if I have access to the metal-cutting tools I may need to remove the scales (no Dremel available right now). Some Kasper ingenuity may have to come into play! I'll post pics tonight.