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OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT: This tumbler is for use with dry polishing materials (media). Do not use wet or water based
- Make sure that the interior of the tumbler bowl is dry before each use.
- Fill the tumbler bowl (1) about 2/3 full with polishing media . Add some metal parts as needed up to a maximum of 5 lb of material (including media).
- Place the tumbler lid (2) on the tumbler bowl (1), making sure to get the gasket correctly in place. Add the washer and wing nut (3) to the top and hand tighten firmly.
- Connect the power cord to the nearest power outlet. Press the power switch to the "ON" position.
This tumbler is ideal for many polishing applications including:
- Removing rust or other surface imperfections from hardware
- Removing burrs from machined or stamped hardware or other small parts
- Polishing small or hard to reach small parts
- Removing grease or other contaminants from various metal parts
Corky
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025
We use this to polish small rocks. We did leave the cover too loose once and oh boy, what a mess. Slurry everywhere. After a few minor adjustments and an added nut and rubber washer, it can be left on all night without fear of cover coming off. Get ready for some noise though.
KB
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2025
EDIT: Company contacted me and offered a new unit. I am using the tumbler to clean 3/4" wide pieces of 1x1 angle. If this new tumbler lives I will adjust my review accordingly.TOTAL GARBAGE! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! worked for about 20 to 30 hours of actual "on" time. After having it less than 3 months I went to turn it on and it just hummed as if the motor was trying but couldn't spin. Believing it was my fault I took the plate off the bottom and saw the weight used to create the vibration. If I turned it on and manually spun the weight it would start up. Fast forward 30 days!... NOW NOTHING! After giving it many "technical taps" it is now in 50+ pieces on my garage floor, but at least I got my 95 bucks worth by taking out my frustration on it ;)
Candace Duncan
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024
Love that it is easy to use and set up. Don't like how loud it is but can get used to it.
The Davies family
Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2024
Poor design, lots of noise and minimal polishing and cleaning was accomplished.
nancy
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022
This tumbler has been nothing but a gigantic headache, since day 1.I carefully read the instructuons, and even looked up several youtube videos on the propper use, but none of that mattered.The wing nut and washers they give you to secure the lid, those will loosen, until they work themselves off the machine entirley (as quickly as 1 hr into using it), allowing the tumber to throw grit and slurry a good 10 ft away, in all directions. This happened 4 times befor i went to a hardware store and actually bought locking nuts, because god forbid they provide fasteners that are 10 cents more expensive.I had to place 3 locking nut on, befor they stopped working themselves off. The vibration is so much so, that it actually disintigrates the platic potrion of the nuts in a day or so. This brings me to my last point. The rubber stopper they give u, to raise the metal washers off the lid, that disintigrated too. This allowed the washers to rub aginst the actual plastic of the lid, and it wore a 2inch hole in the lid, rendering the unit unusable now.Note, the machine only ran on and off for a total of 4 days (96hrs). Thats not even enough time to finish a single load. Now Im stuck with 3lbs of half way polished gemstones, and a 80$ piece of garbage.Find a different brand, ull thank urself later
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022
I tumble stones for a hobby and have wanted a vibe for some time. Right now they are hard to come by so when this showed up on sale I thought what the heck. SO I went into this knowing that I fully voided my warranty and they it was NOT designed for rocks. It has a decent motor and easily handled the 7 pound of rock I put in. It did a great job in completing the med stage in about 24 hours. Nothing broke on it and nothing worse out. SO far it is a pretty decent machine- HOWEVER- It is so noisy you cannot be in the same room with it. I run 5 rotary tumblers in a basement room and cannot hear them when I'm outside that room. This thing was noticable upstairs in the room above the rock shop. It was deafing in the room, and very annoying outside the room. OK I was fine with that- I will only run it when no one is around. THe barrel is a real pain to clean out as it has all these ridges and creases. It also take a few minutes just to remove all the hardware securing it down. The hardware is of questionable quality and will most likely need replacing in the short term. I am going to save this machine for polishing only as it is not worth cleaning it out for each stage (I won't clean it out for the polish stage, just scoop out the rocks and reuse the polish that remains in it). If you're looking to get this as a "cheap" way into the world of vibe tumbling- well look elsewhere as this is not the unit for you. If you want an occasional metal cleaner I think this would work well enough.Update- The company reached out to me and offered me their "professional" rock tumbler. I said sure why not. They sent a 2 barrel rotary harbor freight knock off. I have run these in the past and they work for a while, Once the belts start breaking and the motor pulleys wear out getting replacement parts can be a pain and expensive. Kudos for there effort.I tried the vibe with polish, and what a mess. The lid came off and made a mess. There is no real way to tighten down the lid adequately so I have given up using this.
Tiffany S.
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2022
Item works well. I purchased 2 at the same time. The first one broke within 3 weeks - mostly because it is kind of difficult to get apart to clean properly. Must be careful that you don't overload or it will shake the top nut right off and contents will go flying. Overall, satisfied with product. There was just a bit of a learning curve for me.
Josh
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2022
This unit is pretty powerful, you must be absolutely sure that the top wing nut is fully tightened or it will vibrate it off, chuck the fender washer and rubber pad five feet away, wear the central hole of the lid to over half again it’s size and then chuck that thing half the length of your garage. Once again I cannot stress enough the need to make sure the top wing nut is on very tight.
Brett W.
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2021
Works really good for cleaning up small engine parts and bolts but works even better with play sandAfter a few months of owning the Shaker and putting it through a lot of use the only problem I've had is the wing nut stripped out it was an easy fix I went to Lowe's and got to 6 X 100 thread nuts and did them as a jam nut problem solved
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