DIY Wind Powered Rock Tumbler
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2023
- I made a wind powered rock tumbler so I can make sea glass. Se my previous videos on tumbling glass using conventional tumblers along with my tests of dry tumbling glass.
Rock and Glass tumbler videos
• Making SEA GLASS with ...
McMaster links
McMaster is expensive but good for prototyping because of how well organized the website is. I started with this shaft and then searched for pieces that would fit on it
www.mcmaster.com/1346K19/
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Ya know... not only are you super artistic with a unique and pleasant design esthetic, but you might also be a genius.
Wow, thank you!
how about you start building a community where you guys just use solar power to power everything, waterpumps etc, that is a video series i would love to watch
my brothers ranch in Argentina is like that and I am trying to convince him to start making videos.
@@HomeMadeModern that is something i would love to see or why not go over there and make a video of that place?
@@HomeMadeModern This sounds very cool. Maybe you could make a mini documentary about the ranch when you visit him.
Also please make a community regardless.
Love the idea of large scale with cement mixer.
I love your more experimental videos like this! I’m going to do something similar but for a film developer(albeit not wind powered, but definitely taking the canister and roller assembly from this). Thanks Ben!
I love this! Awesome that you are building solutions for your specific problem, and in turn, enabling others to learn and get ideas!
thank you! I try to share what I am interested in doing and sometimes that intersects with a broad audience and sometimes it is more niche but either way its fun
So interesting Ben!! Always a treat to see what you're up too. Hoping all is well Bud, Dirty Jersey out!!
Everyone: be very careful of fine glass silica after grinding! It can F up your lungs fast, so best to mask up and keep the work outdoors as much as possible.
yes!!!!
Good build Ben!
thank you!!!
enjoy your wine so you have enough glass. too bad I don't live on that side of the country, I'd give you my empties. love the cement mixer idea.
Cool. I think maybe try a hearing system to speed up or slow down to increase power if needed. Such thing could potentially be connected to a fly wheel system to smooth out the tumbling. Might try a small test of all this. Great, now my todo list just got that much bigger. Ty
Very clever glad to see you are dtill working on this idea/ process.
thank you!!!
You have endless curiosity and energy. Good entertainment and ideas
I appreciate that!
Have you thought about building a case around the barrel? Loose enough to no touch it while in normal position, but tight enough to hold it and make it jump in the right place by itself if something happens.
Very cool Either wind or solar, great ways to tumble in a green way.
it can be if they are used long enough to account for the materials
Love this!
thank you David!
I've recently become interested in fossils and minerals, so you building a rock tumbler of all things, is such a fun coincidence 🙂
Too bad, it takes so long to tumble anything smooth. It's not for the impatient!
yes it does take a while but I like these background tasks while I work on projects that are fast and fun
This is fascinating!
thank you!
what part of the area you from? i live in flamingo hts, overlooking pipes canyon wash, so tell me, what do you do to protect it during those really narly insane winds, cuz as you know, most the wind round here is gusty, its never sustained, and that makes all the difference in these devices longevity,
i thought of using cement mixer too, let us know how that went!!
It looks like you might also be able to use engine cooling fans, if the price at a pick-and-pull were favorable.
To keep the suspended glass dust from forming a gel, you might either buy some Darvan (or other synthetic deflocculant) or try including some wood ash in the liquid (this will initially form lye, which can chemically etch the glass slightly, and dissolves the first small proportion of dust, but will very quickly transform into sodium silicate, which is both less caustic/hazardous as you open the canister, and functions to chemically stabilize the suspension).
great suggestions. I will check that out
nice video
Thanks for the visit
Super.
It'd be a bit more work, but with a fan like that and a small motor, if you hooked up some kind of belt, I think that would fix the inconsistency of the wind, if you turned it into a mini-turbine. Would just need some type of capacitors or battery and some resisters, to throttle down the output.
Nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
Such a clever idea! Wind power! Didn't you have giant used mindmill blades trucked to your house? Go big or go home. Ha. Mahalo for sharing! : )
lol I need a tower for that!
@@HomeMadeModern 2 words. Palm Tree. 😂👍❤️
Neat
Nice way use free wind energy to do work. Looks like those turbine blades would be easy to make with simple tools
I think so and I suspect that spending money on a quality stainless steel shaft and bearing will allow cheap interchangeable fan blades
@@HomeMadeModern Yes by using a quality shaft and bearings with low fiction, even old school wood and fabric windmill blades should perform well
I have never done this, but my intuition tells me that the smooth rotation wastes a lot of potential. Imagine how much more shaken a bottle of water is when you rotate it slowly upside down vs. in a quick motion. Maybe you could have some part that turns the smooth motion into a shock motion.
interesting I should put canisters in the back of my truck since I ride on dirt roads often
i've been using a cement mixer to make sea glass for years you live in the desert just use sand from your back yard
I tried that and it works but the sand breaks down quickly into dust and has to be changed out often.
The reason your rubber band idea didn't work is because you had the gearing fighting itself - the band on the shaft and the larger wheels wanted to go in opposite directions and with different ratios. If you had unscrewed the set screws keeping the wheels locked to the shaft it should have worked, but your final solution was better anyway.
yes you are right!