new tumbler report

My Thumler's tumbler came in this week. I've run two batches through it using the stainless pins, water and dish soaps. It works as advertised, very clean, as new brass after about four hours. I have two complaints, relatively minor. One is the base is rather lightly made and flexes a bit. The other is the nylon bushings that the axles turn on, they squeal and squeak like they are burning up. I put some dry graphite on after the first load and that worked for the second batch, but when I started my third batch this morning all the bushing were squalling again. This time I used Never Sieze, we'll see how it goes. I may be making my own base with axles that have bearings some time in the future.

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