goldpelican
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Something's up with my tumbler. 2 years old, probably put 4000 cases through it.
Forgot it was running last night, it had been on for about 5 hours - so went to the garage (it sits on a concrete floor), turned it off, touched the wingnut, and literally heard sizzling. The wingnut and thread must have been something crazy like 300F or hotter - in fact I think the threads annealed, as there's now some missing thread where it vibrated off.
Ran it again this morning for 20 minutes only - same result, near red hot.
Still working though, but now an obvious fire risk.
Any known fixes for getting back to normal operation? Getting super hot like this makes me think there's a bearing needing lubrication somewhere, but it may be beyond saving for the money needed to buy a new one. Might be the excuse I need to move to wet tumbling.
edit - FIXED - see https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...vibratory-tumbler.824854/page-2#post-10615916
Forgot it was running last night, it had been on for about 5 hours - so went to the garage (it sits on a concrete floor), turned it off, touched the wingnut, and literally heard sizzling. The wingnut and thread must have been something crazy like 300F or hotter - in fact I think the threads annealed, as there's now some missing thread where it vibrated off.
Ran it again this morning for 20 minutes only - same result, near red hot.
Still working though, but now an obvious fire risk.
Any known fixes for getting back to normal operation? Getting super hot like this makes me think there's a bearing needing lubrication somewhere, but it may be beyond saving for the money needed to buy a new one. Might be the excuse I need to move to wet tumbling.
edit - FIXED - see https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...vibratory-tumbler.824854/page-2#post-10615916
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