Red neck Case Tumbler (pat. pend.)

[rhino210]

It’s a raining cats and dogs, you’re out of powder and bullets, can’t go to the range, nothing on the tube and the wife and kids are gone.
What to do?
Drink heavily? Sleep? Re-read the ABC’s of Reloading? All good ideas…but….
I know BUILD something!!!

Take a plastic Folgers coffee can
Some electrical conduit
A motor, speed control and reduction gear from an old house humidifier
A brass female end garden hose repair connector
Electrical tape
An old set of roller skate wheels
Some 2X4’s
An old computer electrical cord
The cover from a 12V a/c adapter
Several screws

And Voila! The first ever Red Neck Case Tumbler (pat. pend)

It turns at 5 rpm on low speed and a blistering 6 rpm on high. It took about 12 hours to polish 100 .45 cases using corn cob media mixed with crushed walnut, both purchased from the pet store. The indented handles on the coffee can stirred the can every time it turned. The electrical tape on the main roller and the coffee can provided additional friction so the roller didn’t just spin in place. The brass garden hose end spins within itself at the other end of the main roller and I used some RCBS case lube for lubrication.

Total amount invested less than $5.00 and about 2 hours in the garage! Man Country!

I’ll post the pics in the following threads

 

[rhino210]

Red Neck case Tumbler Pics

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[Jacka L Ope]

Nice. Looks (sort of) like an old-style rock tumbler.


Cheers!

 

[layusn1]

Dude, I don't know why but thats just seriously disturbing. Good job though. Thats taking do it yourself reloading to a new level.

 

[CZ223]

Good job!

Just like the other guy said, looks like an old rock tumbler. Twelve hours does seem a little long but hey, use what you got. I like it.

 

[Guy B. Meredith]

Hey, rock tumblers work fine. I've been using a Thumbler Tumbler for years: I tired of the noisy vibratory thingees after a very short time.

Mine doesn't look as nice as this one does from several angles.

Very impressive.

 

[Dave R]

I'm impressed. Good "yankee ingenuity."

 

[rhino210]

Who you calling a yankee boy! Texan born & bred!!!

 

[scrat]

im impressed big time. that is some fine work. good job.

 

[Picknlittle]

LOL! That's very similar to a rotary drum processor I made for processing color photos in my homemade darkroom

I also made my own studio lighting complete with modeling lights using several portable flash units.

In my case I was determined and broke.

 

[Navy_Guns]

Gee, I got ~5,000 7.62 x 51mm cases to clean... If I build one of those coffee can tumblers I might get through them all by the end of the century!

Actually, I was thinking of making one with a 30-gallon drum. Then I saw the True Value hardware ad this weekend - they got a lawn roller for about $90that looks like it could hold 25 pounds of walnut media and all 5,000 of my rifle cases (gotta pour them in through the cap in the end). I could take my 30-gallon drum and make one for about $20. Hell, hook it up to the John Deere, grab a six pack of beer, and in 2 hours I can have the whole yard mowed, a good buzz, and all my cases shiny clean.

THAT, my friends, is a REAL red-neck case tumbler!!!

 

[sansone]

my son has a rock tumbler, we fight over it

 

[Walkalong]

Excellent use of free time.

 

[rhino210]

I originally thought that an “Odjob” brand cement mixer would make a great tumbler drum for processing large case amounts. If you’re not familiar the Odjob it is for mixing a single bag of concrete at a time by rolling it around after adding water and concrete. They are pricy but with the heavy construction and indentions to mix things up as it rolls, I would only have to soup up the power and size of my “Red Neck Case Tumbler (pat. pend) frame to make it work.

Not that I need a larger case tumbler but I’m sure you understand that “bigger is better”
(or was it something else about over compensation?)

Odjob Concrete Mixer

 

[SSN Vet]

Good "yankee ingenuity."

now that was a fine compliment!

unless your still fighting the "war of northern aggression"

 

[Dave R]

Who you calling a yankee boy! Texan born & bred!!!

OOoooops. Sorry to offend. Inexcusable, especially considering I'm a Texan living in Idaho. Apologies.

 

[The Bushmaster]

I hate "politicaly correctness"...Still good yankee enginuity...

 

[1 old 0311]

Let me guess. Your Rock Crusher REALLY is a 'rock crusher.'

 

[wcwhitey]

You call it "Redneck Engineering" we call it "Yankee Inginuity". Same difference, different accent. Amazing what alot a spare parts and spare time can accomplish. Good Job, necessity is the mother of invention. Bill

 

[cracked butt]

Ingenious.

I always knew that the plastic folgers cans were good for something special with the built in handles (baffles) but I could never quite put my finger on it.