Member postings for Lykle Schepers

I live near Limassol, up in the mountains.

Crushed olive stones! Never thought of that!

When we go and deliver our olives to the oil presses I will ask if I can get some. great idea.

OK, Here are some photo's.

The tumbler is not finished yet, still want to add covers and I also need to add a central pillar inside the tire. So that stuff will rotate nicely.

Then I need to fill it up with medium and product and start to tune the counterweight and speed to get the right vibration going.

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Lykle

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the suggestions!

These are more than enough ideas to go and test with.

I called the local nuts company to ask what they did with the walnut shells, but ran into a language barrier, I will try again when I have more time.

So, garden store, pet store and builders yard. OK, great.

All I need to do now is finish the thing so I can get a good finish.

Lykle

Hello good people,

I am building (almost finished) a vibratory tumbler using a rear scooter tire and an old electric motor from a car buffer machine.

I live in Cyprus and I am having great trouble finding the right material as media. I want to use the machine to clean and debur small stainless steel parts I am making.

Does anybody out there have a good idea what I can use? I was thinking of just trying sand with a little water. They also have a lot of granite grit here, will that do?

The problem of course is that I might be able to find the nice ceramic cutting piramids etc, but I will have to order on-line and the postage to the island just makes that far too expensive.

Looking forward to your comments and suggestions. Thank you in advance.

Edited By Lykle Schepers on 24/09/2012 15:35:43