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cwilk

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I had the loudest tumbler in the world so I ordered a new one from Harbor Freight 10 days ago when I saw the price had gone down to $19.99. It was on my doorstep when I got home after detecting today. Fired it up with $20 in quarters, gravel, water and dishwashing soap as a test. Ran it for an hour to get the dirt off and plan on 7 more hours to brighten them up. I'll post after pictures too. It's very quiet and I can run it right in the room I'm in. $27.00 shipped. I am in no way affiliated with Harbor Freight nor am I endorsing them.

I know it has been debated to clean or not to clean and I'm not trying to start any further debate. It's interesting to me and might be to somebody else as well.

Chris

The tackle box is my treasure chest and the rolled coins were cleaned with my old tumbler. I put all my jewelry, silver coins, cars, cleaned coins and notebooks, scales and other non field metal detecting stuff in it. Relics in another tackle box. Coins to be cleaned in another tackle box. The jars are Zinc Pennies and Copper Pennies. Yes, I cleaned Wal Mart out of tackle boxes one day.
 
Yeah I've used a HF tumbler for a long time. If you have problems with the belt breaking just pick up some wide ( quarter inch ) rubber bands and they work great and so much cheaper.

Bill
 
Mine only lasted a couple of hours. Buy a bag of large rubber bands. I put two on my double barrel and they have about 24 hrs on them without breaking. Make sure you lube those plastic bearings. Have fun with it.
 
I am using the supplied belt (They included a spare too) and it is still going strong after ten hours of use. The only problem I had was that the belt had to be adjusted and the four bolts that had to be loosened did not have the easiest access.Had lock washers that just wouldn't bite so I had to remove two access covers and use pliers to keep them from turning to loosen them sufficiently to move the motor. After adjusting it ran for 8.5 hours without incident. I appreciate the advice and next time I go to Walmart I'll get a big bag of rubber bands. Here are my nice clean quarters. Has anybody ever found a silver coin they only discovered after cleaning? I was hopeful at one time but after cleaning 17 rolls of quarters and 14 rolls of dime my only surprise has been a British 10p piece.

Good luck Gang!

Chris
 
[quote cwilk] Has anybody ever found a silver coin they only discovered after cleaning?

Chris[/quote]Nope. I check qall my coins before I put them away. I don't clean them.
 
On one adjustment you just loosen the screw on the small pulley and slide it back and forth. I went through my two belts in nothing flat, bought two more and they lasted no time, then switched to the big, wide, rubber bands So much cheaper. All those belts are are 'O' rings.

Bill
 
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