Vibratory Tumbler

[sswee]

Glass bead.
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[Cartierusm]

What mesh size?

[sswee]

I haven't seen a mesh size on the bags I get. I'll see if I can find out.
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[gcdrummer02]

no clue, i bought mine on sale at Harbor Freight.

[Cartierusm]

I'll check it out, McMaster Carr has them by mesh size.

[CarWiz]

Use baking soda for a nice powder smooth finish. I get my glass beads at HF too but never noticed a size. They're dang tiny, I can tell ya. Invisible on the floor and slick as glass.

Well, I just ran out to the Barn to look. It has #8 Glass Beads printed on the box.

[Cartierusm]

Carwiz, are you serious about the baking soda?

[CarWiz]

Carwiz, are you serious about the baking soda?

Absolutely! It's been a common media for years. Made even more acceptable recently by the "carbon footprint" and "save the Earth" folks.

[CarWiz]

I was looking at mesh sizes and the #8 for the HF glass beads can't be right. Or it's a different standard. #8 shows a mesh size of .0937". I know they're smaller than that at least from my memory. I'll try to remember and measure a few "grains" tomorrow.

[sswee]

Maybe .00937". More than likely .0937mm which is .0036" and sounds about right for what I have.
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