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[MoArk Willy]

Another kind of tumbler - I bought HF's smaller cement mixer hoping to knock the hulls off of walnuts..

And somewhere there is a guy with a nutcracker trying to mix concrete.

 

[California]

Yeah. That was an experiment that turned out to be a waste of time.

 

[zoedog2012]

When I was very young Mom put freshly picked gooseberries in the dryer to de-stem them, remember eating lots of gooseberry jam!

 

[MoArk Willy]

Yeah. That was an experiment that turned out to be a waste of time.

Nonsense. Edison failed nearly 100 times before he perfected the light bulb.
Failures are not wastes of time if you learn from them.

 

[California]

Nonsense. Edison failed nearly 100 times before he perfected the light bulb.
Failures are not wastes of time if you learn from them.

Well yeah. I was raised on Tom Swift, I have some of that Edison curiosity.

 

[bigtiller]

Another kind of tumbler - I bought HF's smaller cement mixer hoping to knock the hulls off of walnuts. Since the final output is food I used bolts for the abrasive, to not leave any residue.

Nothing I tried worked.

I sold the mixer.

What size bolts did you use?
I use rocks about softball size or bigger.
5 gallon of black walnuts, half gallon ~ of water, 6 rocks and let it spin maybe 15 minutes.

 

[California]

What size bolts did you use?
I use rocks about softball size or bigger.
5 gallon of black walnuts, half gallon ~ of water, 6 rocks and let it spin maybe 15 minutes.

I didn't use anything that large, maybe half inch by 6 inch bolts up to a little larger. The hulls were like sponges in absorbing abrasion. An hour run didn't do much.

I don't have the climate to effectively dry them in the sun before tumbling. Often fog or at least wet grass until 11am. I'm a few miles inland from the ocean. I don't think they were dry enough.

That was the second year, the first year I stripped them by hand scraping on expanded metal mesh and that was more productive than tumbling them. After this I haven't tried anything else, there's too much going on in the summer to put time into this project. Now the walnuts are left for the squirrels.

 

[Travelover]

..............That was the second year, the first year I stripped them by hand scraping on expanded metal mesh and that was more productive than tumbling them. After this I haven't tried anything else, there's too much going on in the summer to put time into this project. Now the walnuts are left for the squirrels.

For two years in a row, we've used a pressure washer to take off the hulls. Use a milk crate to hold them while blasting. Then put them in the attic to dry out.

 

[hunt4570]

My BIL uses the corncob media, and I know about the ultrasonic.
But by far the best method for cleaning brass is a tumbler with stainless steel media.
Often the brass comes out of the tumbler cleaner than out of the box ammo.

Yeah, but then like with the ultrasonic you have to dry it... its ammo, not jewelry

 

[hunt4570]

I already have the leveler. What I'm looking to do it modify the legs so I can lift heavy (up to 1000lbs) woodworking equipment.

That's what your FEL is for..