You Need This Tool - Episode 79 | Eastwood Vibratory Media Tumbler
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On this episode of You Need This Tool I feature Eastwood's Media Tumbler. This thing works great and will for sure add to the attention to detail on future projects.
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Eastwood Company that's so cool that you guys made something like this.
eastwood has some of the coolest stuff out there for sure.
Where's the free shipping he described? I got the discount but still wants to charge for shipping.
Hey Rick, Eastwood had some issues with the free shipping on the website so they just made it discount only. Sorry
No problem, just ordered mine today. Thanks for the video and thanks for the 10% off
I need to stick my entire C10 in there!
lol
Very cool review. Thank you for sharing :).
Easily one of my favorite channels on TH-cam. I am a pretty competent mechanic when it comes to turning wrenches, but I am beginning to learn metal fab very late in life. You have saved me so much time and heartache in learning to work metal. Thanks, man.
Great video.....keep em coming!
thanks
I have one of these. I was initially disappointed at how long it took to clean parts,,, and the noise too. I started to experiment with methods and so far have settled on the green plastic pyramids with a Cascade brand liquid dishwasher detergent & water solution. The liquid in the mix cuts the noise to near zero, and the parts get cleaner in about a 1/4 of the time it takes dry. I use it a lot now.
I need to try that
Water extends media life substantially.. but as they break down the coating needs to be promptly rinsed off or it dries and retumbling required.
Very nice demo
Hello. Kyle and I am glad that you have a sponsor. Eastwood is a great company.
thanks...for sure
yo i had one for some wheel bolts and valve cover nuts worked great ... i put 2 spoon fulls off mothers in and some nufinish
Replace screw knob with a golf ball that has threaded insert... instantly wifey's favorite tool/stool
lol
Great tool, I use it all of the time. Try using the metal wash with the green media, works good on greasy bolts.The hose on the tub is for draining out the metal wash when you are finished, they thought of everything. As always thanks for the Vid. I am going to do work son!
thanks...I will give it a shot
The green is for cleaning, the corn is for finishing. Using the corn first is like using 2k grit sandpaper to get rid of rust.
yeah I figured that out....dont even use the corn anymore
What works way better is a rotary tumbler with stainless pins, dawn, and lemishine. Took me years to discover it as a reloader but it makes casings come out almost like new even if they're tarnished
Nice review
Adding a little bit of soapy water with the plastic pyramids helps out on some projects. I have the Harbor Freight one and the bowl broke, so I wanna get a few of the Eastwood replacement ones. Handy tool for those projects that are too detailed to buff up by hand.
Awesome review video Kyle! That product is legit!!!
thanks man
You are welcome!
This thing really looks to be worth its weight. Seriously want to pick one up now....
yeah is cool for sure
Thank you It be good to see some tools in there sockets ETC Take care
I will have to do that
Nice product! I enjoyed seeing actual before and results, so well done.👍 My plan of attact when using it would be to build a small, insulated enclosure in the shop to house it, then plug it in before going to bed. When possible, let the third shift guy do work, son.😆 Great review, man... thanks again.
thanks man
Wowzer, a sharp guy, would use his pickup magnet to remove ferries metal parts from media.
I love eastwood, i have a store 15 minutes form me, I mod computers for a living but I do that in my fabrication shop I built, lots of automotive fabrication crosses over into PC modding, and eastwood is super handy to have close by. Ive got the smaller eastwood tumbler it does damn good.
thats awesome
Hey when you do the corn cob media add a little nu finish liquid polish to it. I do this with brass and it really brings out the shine
I will give that a try
Those vibe tumblers are awesome. Saves hours on deburring small parts..
yeah for sure....Happy Birthday
Thanks Kyle..
Use crushed walnut shells from a pet store ( zilla brand ) like $7
Man I luv Eastwood
lol
I don't really know what I was expecting but looking forward to the results. Sand was a bit disappointing but the stones was more promising. Definitely looking to see more action from this. Looks like it makes a ruckus with the stone's. LOL
yeah the stones are made to be used with water as well so I plan to give that a shot....I would guess it would also tame the noise some
Eastwood has cool stuff
for sure
I use one of these a lot for reloading ammunition. If you're going to use it a lot you ought to pick up a media separator. I dunno if eastwood has them or not, but any store that sells reloading equipment should carry one. It's just a nice little thing to spin out the media from your parts so you can easily find them all.
I will look into it
basicly the parts are now done to be plated.. use them as is.. they rust after a week :P. but this video convinced me.. im buying one! rebuilding a engine and need some stuff to be recoated. but need ti to be with out sanding and stuff or wierd chemical etching with acids lol
I’m buying one, thanks
good video, I really like how you had two of everything as your control, however your hardware was not that rusty, not being rude, but I went through the exact same testing with fender and grille nuts and bolts from my '54 Chevy truck, and this tumbler didn't do much of anything, ran it twice for 10 hours
Hey fool it's Friday!!!
Hey bud could you do a parts washer Friday video with different types of fluids to use 👍🏼
Nice product...
thanks
I use mine to clean brass for reloading. Add your media, corn, BBs whatever you prefer and a bit of polishing paste. Good to go.
I have a bunch of brass I need to try.
It's Friday fool!!!!!!!!!
Check out sporting good stores that have tumbling media for reloading, I use one for my brass and I find that walnut shells cleans better, while corn is better for polishing. you can get some that has polishing rouge embedded in it, which I hear works well for really nice polishing.
I will take a look
Hit the bolt with a magnet to see if it's stainless steel? I use my vibrator for cleaning / polishing for reloading brass, just like Derick Clute says below. I have used mine for 17 years, and now use the car wax / polish in the Orange bottle, vs stuff made just for ammo brass! Love your videos!
thats awesome...thanks
Pretty awesome
thanks
Someone may have already said this....but, you only polish parts that are ready to polish. Use green pyramids then the corn crap
The gun forums have great tips for tumblers
i could see that
Keep up the good videos. I think is spend 5-6 hours cleaning special suspension bolts with media blaster and wire wheel before they could be plated. This would save me a lot of work.
yeah for sure
Maybe you are Eastwood biased, maybe you do get perks from Eastwood, maybe Eastwood fattens up your pocket. I don't know and I don't care! You do a damn good job of showing off their products and demonstrating their capacity. I never did care for Eastwood, but after watching these videos I tell myself "Man, that might be something I will need for my garage" and I like that you add the link to the product page. Cool channel *Thumbs up*
+Peter B thanks
Great video. Just a thought, im pretty sure you're supposed to run the part through the green first and clean them then the corn to polish them if you want them polished
yeah I mentioned in the video that would be the process....I wanted to test them separately though
The Fab Forums show some parts that went threw the green media then the corn...curious to see what kinda shine it gives. 👍🏻
I think I am going to do a follow up video showing that
You said the corn was for polishing so my thinking is to use the pyramids first to get most of rust off followed by corn grit to give a final polish.
yeah thats what I should have done
Updates? Do you use this still or is it just sitting on a shelf?
When using the ceramic media (green pyramids) it works a lot better with water. If I ran items through my vibro-polisher for six hours it would wear them away 40 to 50 minuets is usually enough.I found that it is better to mix the shapes,I use gey 10mm balls and grey pyramids in my 2 cubic foot unit.
cool. I used some water but may have not been enough. How much water to you usually use?
My neibors would love to listen to this all night
I run a hose in and have a hose to run the water out. It's a half inch hose with the tap just cracked open, so basically just a trickle running through you need to keep the media clean as it clogs up. it is just a load of small whet stones in reality. The machine is built to be used wet it has an inch and half nozzle for the water outlet.
The one we had in the machine shop at my last job almost looked like a soup when it was running. The corser stones defiantly need to prolong the life of them. Then swap out to a second drum from the shine finish. You can pick up spare drums that are compatible with the Eastwood one at your local harbor freight store.
You should do the ceramic first and then switch to the polishing media.
Ditto dat!
yeah...I wanted to test them seperate
if something is rusted o greasy..can add some water and caustic degreaser..with pyramids work really good!!
cool I will have to give it a try
i got one of these at a garage sale. And i'm trying to figure out its advantage over say a sandblaster. Where I can get that effect in 5 min, compared to the 12 hours. Maybe there is a creative use. Between sandblasting or using evaporust i'm not sure where this fits in.
This is one of those machines, that you quickly realize that you need 3 of them, all set up with different media, ready to go. (or at least 3 different bowls)
Something you'll want to do it extend the life of the bowl, is to epoxy a piece of wheel barrel sized inner tube to the bottom. The other thing I did was to take a piece of thick acrylic, route out a groove for the lip, and use that as the lid. This accomplishes two things. First, allows you to crank down on the lid much tighter than the flimsy plastic will allow. And secondly, lets you see the progress.
This is identical to the Harbor Freight version. Which is cheaper when you use the 20% or 25% off coupons. But Eastwood is one of the places that sells extra bowls for $30. (the 5lb versions of this suck ass, just stay away)
I use Simple Green as my mixing solution with the green pyramids. When you use a solution, you don't have to let it run as long. Also, really look into all the different abrasive medias there are for this. As there really isn't a one media for all solution. For instance, you'll never want to vibrate aluminum parts in the same media that you ran steel through. Again, like I said... you'll quickly realize how beneficial it is to have many of these (or at least bowls) ready to go.
After two years of working my way through using these bowl tumblers, I just want to say ..... THUMBS UP TO YOUR ENTIRE POST!!
you can also use walnut shells like from a sanblaster
cool
Dont you think the polish would work better as a second step?
yes for sure
"Same degree of.....not shiny" Lol, pretty much describes things that fall into the depths of my tool drawers
lol
could you put some 30/60 glass media in it to remove chrome to cerakote or paint the part?
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It should work on everything
First!!
This video is going to make me pull the trigger on this tumbler.
lol...they are cool for sure
I don't even smoke pot anymore and damn if I didn't hear a bong " singing a tune" when you fired that hog up.... *shakes head* LOL
I think the green are obviously more of a coarse media to take the rust off. If you followed that up with the finer corn polish, i bet they would come out SHINEY!
for sure
Awesome
thanks
Dang i gotta get one of them
they rock
Corn cob isn't aggressive enough for those parts.
would the corn cob be a great media for polishing billet Aluminum?
Hey man have u ever thought about a removable canvas top on the bibster kinda like model A's used to have?
I have....not sure what I am going to do though
The coating is zinc I do believe, my uncle's business does such a coating for GM etc.etc. etc.
Gold color on most fasteners is usually a zinc-chromate or zinc-phosphate conversion.
Yup, they do a lot of other colors as well (well at least my uncles business does, not sure about others)... I got a bunch of samples here on my computer desk of them (door pins etc.).
Stainless will still rust... different grades rust at different rates.... ALL metals will oxidize... ALL metals.
The green pyramids leave a "grey sandblasted finish" and the dry-Shine/husk polishing medis leaves a better looking finish.
Yeah‼️‼️‼️
I’ve had 2 18 lb vibratory tumblers from Eastwood, one had an electric motor failure after a couple of years, one still works. The green fiberglass pyramids absorb dirt slime grease on your parts then transfers the slime back on the parts and it’s difficult to get off. Really not worth the money IMO.
Adding some dish soap with the green pyramids helps out with greasy stuff.
if you put a bucket over it while its running, it makes it much quieter.
My question is how does the Eastwood one compare to the ones at Bass Pro Shops. Which are made by ammo reloading companies like Lyman or RCBS.
I have no idea
HAy mate i just seen your paint can hold what did you make that from or can b uy them in Australia
Wayne McGill i think someone sent it 2 him.. on one of the Friday tool videos
Oh ok cool thanks shaun gannon
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How many amps does it draw?
Not great but good. Where these things really "shine" is on brass ammo casings for reloading.
Where did you get that spray can organizer?
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Ha...I need a much bigger version of that!
lol
They might have been serious vibrations, but were they good vibrations?
yes they were...! lol
What are these green things on your table?
that is the media
6:11 hehe, i know that sound.
I used to use a rock polisher for stuff. But couldn't you have used a scuff pad and done about the same thing in about 30 seconds?
yeah depending on what it is....some things have hard places to get by hand. plus who want to hand scuff a hundred bolts. I can let this machine do the work while work on other things
Man I really wonder if this would work well on PVC fittings as long as you used the right material!? Seems legit. We use PVC fittings and like everything else, especially even you're busy and mobile, they get dirty as hell rolling around the work truck bins. When we deep clean after the hot season we have 5 gallon buckets full of these new, but dirty fittings that we almost don't want to use in houses and buildinga. Lol
I may test it
stainless steel isn't 100% rust proof depending on the grade it just stains less than carbon steel
how long before the tank wear off?
not sure but you can buy replacements for like $25. I will probably buy another just tome make it easy to switch media
Not really sure what i would use this for. Wire wheel first.media blaster second. This last
both of those take your time....I would rather spending my time doing things that make me money in the shop and let the tumbler do the work for me
Will this clean horseshoes
Those bolts are stainless steel, but are dirty with rust.
Noob Advice - don't use liquid with the corn husk/dry-Shine/polishing media, just the early stages with green pyramids or other cutting abrasives.... guess how I learned that lesson?
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Trying to buy dimond clear. The "fabforums" discount code is not working.
the code is "thefabforums"
Thanks, figured I was entering it wrong. I should have tried that.
no problem
What I really can't understand is how can the motor of the Tumbler afford the long time working? What type of motor or wiring??
thats whats it made to do
Just tried to order and free shipping was not included! :(
yeah I think Eastwood was having some issues with the free shipping so I think they made it just discount only....sorry
Hi I need one piece how much
I missed the Friday tag line at the beginning.
lol...yeah I wast planning for this to be a friday video
The discount works but no free shipping
hey Joe. I think Eastwood was having some issues with it....sorry
I wouldn’t have put different parts in the same run
That emblem of yours would’ve been getting damaged from the other stronger parts. I would have rumbled the emblem by itself
Always rumble same metals(tensiles) together and don’t overload the tumbler with too many parts they will damage each other
You would have got totally different finishes running all those parts separately different parts in the same run become harsh media
I know a few women that would sit on the thing for hours.
This is the same process that Snap On used to polish its tools before chrome plating. Granted the machines they use are 16-20 feet across but the results should be the same. Edit: snap on used a water bath with plastic media.
I could see that
Stainless is non magnetic so that's how you can find out if something is stainless
Not all stainless steel is non-magnetic.
Some stainless also rusts.
+patw52pb1 I know but the higher grade stainless is non magnetic
What "higher grade stainless" are you referring to?
patw52pb1 316
But... But but.... it's Friday fool....
lol...I know, it wasn't originally going to be a Friday video so I didn't have the intro in it
12 hours? are you nut? it will be veru quick with chemical solutions and a hard brush!
lol...yeah but that work require you to be doing it your self. I would much rather be spending my time doing something productive vs scrubbing parts. Beside chemical wont polish like this will.
Agree in some leve!, my time is also valuable! makes me crazy wait 12 hour! maybe we can combine two solutions chemical in order to melt most rust out of the part and then clean and polish with the tumbler, I wondering if you tested the tumbler with water in the media and polish paste!
When i was an apprentice I was questioned about why I was doing something a certain way. I told the boss it was because I was lazy. He told me it was a good idea and " a lazy person can often find the most efficient way of completing a task". I think thats relevant here.
Watch the video before y'all comment and make yourself look stupid
Looks identical to the Harbor Freight model and the Harbor Freight is much cheaper
I noticed that too. Most likely made in the same factory.