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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 ****.

Yeah, but then like with the ultrasonic you have to dry it... its ****, 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..