alright so I've got some goodies I mentioned them last week from Eastwood
we're gonna open them up right now I'm gonna show them to you guys and then
we're gonna test it out
hi so this is Eastwood's 18 pound capacity vibratory tumbler it has
instructions I'm gonna read them I promise they'll break this thing open
basically what this thing does is it has media that goes inside of it 18 pounds
were the media I guess depending on the media does certain things
this unit waxes vibrate you can put bolts nuts washers pretty much anything
that's metal and I think even maybe like some plastic parts and that sort of
thing it will vibrate this media around those parts and clean them and polish
them like I said read an instruction so don't know that for sure but we're gonna
find out 7 pounds of green pyramids and 7 pounds of dry shine corn cob sounds
interesting alright they also sent me this metal wash so this says removes
contaminants from metal surfaces prior to coating to be used in Tanks parts
washers and pressure washers inhibits flash rush rust for up to three weeks so
think that I'm supposed to mix this with some liquid put the liquid in with the
media and it will help clean it's turned on see what she sounds like see what
see what kind of tuned she can play
it's pretty serious vibrating vibrations pretty serious vibrations alright put it
off long enough time to read some instructions see exactly how this thing
is supposed to work
all right so basically just scan through the directions two types of media are
first the green pyramids this is mainly for like scaly rusted parts and throw
this in there with whatever parts you want to clean and this will take care of
that the other media the dry shine corn cob is for polishing so it's basically
telling me you have a ratio of 70 70 percent media to 30 percent parts with
the total combinations not going over the 18 pound limit we're not gonna do
that much so there's not gonna think that much media you just get throw some
bolts in here some pieces of metal that I have maybe some we're just gonna test
it out we're just gonna give it a trial run and see what it can do we're gonna
have a control bolt it's basically the bolts that I get out at all gonna be the
same degree of not shiny and we're gonna leave half of them out put the other
half in there and that way when they're done we can pull them out and kind of
compare what we've got so let's do this it says for the polished side it takes
up to six hours so I may start this and then check on tomorrow
all right so what I've done is I've just picked out some random stuff I got some
gussets that were cut for me by one of you guys
it's a actually tff gusset let's see it better like that okay so I'm going to
throw one of those in we're gonna leave one out as a control an exhaust clamp
same way gonna leave one out throwing in as control kind of partially surface
rested bushing want to go in want to stay out sending them with a bolt got
two bolts that are partially rusted when I go and want to stab your standard
no-frills bolt and a washer there you go half will go in the other half will stay
out hey let's do this
so might be a little more media than needed for just those few little parts
all right so I let this thing do this thing let it rock and roll I'll probably
check on it five six hours they let it run up to like 12 hours though make them
back to it in the morning and we'll see kind of difference we've got
all right it is day two it's been about I don't know a little more than probably
12 hours
so this is the one that has been tumbled that's the one that I put in there
before not a whole lot of difference in these two there's still a little bit of
surface for us that thing didn't get off but it did polish it a little bit the
hangers you can see a big difference
so that hanger is one that was tumbled it's perfectly clean that one's kind of
dirty got some surface rust on it the bushings are the same way
so this bushing came very very clean that's the original there there are the
washers
almost like a brand-new washer and there's the bolts I think this is
stainless but I'm not sure I mean it's got rust on it which shouldn't happen if
it's stainless but magnets it's possible that that rust could be from something
else so you can kind of see the difference there and can't really tell
the difference on these automotive bolts I mean this one is shined up a little
bit they weren't really that dirty
probably now that's because I've taken out all the foreign shine media and
replaced it with those green pyramid I mean this video wouldn't be an
official review video if I didn't kind of run through his paces did everything
in offices or at least everything that I had to my disposal
flip a ladder that stuff's a little bit louder right there so this is the deal I
basically took all of the remaining pieces that I didn't already tumble
through them in with the green pyramid media and we're gonna see what it does
to that so you remember what it looked like you just seen just a minute ago
I've run this thing for let's see probably six hours five or six hours
maybe and I'm gonna pull it out wipe it off a little bit a little bit dusty can
I already tell you that this is definitely more of the finish that I
like so it's almost kind of got this etched finish to it kind of itch the
metal a little bit not really a big shine person so this is definitely the
finish that I would like so you can see this was the polished version this is
the etched version so that's those see what else here
so there's your clamp and it for sure looks brand-new now the corn shine stuff
did pretty good of cleaning it but those those green pyramids really gave it a
new look
so there's that bushing remember it was all rusted the thing is legit clear of
rust it's got just a couple little tiny pits that would probably be taken care
of if I ran it for a couple more hours seriously brand-new I mean it's even
better than then the shine did there's the automotive bolt and it has
stripped it of its black oxide coating or whatever kind of coating that is and
it's basically took it back to bare metal or it's on its way back to bare
metal so there's that bolt stainless bolt used to have much of rust right
here and it is clean it is super clean there's the difference like I said it
has more of an etched finish versus a polished finish there's the washer so if
you remember this washer was like a gold color it was dirty but it was also a
gold color that was some kind of coating that comes on these things and you can
see that it is taking that coating clean off
very cool I think this is my media of choice for sure
these little green pyramids getting all the nooks and crannies and clean it real
well and they say that really what happens is these things kind of just
deteriorate to nothing and so you just keep adding media and I think it's got
like a port that should dispose of the dust as it kind of dissolves down to
nothing so I'm gonna probably leave these in here think it's nice about this
too is you can actually detach it you got a cover you can put on it when I
switch the media I just detach this whole tote from the motor was able to
pour it back in the bag and save it for later you did a lot of this stuff you
could probably use like some kind of plastic tubs or something to keep these
in that way you could rotate media I think personally I do a lot of tumbling
I will probably get just get me another one of these have one for each style of
media and that way it's easy to just kind of go from one to the other because
ultimately what you'd want to do is you want to go from this media into the
Polish and really kind of give it an even finer tumble alright guys there you
go the 18 pound vibratory tumbler from Eastwood and make two styles of this so
they make one that's smaller than that I'll put a link in the description for
both of those you can check them out if it's something you think you might want
or use that'd be the place that I would recommend getting it
don't forget Eastwood does offer free shipping and I think right now they've
got a 10% discount running just use the coupon code the fab forums all one word
and that should work for you for any trellis let me know I think it's going
to run through the 1st of the year so you've got what couple more months get
your free shipping and a possible discount all right guys it's all I got
for you today hope you enjoyed that I will see you guys some more this week go
do work son