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

Just a heads up - I just paid $39.99 for the tumbler pictured below at Harbor Freight...it was marked at $49.99 but rang up $10 cheaper. It is "chicago" branded, item #93252. They also had 25lb boxes of walnut media for $25, or a replacement bowl that came with ~4lbs of walnut for $12.99.

Oh and a big thanks to gssixgun and everyone else that contributed to this thread...fantastic idea

I thought I'd update you guys on Midway where gssixgun suggested we could buy these tumblers.
My tumbler had a couple of problems from the constant usage I put it through.
A couple of loose connections which I fixed with no problems. But it recently died so I e-mailed Midway an hour ago asking for a diagram of the bottom so I could see if the weight was not attached properly and here is their immediate response.

Dear Mr. Weidner,

Thank you for your recent email. We apologize for the trouble you are having with your tumbler. The tumbler has a one-year warrenty, so we have reshipping another to you at no additional charge. You can use the defective tumbler as parts for the new one, if you like or just toss it.

If you have additional questions or comments, please contact us at 1-800-243-3220. Our hours of operation are 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM Monday through Friday and 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM on Saturday and Sunday (CT). You may also email us at customerservice@midwayusa.com

Thanks for your business,

Christina G.
MidwayUSA Customer Service Associate


That my friends is customer service the like of which we don't ever see anymore. These people are wonderful and I would strongly urge everyone with a need to use these guys.

Ted

Ted that's good to know and thanks for your feedback on this.

I skimmed through 4 pages again and hope I'm not repeating any ideas here. Why not bolt two or three blades together and fan them out slightly, maybe add a few washers as spacers in between each blade. Should add efficiency to your experiment. Great work so far!

Hi guy’s thanks for a great thread I have only one question does anyone know where you can get the tubs and media in the UK as the cost of postage is working out more than the cost of the things themselves

Yippiee I have found a Midway dealer about 10m from where I live in the UK

Originally Posted by Sancho

I skimmed through 4 pages again and hope I'm not repeating any ideas here. Why not bolt two or three blades together and fan them out slightly, maybe add a few washers as spacers in between each blade. Should add efficiency to your experiment. Great work so far!

as a successful proponent of the multi-blade concept ... you really want a free flow of media and blades 3 works very well and i just place them around the bowl and let the machine work them over. I have tried as many as 7 but found that that resulted in blade edge damage.

I've been extending this tumbler experiment to knife restoration - got stuck doing a knife restore or two for my father (an avid knife collector).

I won't do multiple blades after I placed a William Henry blade and one of his knives in the tumbler together and his knife blade ended up with several deep scratches that I had to work out with wetsanding and buffing.

But the above is just my experience...

I have to agree with Jim aka Syslight here, I finally tried 2 blades at once all last week and that worked just fine.... NO damage to either blade.
I would not recommend too many more in there depending on the size of the tumbler....

One of the guys I work with came up with an idea of how to do a vintage razor in the scales... I will try this tomorrow and see how this might work out... I don't even want to tell you how this might work, until I put a little more experimentation and thought into it but I will keep you updated on the progress or failure!!!!...

I have a cabelas setup. Got it yesterday.
Put a razor with figural scales in.
No polish into the corn cob..YET...
I'll be goin to the basement to see how it is.

Just a quick reply and from experience - I ran my Red Imp in the walnut non-treated for 96 hours (4 days) and saw no change. Added some liquid rubbing compound to the walnut media, and a slight change was noticed at 12 hours...

You might want to save some time by going ahead and adding some sort of polish.