Where do your tumblers run?

Vibratory tumbler on the floor in the basement, which is where all my reloading on firearms relates stuff is.

-Jeff

Vibratory cleaner runs on my workbench in the garage... there is not enough room to set it on my reloading bench.

Stay safe.

Berry’s vibratory tumbler on the end of the counter in my shop (separate from my reloading bench).

Basement floor far corner of the "furnace" area.

Thunders Tumbler here.

I have it in a large wooden ammo crate sitting on a rubber mat in my reloading room. Actually quiet enough to reload & listen to music while running with the lid closed. Prior to my sound dampening efforts I'd only run it when not reloading.

labnoti said:

My inquiry is not just what room, but where the tumbler runs. Is it on your bench? On the floor? A cart? a stand? on a bucket?

The floor is kind of a pain unless you like squatting or kneeling to use it. On a bench, it can rattle everything else on or in the bench or cabinet. Do your tumblers have their own bench?

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I run either a RT or VibeT on the garage concrete floor, that way it can't fall onto the floor.
Then pick it up, and do any loading/unloading on my work bench.
If I'm working in the garage while tumbling, I'll drop a cardboard box over it when the noise becomes annoying.
I've never had a tumbler overheat with a box over it, even when it's near 100 degrees.
guess I'm lucky,

Garage floor 12 months of the year

In the shed. Fellow I know used to run his in the basement of the telephone exchange he worked at.

Too old to work on stuff on the floor. Mine sits on my folding shooting table in the workshop after hours, on a timer. An old dryer sheet keeps the dust at bay.

I have a small table built from angle iron and a wood top that my father in law rescued from a locomotive repair shop. He worked for the L&N RR. I have my vibrating tumblers and separator on the table. The table is located in my reloading area of the basement.

The wet tumbler has not found a home yet but I do not use it very often. Currently, when used, it sits in the middle of the auto shop floor. I store it on a shelf in the basement.

Rotary tumble on the floor of a spare bedroom in the basement.

My loading bench in my garage, while I mow the yard, with the door open..

Thewelshm

Two Midway 1292 tumblers on 12" concrete patio tiles outside my shop with the lids removed. A slight breeze will take the dust away and the media lasts longer.

My Lyman dry tumbler I ran any place, study, garage, or any place I could just close the door. The wet FART (oh that doesn't sound right) I always run outside on the patio. It is close to my buckets and a place to get rid of the dirty water. Any leaks also won't be an issue.

On the patio if the weather is nice, closed up in the bathroom if it isn't.
Patio-on the cement slab
Bathroom-on the tile floor

I have a Harbor Freight cement mixer that I use for both dry and wet tumbling (as well as mixing cement and a gravel road patching compound). It lives in a sheet steel lean-to behind my garage. The floor of the lean-to is gravel mixed in with the local clay soil, spread back on the site and then compacted.

I also have a Frankford Arsenal vibratory tumbler. It now lives on a countertop in my garage. I have it on top of a Harbor Freight "anti-vibration" rubber mat they sold back in the early 1990's. They don't sell the mat any longer, but it is very effective.

Only have vibratory. When it runs, it's on the opposite end of the reloading room in the basement.

labnoti said:

My inquiry is not just what room, but where the tumbler runs. Is it on your bench? On the floor? A cart? a stand? on a bucket?

The floor is kind of a pain unless you like squatting or kneeling to use it. On a bench, it can rattle everything else on or in the bench or cabinet. Do your tumblers have their own bench?

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Just on the front porch concrete floor on an old rubber mat. I also put them on a timer so I set it and forget it. Not any noise to bother me. I guess it really matters not as long as you put whatever you have where any noise it makes doesn't bother you. I did have a few on a bench on a mat but needed the space and truth be known bending down to retrieve them is likely good for me.

I should confess that I did buy a motorcycle lift to work on the bike as kneeling or squatting for hours is a tad more than just picking up a tumbler bowl.

Ron

I have a rubber friction pad, and a piece of cardboard on top of that. Machine on the cardboard (thumler B) in my basement.

Legionnaire said:

On the floor in the garage, whether wet or dry.

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lightman said:

On the floor in the garage. Both wet and dry.

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warnerwh said:

On the garage floor.

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Same here.

Outside on the back patio, where I have an outlet for power.

GW Staar said:

A bit off subject, but I guess an ID wont hurt. Remington M600 .243. High Dollar....$105 new back in 1972.

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Nice Rifle! Sorry for the thread hijack!!!

I run both of mine on the bench. They are connected to timers and automatically run and shut off after the correct time. I run them at night after I leave my reloading shop so there is no problem with noise or vibration.

Mine is homebuilt rig that is just under 2 gallons in capacity. It's large and heavy so it stays on the basement floor where I have room.

I have three benches/tables as well as a wall high shelf. One is a bullet casting area, one bench contains 3 presses and one bench contains powder, drill press, loading manuals and a mini cut off saw.
The shelves hold loaded rounds, Coated bullets, small oven for baking powder coat, and containers for brass that is dirty or in some stage of prep. So room is something I'm lacking.

Stopped my vibratory tumbling on my bench after my yearly lead test elevated enough for State health authorities to give a call.

Went to wet pin tumbling in the garage. Count is lower now.

[Inside range is a contributor, too.]