A Tumbler for Small Forged Iron

[@SheikYerbuty]

A friend of mine lined th inside of his with cut up tires, quieted it considerably. Thanks for your videos!

[@johnbennett7772]

Thanks for the suggestion. Your welcome, glad you like them.

[@BlackBearForge]

Thanks I have been using an old concrete mixer, but it is on its last legs

[@johnbennett7772]

Hope you got some good from the video!

[@joehunter57]

Hello: John Thank you for the information I appreciate it, got all the material to make it but that, You and your family have a Merry christmas

[@johnbennett7772]

You and yours as well!

[@WG1807]

Hey John I just found your channel here in England. Very good it is so I have subscribed. I have a shop similar to yours and do similar stuff but it's good to watch different folks with different ideas. I never thought of the air chisel for veining leaves for example. I've been thinking of making one of these tumblers for a few years, since I saw one myself. Not got round to it yet. :-) But I saw a chap with one at a country fair about three years ago. He is in the business of making harnesses and equipment for heavy draft horses and deals with a lot of chain, horse bits and the other metal ware that goes with the leather for all the tack. It all has to be polished shiny for best effect and to attract clients of course. So in his tumbler he just has it with a sack of old leather pieces and strips. Just little bits of leather - trimmings and off-cuts. It's still a bit noisy because of the belt and drive and the metal parts he is polishing up, especially pieces of chain in there. But the effect was astonishing, even on pieces of small link chain that was going rusty. The chain and everything else came out looking like stainless, all highly polished, just from tumbling with leather scraps. He said it usually takes 20 - 30 minutes to polish a good few pieces and a few chains. I saw a similar comment below about using pieces of chopped up rubber tires. The leather idea seems similar. Perhaps it wont be enough to de-burr steel pieces and is more for a finer polish, in which case your bag of nuts and bits will suit the de-burring process. but interesting all the same. I need to make one - this week! Thanks for your videos and the channel.

[@johnbennett7772]

Thank you for the great idea. I will have to go to the local harness shop ans see if I can get a bag of scraps for when I do need to polish something. Glad you like my channel! Thank you again.

[@joehunter57]

Hello: John Thank you for the video on your nice tumbler, Could you please tell me where I can get a 40:1 gear reducer like the one you have on your's. I can't really think of anything off hand that might have something like that on it. I would appreciate any information that you could give me. Thank you and have a good day

[@johnbennett7772]

I got mine at a surplus auction years ago. Your best bet would be to do a pulley reduction with a series of shafts and pulleys probably. I just used the gear reduction because I had it on hand.

[@hendersonhandmadeironwoodc8881]

Really enjoy all the content you share with us here in KZbin land,nice Lars tumbler,what HP/RPM motor are you running with thos set up? Thank You

[@johnbennett7772]

I will have to get that info for you in a day or two. Sorry for the delay.

[@hendersonhandmadeironwoodc8881]

@@johnbennett7772 Thank You

[@johnbennett7772]

it is a 1/3hp 1725rpm Baldor motor with a 5:1 Dayton gear reduction further reduced by a 2-3/4" drive pulley and a 12" driven pulley. Sorry it took so long but the weather hasn't been the best and it is outsede under a tarp.

[@hendersonhandmadeironwoodc8881]

@@johnbennett7772 Thank You,it was no hurry at all,I'm glad I went ahead and asked because I was thinking I would probably need around a 3hp to turn that drum full of metal,that thing might have very well run right out of the shop! Lol Have a great day and Thank You again,Jeremy

[@mikeromophp]

John, Thank you so much for reviewing your tumbler. Really nice build. It appears, from my timing, that it runs about 60 rpm, give or take. One final question. How long do you usually run your crosses and smaller items? I know you mentioned taking lunch, but ballpark, hour? Two hours? Thanks a million. Mike

[@johnbennett7772]

I never got around to clocking it, it worked so I didn't worry about it. Thanks for the info. Hope you found it useful.

[@mikeromophp]

John Bennett Artist Blacksmith How long is an average run? Hour, two, three?

[@johnbennett7772]

30 to 45 minutes is about all it takes.

[@johnbennett7772]

A good lunch or a couple of beers works out well;c)

[@mikeromophp]

John Bennett Artist Blacksmith ha. I tell time 12 ounces at a time often, also