Exercise your brass

[DoggyDaddy]

As far as I'm concerned that's the best use I've ever seen for a treadmill! Awesome

I dunno about that... where do you hang your coat on that thing?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

The only problem i see with it is, where do you hang your clothes now. That is a cool idea though. I have been looking into build a rotoray tumbler myself. Never would have thought of doing it this way.

Jason

Ha! Beat me to it!

 

[blamecharles]

Before picture, they were not that dirty but I had to try it out!

You wont have problems finding that brass. Nice job, now i have two needs for an old treadmill.

 

[BEANC0UNTER]

You wont have problems finding that brass. Nice job, now i have two needs for an old treadmill.

Two tumblers

 

[77broncoman]

Recycling a treadmill in an awesome idea. I have a 10 year old ProForm treadmill that has been listed on Craigslist for $100 for a couple weeks. No interest yet, so may have to cut it down into a brass tumbler. Glad I stumbled across this.

 

[BEANC0UNTER]

I am running my second load today. Still running great. I would highly recommend it.

 

[romack991]

I had a junk treadmill that wasn't worth anything taking up space in my basement so I thought I would try out wet tumbling as well. The only bad part about using a treadmill is that it's a DC motor so you have a lot of other electronics required to run it instead of just a cord like the homemade AC ones. I don't think I'll have any $ in the tumbler. Just cutting and reusing the frame and bolts. So only cost will be the PVC barrel and the SS media. Here's my progress so far.

 

[BEANC0UNTER]

There was a lot of extra wiring. I removed the elevation motor and left everything else just to make it easy. Looks like you are getting there.

 

[SERparacord]

Just when you thought you have seen everything! Cool.

 

[jbell_64]

How fast of a rotation speed do these types of tumblers run at?

 

[BEANC0UNTER]

It will go fast enough to sick the brass to the sides but I run it about 70 rpm

 

[Hosted]

Where did you get your pins? I have one of harbor freight's little rotary tumblers that I want to start doing this with and need to just break down and buy some pins.

 

[BEANC0UNTER]

Pellets llc but you have to buy 25 pounds

 

[jbell_64]

Midway sells the pins i believe