Harbor Freight Vibratory Bowl Review - Unsponsored (Rock Tumbling)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2018
- Review of the Harbor Freight (Chicago Electric) Vibratory Bowl for use with Rock Tumbling.
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I use this very same machine successfully for rock tumbling but only for the polishing stage. Rotary tumblers are used by me to get rough rocks smooth enough to be polished.
You need to use tumbler media in a vibratory tumbler... so yeah its not working correctly. For rocks ceramic works best because the grit doesn't get stuck in the media so you can change grits without having to swap media.
so, you must know by now that the tumbler needed to be filled about 3/4 up and if you don't have enough rocks you need to add ceramic media to make up the difference.
you have to load it with more rocks to get the tumbling action needed to smooth the rocks better
The bowl should be at least 2/3rds full
i think you need to add more rock and water
This tool is ONLY used for polishing, steps 2,3,and 4. This initial grinding, step 1, is done in a rotary tumbler. Also, you need to add more rocks or ceramic pellets to your batch.
When the bowl is correctly 2/3 to 3/4 full, the rocks will slam into the interior retaining washer. Replace the interior washer with one has a smaller radius.
You had me at 3 glasses of red wine… but imma keep watching to see if I should buy this thing 🤣😁
Doing a update on the harbor freight vibrating tumbler?
So how do the finished rocks look after step 4? Any updates? I’m trying to use the machine for steps 2-4 with ceramic media. Doing step one in rotary using plastic media. Trying to speed up my process. Any tips?
I'm a newbie just ordered, a vibe , ( not received yet) ,
At 4.30 the tumbler motion looks all wrong ? , the stones should get moving from the outer edge of the bowl towards the stem of the bowl ? , if they are just shaking like this will they still polish please?
I am using one right now; this very machine. I've done two large batches (about 14# each) with the Step 1 grit. I'm using it to smooth, not necessarily 'round' the stones. Using mixed sizes of stones from small marble- to hand-sized rocks, and it's doing a wonderful job in less than a full day for each batch. I check about every two hours. Unfortunately the machine I'm using is one that was discarded by an industrial entity and it has developed a leak in the bottom of the bowl (which obviously had a lot of wear). I love this machine and will just get a new bowl. Most of my stones/rocks are quite smooth to begin with, but just the first step has made them stunning when wet. My goal is just to get them as polished as that 'wet' look. Did you figure out that the bottom spout is for attaching a rubber drain with hand-clip open/close? Allows you to drain and/or save your media if it's not worn out. I'm not new to collecting but am new to polishing. Every source I checked mentioned that rotating tumblers are far more effective for producing round stones while vibratory are faster and great if you care less about having 'round' stones. I'll try to remember to add a note after I've finished the current two batches but am dead in the water now till I get a new bowl.
Cool. Trying to remember, I think I pondered the spout for adding liquid to the aggregate/media - sounds like dry media if small enough would also work though. I think the bowl was HD/LD PE plastic - you might be able to layer some milk carton sides over the hole or something like that in the interim. PE can be melted to bond, but adhesives don't typically work well. (Polyethylene) You might be able to screw it in though as a simple short term patch. Just thinking out loud. :)
Hey thanks for the review, appreciate your look at this. I would definitely line the interior and exterior with truck bed liner as well as the lid, masking off the seal areas then when the coating was completely set up i would glue the rubber seals in place for permanence. I would also completely check out and modify if necessary any of the mechanisms (knowing HF).
Thanks for the suggestions!
Harbor freight isn’t as bad as they used to be lol many of their stuff today is actually about as good as everyone else’s stuff.
Just run across you video, very well presented. since its been 4 years since you msde it how did it hold up?
We use it sporadically so it'd be hard to say how it holds up long term with consistent use. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
@@someoneinncarolina Thank you
great job, more depth than the product commands. cant wait for nrxt review rotary tumbler ?
Most of the hounds I know use a rotary tumbler to round the rocks then finish them in a vibratory to final polish. This just occurs on certain types of rocks I am told. I am just learning myself.
Good to know. Thanks.
do step 1 and 2 in a rotary tumbler or you will wear the tub out . after step 1 and 2 in the rotary then you can run step 3 and 4 in the vibratory and it doesnt wear the tub so bad
More rock and maybe sum ceramic pellets to fill the space would help rawnd them out
Thank you for posting this video I had recently purchased this 120 V vibratory bowl. I haven’t even opened up the box yet and I would be taking it back to Harbor freight today! Thank you fir your video.
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using the medium they use for metals work well and filling the bowl almost full with medium and stones will give you the rotation you are looking for that was happening with the rotary tumbler/ For more information research VIBRATING FLAT LAP ROCK POLISHER LAPIDARY TUMBLER
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Use the vibratory for the last two stages and the rotary tumbler for the first two. Also national geographic tumbling grit is horrible. Polly plastics is better.
There is a tube with a clamp that attaches to the drain he thinks is in the wrong place. 🙄
It did come with the tube spout in the wrong place. Mine did as well. The bolt goes in the drain hole at the bottom and the tube goes in the overflow hole near the top.
“Industrial vibrator”
That tumbler is more for cleaning brass gun shells and rusty/greasy tools. Your better off getting the barrel tumbler from harbor freight.
I herd these are garbage for rock tumbling yea i didn’t want the HF rock tumbler and my boss buys me it and sure as shit it won’t spin the barrel it does like one lap n gets stuck and I seen a video where a guy hooked up a wheel from a roller blade or whatever and that kept it from doing what it’s doing to me. There cheap made in China so you get what you get
I've been investigating rotary rock tumblers thru Harbor Freight. They are poorly rated. This is also carried by Harbor Freight. For the rotary version every step has to run for a week. If I remember correctly. I don't think any of them round your stones or take out cracks. Hoping you had better luck with the machine as time progressed.
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Hmmm...obvious the hen pecked???
Haha, I had to look up that term. My wife would strongly disagree - I am extremely stubborn. That said, I try to encourage her hobbies. :)
@@someoneinncarolina
Ran across ya pondering tumbler purchase...could not help but comment...a hen is far better then a Rooster...nice to hear ya have one!!!
@@foresakentonone4148 Thanks!
I'm disappointed. I saw this tumbler being used in this young genius guy that builds robots. I don't believe this is for rock tumbling. His media was nearly full. It is used for deburing rusty parts and cleaning up edges etc. This fellow was making a robot to assemble a 4000 piece all white puzzle. For the scanner to read the puzzle parts, the pieces couldn't have fuzzy edges. He cleaned up the edges of a cardboard puzzle so they were perfect. I wish you would have reviewed this for what it was meant for. Cleaning up parts.
I don't think that is made for rocks.