Homemade Wet Brass Tumbler

[GREYBUFF]

Just finished my (found on the side of the road) treadmill wet brass tumbler. Total cost: $30.00 for SS tumbling media, and about 4- 3/32 welding rods. All of the steel, motor, controls and wiring came from the "found" treadmill. The motor (1.5hp) & controls give about 20 to 2500 rpms. It's usually run at a very low speed.
The 5" drum will hold 200+ GRENDEL or .223 cases, 5lbs of media and the liquid. I will be looking to build an 8" drum once I find a piece of scrap pvc water pipe.
I've already polished several hundred .223 and 200 9mm. Works great!
Being retired, these kinds of projects help fill my days, are very rewarding and saves me money.
Next project is a "treadmill" run drill press, so I can have better speed control.

[Bigs28]

Pretty sweet

[nawagner]

That is pretty cool! I love when items are repurposed.

[BluntForceTrauma]

Very cool. I'm about to get into wet tumbling, but I never found a treadmill on the roadside so I just bought a Frankford Arsenal unit....

[rabiddawg]

I love it!

[1Shot]

Cool. Now you need to find a microwave that the turn table still works and make you an brass annealing machine. Check out YouTube on this. It is nice to have a PHD from the university of spit, bailing wire and duct tape.

[GREYBUFF]

Cool. Now you need to find a microwave that the turn table still works and make you an brass annealing machine. Check out YouTube on this. It is nice to have a PHD from the university of spit, bailing wire and duct tape.

Already built one using a motor off of EBAY, plus junk I had laying around.

[rabiddawg]

I thought about using a motor from a ice cream freezer.

Slow and it will stop if it gets in a bind.

[Doorman63]

I used a 5 gallon bucket, an old garage door opener motor and some random garage door parts to build one a couple years ago.

Never perfected it......bought the HF double drum for $40 instead.