I wish I could loan you my tumbler.

whats a tumbler?

www.riogrande.com/Member...

spins the wires with pellets and it hardens the wire as well as polishing it. also used to polish stones

what does that do? Im not a jewellery person

Very, very useful! We use it on our chainmaille jewelry. Throw the jewelry in the drum, with some tiny steel pellets and burnishing

solution.

Turn it on and it goes round and round.

The steel pellets (or whatever kind of pellets used) helps to harden the metal, and it also shines it up nicely.

Cuts down a lot on the work time.

gah can't even find a nice second hand one on fleabay

noone seems to sell second hand things anymore

try requesting it on freecycle

yeah i'll get stewart to do it later he has an account there

Even the cheapest one on Rio Grande site $90+ US.

nearly got a kiln off freecycle but got beaten to it

maybe I need to look into freecycle.

US is cheaper but the cost to convert the electrics would be silly

I should have thought of that.

Scarlet - as at a gun club - they use tumblers on bullets - you can usually get a good one for a good price second hand (or so im told)

that should read 'try at'

we don't have gun clubs

but next time the farmers are out on a pheasent shoot i'll have a word with them

pheasant rather

that would be an option

thanks for the suggestion

you're welcome - Ive been meaning to contact the local rifle club to see if I can get one myself

if not it wil;l have to go on my wants list. hubby may have an expensive christmas with kiln and tumbler.

LOL