sirgknight
07-03-2011, 08:48 AM
My brother is a taxidermist and he acquired a discarded dryer with a bad heating element, free for just hauling it off. As most of us know a dryer runs on 220-240V. The motor runs on 110v and the heating element on 110v. My brother discarded the element and changed the wiring to run just the motor so he could run the dryer on a 110v circuit. He then sealed the vent inside the drum to keep the media from falling out during tumbling; I think he just used duct tape for this. Whaalllah!....a huge tumbler is created. So, this just goes to show that a dryer can make a very good tumbler, without mess. The only reason you see a mess in this pic is because my brother had just completed tumbling a bunch of hides and he's a little messy pulling the hides out of the media and just dumping it on the floor. I could see where one could place a large amount of brass in a net bag of something similar and tumbling them this way without any mess at all. Thought this may give some of you an "idea" to pursue. Good luck.....
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