Comment on Ideas on how to get a better surface?
CaptainFlintlockFinn@lemmy.ca 10 months agoI’ve thought about attaching a jar to my drill and turning the part in some kind of medium.
What kind of parameters need adjusting for your process?
Comment on Ideas on how to get a better surface?
CaptainFlintlockFinn@lemmy.ca 10 months agoI’ve thought about attaching a jar to my drill and turning the part in some kind of medium.
What kind of parameters need adjusting for your process?
MxRemy@lemmy.one 10 months ago
doing that is going to create a rotary tumbler. i think for this specific object that might work totally fine, but it might be too rough for anything with fine details or sharp angles. vibratory tumblers are more likely to keep the object’s overall geometry intact, whereas rotary ones will eventually sand things into kind of an ovoid shape?
as for parameters, the main ones are which grit levels for each stage, how long to run it for each stage, which tumbling medium to use, and how much water. i haven’t really ironed out any general guidelines but in my experience (perhaps obviously) most plastics don’t need nearly as long as most minerals.
it doesn’t seem like many people have gone this route yet, so if it works out, please post about your process!
CaptainFlintlockFinn@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I just looked in to a vibratory tumbler, they aren’t cheap!
MxRemy@lemmy.one 10 months ago
You’re not wrong… 😅
I am fortunate enough to work somewhere that has one, although we also make it available to the public!