Commercial parts tumbler

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Rick Nelson, Curious if you followed up on buying a shot blaster or shaker machine...

This past week I took some misc steel brackets and fasteners (mostly bolts) down to
a LARGE commercial parts rebuilder Ive made a connection with.

They use a couple of LS branded Shakers with Alum star shaped media, to agitate and clean with. I ran several original galvanized disc brake dust shields thru the shaker and it did a very nice job of cleaning without damaging the galvanized finish....whereas any other process using abrasives would damage.

Ran misc stamped steel brackets and brake calipers thru shot blaster (very fine size ??)
in minutes cleaning everything.....Ready for primer ready for rebuild.

I'm convinced a shot blasting machine is the #1 item that saves huge amount of glass bead cabinet time.

The shaker is also a huge time saver on cleaning, restoring die cast alum finishes etc...