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The local shop uses concrete nails in their tumbler.
Seems to work well. looks like a few wheels and a 
1/4 horse motor from the hardware store would make
a decent tumbler. Local prices are $20 for a tumble.
If you have half a dozen tanks, making your own tumbler
makes sense.
Steven

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jack Kreska-FJK003 [SMTP:Jack_Kreska-FJK003@em*.mo*.co*]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 16, 1998 09:11 AM
> To:	samuel frushour; Paul E. Ganze
> Cc:	cavers@ca*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject:	RE: Tank Tumbler
> 
> The new Oxygen Hackers Book has plans for building your own. Get the
> URL
> from the TriMix web site.
> 
> Jack
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samuel frushour [mailto:frushour@in*.ed*]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 8:49 AM
> To: Paul E. Ganze
> Cc: cavers@ca*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: Re: Tank Tumbler
> 
> 
> Paul
> Check with a local tank hydro or even fire extinguisher test facility
> to
> get prices.  This is usually cheap.  If you must build eon then they
> are
> basically 2 parallel rollers (one being motor driven).  You also need
> an
> old valve or similar device to screw in the neck threads.  Aluminum
> Oxide
> chips are the abrasive (I even heard of someone using roofing nails to
> take a paint coating out of a tank).
> 
> Sam Frushour
> 
> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Paul E. Ganze wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:10:28 -0500
> > From: "Paul E. Ganze" <PGanze@ix*.ne*.co*>
> > To: cavers@ca*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
> > Subject: Tank Tumbler
> > 
> > I want to get, or build at tank tumbler and wondering if anyone
> knows
> of
> > place to get a inexpensive tumbler or
> > if anyone has directions, blueprints to build one.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
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