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Posted: 12/14/2011 3:00:52 PM EDT
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Ok I have a question that has me confused. In regards to stainless steel media cleaning, why do you need a rotary tumbler instead of a vibration style? What would happen if you threw some stainless steel media into a vibration tumbler with some water?
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Yes, you usually need a rotary tumbler instead of a vibratory tumbler for wet tumbling that involves stainless steel media.
The issue with vibrator versus rotary tumblers is the weight capacity to which the motor is rated to. Vibratory tumblers usually can not take the strain of the combined weight of water and stainless steel tumbling media. |
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[I only have a vibratory tumbler with traditional corn cob and walnut media, and I have no experience with stainless wet tumbling], but I think a vibratory tumbler would not sufficiently agitate the fluid, stainless media and brass I as thinking this is the reason but I also figured it might still work. ? |
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Yes, you usually need a rotary tumbler instead of a vibratory tumbler for wet tumbling that involves stainless steel media. The issue with vibrator versus rotary tumblers is the weight capacity to which the motor is rated to. Vibratory tumblers usually can not take the strain of the combined weight of water and stainless steel tumbling media. Copy that. Thanks for the input.. |
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