Nuts + bolts tumble method for cleaning ???

[scottyms]

check around for a local cad plater... i can drop my local guy off a box of nasty greasy rusty parts and pieces and get them back plated for less than what your spending on tumblers...
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[mangledsteel]

woah those plated parts are so nice, id like to put alot of swear words before "nice" too. thats insane. how much do you spend on that ? beautiful......

[oldskool83]

thats nice, shure is easier then my why, dish soap wd40 and a tooth brush!

[jeswinehart]

When i dropped the parts off last week the receiving fella said it was NICE prep job and they would take the nickle chrome very well.
And he was right !
I will have more parts done for this project, bigger sand blast-able stuff and I hope they turn out this well.
~* thought I would include a picture of the shock I got back from sblt500r and one of his many after market bling peices (oil cap) *~

john

[3 or die]

I use a tumbler often for cleaning my parts too. They sure do rust quick afterwords. I live in the boonies and the closest plater would be at least 1hr away.

[atc350xer]

I actually tried this a few months ago with my daughter's rock tumbler and some old "Black Beauty" blast media inside... it worked pretty well, but it does take time. What's nice is it gets inside crevices that a wire wheel can't reach, and I do like the rough finish it puts on. I just need to scale mine up for bigger parts...