Parts tumblers are used for the finishing, polishing and deburring of both plastic and metal parts. There are two main types of parts tumblers: rotary tumblers and vibratory tumblers. Able to remove burrs, rust, slag, scale and other undesired materials on the parts, parts tumblers can be used for small and fragile parts as well as large and bulky parts.
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Grand Northern ProductsByron Center, MI 800-968-1811 For more than 25 years, Grand Northern Products has been a leader in the surface finishing products industry. We offer our customers a wide variety of surface finishing solutions, including abrasives, parts tumblers, buffing equipment, parts washing equipment, vibratory equipment, engineered refractories and grinding equipment as well as spare parts.
Giant Finishing, Inc.Wood Dale, IL 800-404-4268 At Giant Finishing, Inc., we specialize in supplying our customers with a complete line of loading and unloading equipment, parts tumblers and a wide variety of other equipment and supplies. We have more than three decades of experience in our industry, and we're confident that we can meet your company's needs for parts tumblers and supplies. Call or visit us online today!
Rosler Metal Finishing USA, LLCBattle Creek, MI 269-441-3000 For more than half a century, Rosler has been setting the standard for quality in the parts tumbler equipment industry. Our finishing equipment products are second to none anywhere else in the business. We're proud to offer our line of mass finishing, shot blasting and grinding equipment to our customers, and we look forward to connecting your company to the resources it needs.
Engineered AbrasivesAlsip, IL 888-498-0895 Engineered Abrasives has been serving its customers with quality surface finish equipment and parts tumblers since its founding in 1935. We are and ISO/TS 16949 certified job shop, so you can be assured that your products will be of the highest quality. We've designed many custom abrasive and peening systems for our customers - come to us with your designs and see how we can help you.
Finishing Associates, Inc.Warminster, PA 800-220-3472 Since 1986, Finishing Associates has offered quality polishing, radiusing, deflashing, surface improvement, edgebreak and deburring solutions to its customers. Just a few of our products including bowl finishing machines, parts tumblers, blasting systems, centrifugal disks and a wide variety of other equipment. Call us or visit our website to learn more.
Mass Finishing, Inc.Howard Lake, MN 888-260-6277 In 1995, Mass Finishing, Inc. was founded to better meet the surface finishing needs of clients all over the world. Since that time, MFI has grown into one of the most important and well-regarded finishing supply companies in the industry, and we've established a worldwide customer base. Our parts tumblers are second to none in quality, and we look forward to proving that to you.
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Parts tumblers are utilized in such wide-ranging industries as: automotive and aviation, for transmission splines, bearings, fuel injectors, castings, engine pistons and more; electronics, for electronic enclosures, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other types of computer hardware; construction, for building materials and hardware such as fasteners and tiles; and industrial manufacturing, for automation and processing equipment parts. Two of the most common applications of parts tumblers are rock tumblers and jewelry tumblers; these two types of tumblers are widely used in commercial industries. When deciding whether to use a rotary parts tumbler or vibratory parts tumbler, the advantages of each type must be carefully considered. For instance, while rotary tumblers are very quiet, vibratory tumblers offer increased load capacity, decreased finishing time and a smoother polish.
The two main types of parts tumblers are fairly similar in construction. A rotary parts tumbler consists of a hexagonal or cylindrical barrel, a base, a drive, a motor and a gear assembly. In order to create the deburring action, a rotary parts tumbler utilizes rotational movement with the addition of abrasive tumbling media that enables a sliding action to occur. Various types of tumbling media include small abrasive steel, ceramic, plastic and organic such as corn cob and walnut shells. Vibratory parts tumblers consist of many of the same basic parts, a barrel, a base, a motor and a drive, but do not require any moving parts. Vibratory parts tumblers function by agitating in a side-to-side motion at high rates of speed, causing friction to occur and, thus, continuous grinding amongst the enclosed parts. Both types of parts tumblers can be used for wet and dry deburring. Wet deburring includes the use of a liquid deburring compound that has been formed by mixing a liquid such as water with a solid media, which is typically abrasive grit. Dry deburring media, on the other hand, can be used but is not necessary since parts tumblers can provide deburring action without them. There is enough friction created amongst the parts through the vibrating and rotating forces created by the two types, that deburring can be accomplished through those motions alone.
