The Kitiki Professional Barrelling Kit For Jewellery, Silver, Gold, Art Clay, Metals, and PMC.

The Professional Tumbler Kit is generally used for polishing jewellery and metals, although it has other applicatons. It's ideal for putting a lustre on gold, silver, and pieces made from Art Clay metal clays and PMC silver clays.

The kit comprises a motor base, a 950cc rubber drum, 500gms of mixed-shape corrosion-resistant stainless-steel shot, and 225cc of barrelling compound to keep the drum, the shot, and your work clean.

Tumblers and polishers can be used to refine, matte, or gloss the surface on brass, bronze, cartridge shells, castings, coins, copper, fashion accessories, fingerprint keepsakes, glass, gold, gun components, jewellery, keys, metals, minerals, model parts, rocks, shells, silver, small treasures, and stones. And there are diverse archeological, engineering, geological, hobby, and industrial applications.

Prices here are transparent: the kit prices include a UK-EU voltage and CE-marked motor base, a rotating drum, abrasive or polishing media, comprehensive instructions, UK VAT, and continuing free support from a top-tier international distributor. So you can start work straight away.

You don't have to buy a complete kit. All the components for all the kits are available separately, so you can mix-and-match the combination you need. To learn more about the separate parts, use the separate parts link.

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The Kitiki Professional Tumbler Kit For Art Clay, Gold, Jewellery, Metal Clays, Metals, PMC, And Silver.

The kit comprises a CE Marked motor base, a 950cc 135mm x 113mm diameter rubber drum, 500gms of mixed-shape corrosion-resistant stainless-steel shot, and 225cc of barrelling compound to keep the drum, the shot, and your work clean. The kit uses the Kimber Allen Evans Junior motor base.

The motor is rated at 230V-240V 40W, so can use a regular mains socket. It's fully-enclosed inside a vented aluminium case rather than, as with some tumblers, exposed at one end: so it's less prone to damage and damp, and takes up less space.

Including the barrel, it measures 200mm x 130mm x 200mm high, weighs about 3kg, and comes with a 1.8 metre cable ending in a UK 3-pin plug. Plastic protectors stop the tumbler marking your work-top, or slowly creeping and falling off.

The barrel revolves on two plastic rollers, one of which is turned by the motor. There are two roller-ball barrel end-stops and a nylon-reinforced toothed drive belt which can be adjusted for tension, although it's intended to be loose.

The 950cc drum is often called a full-size or 3.0lb drum. However, as it holds 950cc of water, about 950gm, it's really a 2.09lb drum. So, if you see it described elsewhere as having an actual capacity of 3.0lb, it doesn't.

As you can see in the photo, the 950cc rubber drum uses the full width of the tumbler body, but you can use two smaller 510cc drums at the same time. For some types of work there's an alternative 1000cc pro rubber drum which has two vanes inside to help the mixing and tumbling action.

The shot, a mix of nine different sizes of pins and balls, is made for us from high-quality, slightly-magnetic, rust-resistant, stainless steel. It's worth asking yourself why a well-known craft retailer is selling similar-looking shot at nearly three times the price.

It's in 250gm bags: either mixed balls and planetoids or mixed pins and rods. Kits include the correct amount for the size of the drum: 500gms, 1000gms, 1500gms, or 2000gms. For this kit, 500gms of shot is right for the drum size: 250gms wouldn't be fully effective and 1000gms would slow down the rotation.

The cleaner is a mix of chemicals that inhibit corrosion and keep the drum, shot, and your work clean. It's not regular washing-machine powder. It comes in a plastic screw-top pot: not a plastic bag, and not a pot that can't be closed once the seal has been broken.

The instructions for all the tumblers and polishers can be printed here, using the instructions link below the menu bar near the top of the page.

The Kitiki Pofessional Tumbler Kit For Glass, Metals, Minerals, Rocks, And Stones.

If you've already bought this tumbler for jewellery, metals, gold, and silver, but now want to try glass, metals, minerals, rocks, and stones, you'll need a three-grit pack with 400gms of 80 grit, 400gms of 220 grit, and 340gms of 400 grit, 200 gms of zinc oxide polish, and 250gm of plastic pellets.

However, grits and polish are a bit like sandy toothpaste, and cleaning out a drum completely, storing the grit, and swapping back to shot is messy and tedious. And I wouldn't recommend using the same single drum for grits and shot as one stray grit particle in the shot will scratch your work.

You could use two barrels: one for grits and one for shot, marked so that you don't mix them up. But, budget constraints aside, it's much better to use four drums for the three grit grades and the polish, and one drum one for the shot. It makes cleaning and storing easier, especially as the three grits look similar and the polish must be kept grit-free.