<div><div>Brilliant thinking! That could very well work! I have some on hand to try. Cool thing is if it fails, it's not broken.</div><div><br></div><div>In a few days I'll have my first couple of protein jars and will try that. </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Andrew Plumb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org">andrew@plumb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
How about magnets on the outside (out of the way of the rollers) and ferrous-something (possibly coated in silicone or other inert material) on the inside?<br>
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Andrew.<br>
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On 2011-07-03, at 4:47 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:<br>
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> Um, because water is involved, I'm a bit concerned about screwing through it.<br>
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> Also, by doing something that interferes with the outside roundness of the jar, it might not roll on the tumbler.<br>
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> I'm not dismissing it. It sounds better the more I think of it but it still requires the right solvent to seal it up...<br>
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:40 PM, mike Jans <<a href="mailto:mjans@live.com">mjans@live.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Do you think the jar is tough enough to screw through? If so, you could press the agitators against the inside of the drum and screw into them from the outside.<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com">darcy@siteware.com</a><br>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 13:24:09 -0400<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a><br>
> Subject: [Lab] protein jar tumblers<br>
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> I finally found some empty plastic protein jars to use for my rock tumbling project. They are large (like a gallon) and they have a wide mouth. The plastic is very tough so I think they will be okay as rock tumblers. They may be made of vinyl I'm not sure.<br>
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> Anyways, any ideas of how to install rubs inside them so the rocks don't just slide inside?<br>
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> I'm just a little concerned that it will be hard to glue unless I can find the right solvent.<br>
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> One thing I thought of is to add a disk underneath the lid. So when you go to add the lid (like a peanut jar lid), you first put down a disk as if it were a seal. The lid would go over top of this disk and hold it in place.<br>
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> Then the disk could have some agitators attached to it so that as the assembly turns the agitators rotate inside the container and make sure the stones don't slide.<br>
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> Any thoughts?<br>
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> <a href="http://mambohead.com/2011/06/rock-tumbler-first-run/" target="_blank">http://mambohead.com/2011/06/rock-tumbler-first-run/</a><br>
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