A Fifty-Pound Truck-Tire Rock Tumbler: Specifications and Experiences

I built the monster for more capacity and as an engineering challenge. I didn't set out to write a document, but it was an entertaining way to get better at Framemaker. Page 2 contains a schematic view of what I built. Beyond that the document speaks for itself...
Alan Silverstein

Here is the construction document   BigTumbler.pdf   (updated Dec 17 1999)

some improvements : Tire tumbler revised door design   (March 27 2003)

four nice photos of the big tumbler


Now Alan Silverstein also has a Homepage : http://frii.com/~ajs/

Directly to Alans Collected Information on Rock Tumbling !

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