I Left 5 Things In Rock Tumblers For 30 Days...

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @amosbackstrom5366
    @amosbackstrom5366 4 года назад +200

    The abrasive exposes the zinc under the copper plated pennies. Zinc reacts with water forming hydrogen gas. Usually this process only goes until the zinc forms a passive oxide layer that stops the reaction. But in the tumbler you're constantly removing that protective layer thus the reaction continues until it ruptures.

    • @seanstewart8943
      @seanstewart8943 Год назад +11

      thank you! how is this not the top comment?

    • @bellakeksi8313
      @bellakeksi8313 Год назад +3

      This could be pretty dangerous too right? Isn't this highly explosive? If there was an ignitor nearby wouldn't it have been like a small bomb?

    • @BsedMan-if6tb
      @BsedMan-if6tb 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@bellakeksi8313basically

    • @RichardFarmbrough
      @RichardFarmbrough 4 месяца назад

      @@bellakeksi8313 Yes, very loud but probably pretty small danger if the pressure (and hence quantity of gas) wasn't too much. See videos by Nile Red exploding hydrogen and hydrogen-oxygen mixtures.

  • @ftmdarkdruid9999
    @ftmdarkdruid9999 4 года назад +2404

    When you do these, you should take out one piece every week so you can show a side by side progression.

    • @CompGoblin
      @CompGoblin 4 года назад +55

      Big brain

    • @Buufpaqq
      @Buufpaqq 4 года назад +15

      I bet you felt real stupid when you watched the whole video

    • @YukonTV
      @YukonTV 4 года назад +113

      robloxgamernaenae I bet you’ll feel real stupid when you realize you misunderstood this comment and now just look like a jerk.

    • @Reactiontime6000
      @Reactiontime6000 4 года назад +14

      Yukon
      I bet... umm you have a cat?

    • @JacobJones2148
      @JacobJones2148 4 года назад +1

      @@YukonTV shut up

  • @someguy9654
    @someguy9654 4 года назад +5712

    I think most of us don't truly appreciate what this man does to entertain us. 28min video for us one month of waiting for him. We thank you good sir!

    • @daniellealbert9829
      @daniellealbert9829 4 года назад +16

      Agreed!

    • @wayneanthony6831
      @wayneanthony6831 4 года назад +79

      Not just waiting, dude battled exploding rock tumbler barrels full of mud and pennies and rebuilt a rock tumbler 8 times. He's a champ

    • @squitharri
      @squitharri 4 года назад +8

      We had to wait a month, it's a four week process lmao. I suppose he could have filmed something else but he was also probably editing in between shooting

    • @Alex632
      @Alex632 4 года назад +8

      Too bad he bores tf outta me. This video didn't need to be nearly 29 mins. 15-20 mins of this video is pure garbage.

    • @yungthicci
      @yungthicci 4 года назад +9

      yo Alex ok

  • @scottcol23
    @scottcol23 2 года назад +139

    When I was a kid (early 90's) I got a rock polisher just like the single barrel one you have. I remember spending hours and hours on our really long gravel driveway looking for the perfect rocks to add to the tumbler. I was SO excited when I thought I found a diamond and 2 gold nuggets which were just quartz and a form of pyrite lol. I polished those rocks until they looked like glass. Oh the memories. I still have those polished rocks 30 years later.

    • @kellyngrey4950
      @kellyngrey4950 2 месяца назад

      Did your tumbler happen to be red?

  • @Anenome5
    @Anenome5 4 года назад +1607

    Okay, I have some expertise in using grinding and polishing medium to make ball bearings and I can perhaps shine some light on what's happening here.
    You started with silicon-carbide grit probably in the what 50 micron or higher range, this is to get the really rough rock features down. This grit is INCREDIBLY hard, second only to diamond, and it really only works on materials that are also very hard. So that's why the copper and the dice didn't seem to grind away. The dice, being a plastic, is simply way too soft and light to be cut by the grit. And the smaller grits only made this worse. You would've needed a much larger diamter tumbler, a harder plastic, and a coarser grit as well as perhaps some ball bearings in there to do much with those dice.
    As for the copper, copper is very soft, and so is zinc. So the reason it didn't grind up the pennies is because the silicon-carbide grit actually embedded itself into the copper, effectively giving it a layer of armor plating that couldn't be easily worn away. Silicon-carbide grinds itself only very slowly. That's why you could still read the lettering and whatnot, and why you couldn't scrub off the black color, it's the grit. The smaller grit isn't going to change that later on either. That's why the marbles broke down in size so much but the pennies didn't shrink at all.
    The reason the copper penny barrels kept blowing out is probably because the metal starting to really heat up from all the friction and create a bit of air-pressure that expanded the barrel till it popped.
    The glass is hard enough to be cut by the grit, so it rounded up quite nicely. The marbles and rocks, same story. You need something hard for this process to work.
    The reason they used aluminum-oxide as the polish material is because it will break down over time and turn into a finer and finer abrasive as you run it. Takes a lot longer for the silicon-carbide to break down in the same way.
    You probably would need to run the polish a whole lot longer in order to get the glass and marbles and rocks to be completely smooth and polished. It is entirely possible to get them like that with polishing.
    The way we get things from where you have them to totally polished is by tumbling them dry in a 12" tumbler with sawdust and jeweler's rouge inside, and only about half full. No water.

    • @SandyDiVa
      @SandyDiVa 4 года назад +102

      Michael Eliot this comment should be at the top. I worked in my stepdads machine shop for many years, and we had a large basin tumbler to polish the machined parts. Plastic pellets seemed to polish plastic parts right up, sometimes within hours. But ball bearings were absolutely necessary to polish the metal parts to a shine one would expect from a new product. Very good info here if anyone is interested.

    • @brianstevens3858
      @brianstevens3858 4 года назад +32

      A second reason why the dice are different, having a flat plane they will stack together presenting a single face, kind of like graphite in a sheet, it will allow for slippage plane to plane and not wear the stack like it would a single die. Cutting the "number to cut" back would help, but that plastic is made of some of the most impact resistant stuff we have. It doesn't wear for the same reason the drums are made of rubber.

    • @pammark9632
      @pammark9632 4 года назад +8

      Try hard

    • @omicronixzerus2929
      @omicronixzerus2929 4 года назад +37

      To add to the knowledge thread, the marbles gained flat edges after the first round of tumbling. This was likely caused by a large chunk being removed in the tumbling process. This removal was probably caused either by a larger marble impacting a smaller one, or an unseen fault in the marbles, or perhaps a combination of both. The flat edge was then rounded off near the edges by the further tumbling, but it wasn’t enough to completely remove the defect, as we saw.

    • @Anenome5
      @Anenome5 4 года назад +20

      @@omicronixzerus2929 Yes, it's called a 'conchoidal fracture' and it is the way that all grinding medium affect hard materials. Glass breaks off pieces the same way hard metal does but on a smaller scal. It creates a scale-like shape material removal. And you could see that in the broken piece he showed.

  • @maglev_
    @maglev_ 4 года назад +836

    Her- “I bet he’s thinking about other women”
    Him-“I wonder what I’m gonna put in my rock tumbler next”

    • @carlfiguer1945
      @carlfiguer1945 4 года назад +6

      No. It's other women.

    • @mistresstlc8201
      @mistresstlc8201 4 года назад +11

      @@carlfiguer1945 dude... What do you think "rock tumbling" IS? "Nut" and "busting" one wouldn't have ANY apparent reference to anything sexual if it weren't such a widely used phrase... "Chicken choking", "pressure washing", "rolling in the hay", "doing the laundry", "Netflix and chill", and "rock tumbling"... Times change, man... Young folk just don't talk like they used to lol

    • @chilledstainned1189
      @chilledstainned1189 4 года назад +4

      Mistress TLC lol, nice comment

    • @einstein4peace
      @einstein4peace 9 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@mistresstlc8201t

    • @HeadNtheClouds
      @HeadNtheClouds 6 месяцев назад

      @@carlfiguer1945can it be both?

  • @dependswhosaskin9804
    @dependswhosaskin9804 4 года назад +1361

    I could totally see a couple smashing a wine bottle on they’re wedding and having the glass worn down like this and made into jewelry.
    Edit: if your about to comment something along the lines of “thats sea glass it’s actually already a thing” or “look up sea glass”, I know. The point is the sentimental value of the glass itself, what? Do you think your gonna toss the bottle into the ocean wait a little bit than you’ll have sea glass. The idea isn’t about making the glass itself or the process its about where the glass came from. I appreciate you trying to spread knowledge but half of the comments below are this.

  • @brianartillery
    @brianartillery 3 года назад +57

    That glass is the same as can be found at the beach, washed smooth by water and gravel. Coloured glass looks incredible, treated this way. I'd like to see you tumble a couple of Hot Wheels cars, and some LEGO bricks, and maybe a 3.75" action figure - just to see what gets left, after 30 days.

  • @lenajohnson6179
    @lenajohnson6179 4 года назад +1039

    "I don't know anything about rocks" -Man with 5 rock tumblers

    • @bbarker5766
      @bbarker5766 4 года назад +12

      Technically 3.... with 5 barrels. Lol

    • @myliquidthunder
      @myliquidthunder 4 года назад

      I thought the exact same thing

    • @SpaceCadetLaC
      @SpaceCadetLaC 4 года назад +4

      Boys will be boys.

    • @joeytate6917
      @joeytate6917 4 года назад

      My thoughts too

    • @bbarker5766
      @bbarker5766 4 года назад +11

      @@SpaceCadetLaC the biggest difference between men and boys is the price of their toys!!!

  • @robinhoogewerf6712
    @robinhoogewerf6712 4 года назад +701

    What you have created is Sea Glass. Glass will get into the ocean and through its journey, sand and water frost and smooth the glass. It's used in jewelry quite often.

    • @elisabethrobbins1053
      @elisabethrobbins1053 4 года назад +59

      He created FAUX sea glass... Tumbled glass.

    • @juliovonrosa2147
      @juliovonrosa2147 4 года назад +17

      that same process happens in lakes!

    • @kylieknight2357
      @kylieknight2357 4 года назад +14

      And just beautiful decorations I have collected it and made different things as well as beautiful jewellery for years. The combination of sand sea and the constant tumbling of the tide and waves makes beautiful shapes and consistency never the same they really are special I gave them the name sea gems when I first seen them when I was 6 the name stuck

    • @electricfatman
      @electricfatman 4 года назад +7

      I wonder if it would make a nice wind chime or mobile. Did you forget to show the dice at the end?

    • @robmansfield9986
      @robmansfield9986 4 года назад +1

      www.californiabeaches.com/beach/glass-beach/ my favorite place to go.

  • @waldogtv5486
    @waldogtv5486 4 года назад +620

    Someone might have already said this, but people actually hunt the beaches for glass as after time the waves and sand have that same effect. "Sea Glass"

    • @DellEbright
      @DellEbright 4 года назад +18

      I call it beach glass

    • @richardwoodley3477
      @richardwoodley3477 4 года назад +14

      We called them Mermaid Tears

    • @jehsun3643
      @jehsun3643 4 года назад +7

      NYC/NJ shoreline

    • @LP-XXX
      @LP-XXX 4 года назад +18

      If found what I believed to be a beautiful blue transparent Rock or even gem at a playground with Sand, but it turned out to be a Part of a broken liquer bottle that due to the weather and Sand around it turned out like that. So then I started to put glass shards in bottles with Sand and Water to recreate that effect, but that wouldnt really work haha

    • @Toffee521
      @Toffee521 4 года назад +4

      Bernd 27 you need to add rocks too, the sea has rocks

  • @bentoth2494
    @bentoth2494 3 года назад +574

    With the dice in the rock tumbler, it’s basically just the worlds biggest and longest game of Yatzy 😂

    • @yyexrae5175
      @yyexrae5175 3 года назад +21

      Yahtzee*

    • @tylerschmidt745
      @tylerschmidt745 3 года назад +1

      That’s exactly what I thought

    • @Bleepbleepblorbus
      @Bleepbleepblorbus 3 года назад +5

      And if he used a more course grit he would of made sea dice (and no I don't mean DnD water themed dice I mean dice that's actually tumbled by the ocean)

    • @scottcampbell2104
      @scottcampbell2104 3 года назад

      Did you run out of projects at the shop? If so can you convert my 69 chevy k20 to acummins24valveand auto transmission? Does the shop do charity work?

    • @yyexrae5175
      @yyexrae5175 3 года назад +2

      @@diamondg976 srry I pushed ur buttons buddy, have a good day. (Blows kiss)

  • @feloniousfontaine891
    @feloniousfontaine891 4 года назад +356

    I’ve been tumbling for over a year. There are a couple steps you’ve missed.
    First, for steps three and for you need to add small plastic pellets to the mix. These will help the polish be more effective. You can get these at any rock shop.
    The big step you missed is the burnishing step. All polished rocks will look dull after the final polish until you burnish them.
    After step 4, rinse everything off, then put them back in the tumbler. Add a small amount of dish soap. Tumble for six hours.
    Now you have shiny rocks. I wonder what the glass would look like after a burnishing? Never forget the burnishing step.
    I’d do a glass burnishing tumble but I gave my stuff to a friend.

    • @JacobTechShit
      @JacobTechShit 3 года назад +3

      Yes do that

    • @chrish3720
      @chrish3720 3 года назад +5

      A rock shop? You mean there are shops where you can buy rocks to tumble.
      Wow what a scam!
      Tumbling rock looks so stupid. Why why why?

    • @akunog3665
      @akunog3665 3 года назад +98

      @@chrish3720 i'm sure there is something you enjoy doing that someone would see as stupid. We're all just passing time until we're dead, I don't think rock tumbling is poor form.

    • @chrish3720
      @chrish3720 3 года назад +1

      @@akunog3665 Polishing rocks? A waste of resources. Learn trigonometry are something. Polishing rocks? Learn to reload ammunition, blow something up dude. What is wrong with kids these days. Learn the principles of electricity for heaven sake. Polishing rock? Don't buy rock to polish pick them up off the ground for free!

    • @akunog3665
      @akunog3665 3 года назад +55

      @@chrish3720 and blowing something up is not a waste lol. What about art? Is it a waste to paint a masterpiece, or to compose a song? Is it a waste to sit and watch the sun set?

  • @argusflugmotor7895
    @argusflugmotor7895 4 года назад +778

    “I don’t know anything about rocks, they all look hard to me”- Tyler

    • @jolenetener2719
      @jolenetener2719 3 года назад +5

      my guess is gemstones,package will say what kinds of rocks is included. different gems have different hardnesses and should not be put together for an example 6 hardness with a 9 diamond is 10 whereas talk is 1

    • @jolenetener2719
      @jolenetener2719 3 года назад +1

      talc

    • @KOZMOuvBORG
      @KOZMOuvBORG 3 года назад +1

      @@jolenetener2719 If they were supplied by the tumbler company, assume the samples would be of comparable hardness for better results. But didn't the host admit he doesn't know geology (and didn't read the manual)? If there's a range of hardness, remove the softer ones earlier. The brown one looked like petrified wood.

    • @KOZMOuvBORG
      @KOZMOuvBORG 3 года назад +2

      Sounds like he's cramming for a geology exam.

    • @josephkahn9251
      @josephkahn9251 3 года назад +6

      Wanna know what else is hard

  • @andrealynn776
    @andrealynn776 4 года назад +4854

    When men aren't texting you back this is what they're doing

  • @1999Valkyrie
    @1999Valkyrie 2 года назад +23

    Tyler, try to find river gravel. That's the stuff they add to concrete to give it strength. Basically what river gravel is...is remnants of the glaciers that covered the Northern part of earth for millions of years. I have seen some of that stuff go through tumbling and polishing, and they begin to look like gemstones. Way cool.

    • @ASCUMBAGWh0re
      @ASCUMBAGWh0re 2 года назад +4

      Lol bs

    • @TraceguyRune
      @TraceguyRune 2 года назад +1

      ummmm, no. That is the worst idea ever. Buy the stuff made for this.

  • @edmondvodochodsky8208
    @edmondvodochodsky8208 4 года назад +333

    The glass reminds me of "ocean glass" I used to find on the beaches of Washington state. Believe it or not, there's actually a MARKET for this, from stained-glass windows to aquarium decorations,...pretty-much anywhere that uses glass. Now I know how to 'age' newer glass to give the effect of years of weathering on the beach,.......
    Thx

    • @BakaTaco
      @BakaTaco 4 года назад +18

      That was my thoughts exactly.
      I would imagine that the sand (grit) in the tumblers act the same way that the sand does in the ocean and at the beach. And the tumbler itself acts like the tide, causing the sand to "polish" the glass and maybe the water corrodes it or something?? I don't know the science, but it's gotta be the sand and tides making the glass look that way surely.
      Same thing happens with rocks, I assume. Notice how rocks nearly always have a lot of curves to them?
      You see it on beaches all of the time, it usually makes me think about how some asshole threw that bottle somewhere, and now it's here. But, they do look kind of pretty, especially when you find ones that are really transperent. Collecting them is doing the world a favour, and if people are buying, it's... Easy money! Haha

    • @mr.bombastic806
      @mr.bombastic806 4 года назад +1

      I believe that the polish happens from the salt in the ocean

    • @J2982able
      @J2982able 4 года назад +1

      Just gotta find different colored bottles!

    • @MrCulldog
      @MrCulldog 4 года назад +11

      XBakaTacoX it’s purely abrasion, just sand particles scraping the surface as they tumble in the ocean that causes the frosted look and for the glass to become smooth. Very cool, and as glass is practically inert, relatively harmless to the environment!

    • @BakaTaco
      @BakaTaco 4 года назад

      @@MrCulldog Thanks for your valuable information! It's interesting to find out about this topic.

  • @donnyo65
    @donnyo65 4 года назад +454

    My parents used to do rock tumbling in the 70’s. I seem to remember that the pre polish and polish took way longer than the grinding, like 4x as much. And then there was another polish for about two weeks with polish compound and little round plastic beads and only half the original rock. This means the rocks aren’t bashing each other and losing the polish - long winded but I remember the results being really shiny.

    • @GreebleClown
      @GreebleClown 4 года назад +18

      Yeah, for that real nice shine you need to polish longer. For extra special ones you do it by hand, but that takes hours/days.

    • @key4us2c
      @key4us2c 4 года назад +23

      Yes no bashing. If no plastic beads you can use saw dust. It cushions the rocks, or whatever, and takes up the volume you lose from the grind. You also must be sure to wash all the grit as you go, because if you for instance, miss one grain of grit as you move on to the finer grades it will scratch the batch and never polish.

    • @gregwharton1289
      @gregwharton1289 4 года назад +4

      Yes need more time on the polishing process

    • @DisturbedVette
      @DisturbedVette 4 года назад

      greebleClown Is not much better to do it by hand?

    • @GreebleClown
      @GreebleClown 4 года назад +1

      @@DisturbedVette Depends on how many stones you’re polishing and what shape and effect you’re going for. (Also sometimes depends on what kind of stone.)

  • @davidgannon5388
    @davidgannon5388 4 года назад +261

    8:05 - I used to be a contractor at the United States Mint, in the manufacturing division at HQ in Washington, DC. I can tell you for a fact that the one cent (the actual name of the "penny") was changed in *1982* from a copper-zinc alloy (95% Cu, 5% Zn) to a zinc-copper core (99.2% Zn, 0.8% Cu) with an 8-micron-thick coating of pure copper. To put that in perspective, a human hair is about 75 microns thick. The change was to reduce the cost of the one cent, which was rapidly approaching its face value because copper was becoming expensive. Since 2006, the one cent has cost more to make than it is worth. In 2011, administrative costs were figured into the coin's cost, and because of that, you could make the one cent out of a free material and it would still cost more than one cent to make it.
    If you want to know more, here is the Technical Report that I wrote for the Mint back in 2014: www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-rd-biennial-report-appendix-4.pdf

    • @johnholman918
      @johnholman918 4 года назад +1

      How much u get paid

    • @davidgannon5388
      @davidgannon5388 4 года назад +6

      @@johnholman918 typical contractor wages for a Tech Writer III. I was released from the contract in mid-December of that year since the work for which I was contracted had been completed, and the document delivered.
      Funny thing: the actual Biennial Report (for which the Technical report was an appendix) was barely 15 pages long, and the majority of it was lifted, nearly word-for-word, from the introduction to my Technical Report!

    • @rodjacksonx
      @rodjacksonx 4 года назад +4

      Even producing thousands at a time, it now costs more than a penny to make a penny. Gotta love inflation!

    • @mikehunt8375
      @mikehunt8375 4 года назад +5

      They really need to just get rid of the penny. I throw mine out before I put my change in a jar.

    • @ReyaadGafur
      @ReyaadGafur 4 года назад +6

      @@mikehunt8375 well thats kinda stupid. Coin segregation.

  • @marshallgatten6465
    @marshallgatten6465 3 года назад +92

    Every time I’ve seen a rock tumbler in a museum gift shop I’ve always wondered why anybody would ever buy such a thing. And then I watched this and want a rock tumbler. I’m wondering how many rock tumblers this video has sold without the manufacturers ever knowing who to thank.

    • @cindykirby7673
      @cindykirby7673 Год назад

      Me too

    • @fallencyano9015
      @fallencyano9015 Год назад

      it makes me want to buy grit for my old tumblr (which i have been wanting to for years. its the only consistent thing on my christmas list, im pretty sure one year i only wrote down grit & one other thing)

    • @Brandyalla
      @Brandyalla 29 дней назад

      @@fallencyano9015 Grit is readily available, what's stopping you?

  • @scubbydoi7444
    @scubbydoi7444 4 года назад +1538

    I as being a rock expert can confirm that those rocks are hard rocks.

    • @foxxiangel6384
      @foxxiangel6384 4 года назад +10

      Bennett Destefano ur a fuckin jokester i like it

    • @funnerthanbefore4947
      @funnerthanbefore4947 4 года назад +9

      BRO THAT"S GENIUS!!!

    • @DavyMcWavy
      @DavyMcWavy 4 года назад +9

      Please, use your commas.

    • @josh_fisher
      @josh_fisher 4 года назад +6

      @@DavyMcWavy I was going to say the same. You beat me to it. +1 point for you.

    • @coolbreezy2053
      @coolbreezy2053 4 года назад +10

      They're minerals, Marie.

  • @ltsecondincomand
    @ltsecondincomand 4 года назад +258

    Tyler plants a seed, comes back a year later and meets a tree.
    "As you can see there is very little change from last year"

  • @eidolor
    @eidolor 4 года назад +83

    If you want a real polish on them you’ll want a cloth wheel for your grinder or drill, maybe a spray on clear coat or epoxy could clear things up

  • @lildpropmsv
    @lildpropmsv 2 года назад +8

    I've been playing with rocks for some years now and I can assure you that you did not fail in your efforts to polish up those rocks. The failure was due entirely to the horrid instructions on those cheapie rock tumbling kits. They DO work, but there's a great deal more to know if you want the stones to come out nice and shiny. Be aware, done right, it's a much longer process than a month and requires that each individual stone is ready to move on to the next grit before doing so. I commonly polish with the rough grit on a continuous basis with one barrel, stopping once a week to examine and remove individual stones that are READY to move on to the next grit, leaving, typically the vast majority to turn for at least another week, or months if needed depending on how rough the stone is. Moving a rock out of the rough grit prior to be being smoothed down sufficiently (requires knowledge and experience, which you won't get from one batch of rocks) will prevent it from polishing up nicely....which is exactly what happened with your stones.
    I would strongly recommend checking out any of the other rock tumbling videos for more in depth explanations and pointers. Grinding typically takes months, unless the rocks are super smooth to start with. Polishing typically takes only a couple days (2 days prepolish with cheap aluminum polishing compound and then 3-5 days with good quality tin or cerium on hard rocks or double that for soft rocks.) Final polish is one day in dishwashing liquid, or two if you want them to be like mirrors.
    By the way, your flat edged marble was caused by a chunk of glass chipping off and then the chunk ground into nothingness.....mystery solved.

  • @ParedCheese
    @ParedCheese 4 года назад +133

    Just in case nobody has already said it:
    The "flats" on the marbles are where glass has flaked off, then the edge smoothed by the grit.

    • @MrChiliwhop
      @MrChiliwhop 4 года назад +10

      I was thinking maybe there was an air bubble in the marble.

    • @arnoldskurk971
      @arnoldskurk971 4 года назад +5

      also, as when using acid to polish glass, a small dent would expand exponentially since its now an edge to rub against. i suspect the same with the tumbler, a small imperfection in the surface being eaten up by the sand.

    • @jasonbirch1182
      @jasonbirch1182 4 года назад

      I was thinking they just lodged against each other and stopped rolling. Hence flat spots.

    • @lylelay
      @lylelay 4 года назад

      @@jasonbirch1182 That is often the reason

    • @alexandermanolakos698
      @alexandermanolakos698 4 года назад

      877888

  • @michellepryce6985
    @michellepryce6985 4 года назад +520

    The glass looks like sea glass. People where I live search the beaches for it.

    • @passonthestar3689
      @passonthestar3689 4 года назад +4

      Yeah it essentially is

    • @darkmatter3579
      @darkmatter3579 4 года назад +3

      Thanks now it doesn’t take me like 1 year to find sea glass just get a rock tumbler

    • @velazquezarmouries
      @velazquezarmouries 4 года назад +1

      @Party Van!i think that that is sand blasted glass

    • @JustCallMeMeghan
      @JustCallMeMeghan 4 года назад +2

      And it wouldn't go back to.clear, as the sand is actually causing scratches to the glass.

    • @richardbadish6990
      @richardbadish6990 4 года назад

      Yup! I figured someone would say this!

  • @CallMeTyroooone
    @CallMeTyroooone 4 года назад +1027

    “I think the rocks are getting smaller, but there’s no way for me to test that”
    Scales: Am I a joke to you?

    • @simplymommlogical620
      @simplymommlogical620 4 года назад +5

      He could've measured them with rulers as well lol

    • @muhschy
      @muhschy 4 года назад +9

      How should he afterwards know how big, or heavy those rocks were at the beginning..?

    • @IIeGxAmazeDII
      @IIeGxAmazeDII 4 года назад +6

      "Scales: am i a joke to you?" This is the clue! I wish you luck :)

    • @emmitstewart1921
      @emmitstewart1921 4 года назад +1

      Yes, the rocks get smaller. Tumblers work by grinding away any imperfections in the rocks.

    • @jonathansmith9333
      @jonathansmith9333 4 года назад +4

      While it wouldnt be 100% precise, use the texturing of his gloves as a unit of measure. You could measure between 2 dimples, sampling and getting the average from multiple gloves, then review the footage when he places the items in his hand the dimples would then act as a scale ruler....

  • @markbell4982
    @markbell4982 3 года назад +13

    As someone who used a media blaster on a daily basis as part of his job, I knew immediately the results you would have with the dice. Plastic will laugh at even a large industrial blaster. A rock tumbler is cake.

  • @Godmcgod
    @Godmcgod 4 года назад +358

    this man turned his shower thoughts into a bucket list, what a mad lad

  • @vashumashu4359
    @vashumashu4359 4 года назад +48

    The two major factors that I believe in dramatically improving your results: it looked like you didn't really clean the tumblers between rounds because the debris was still covering them all over. Absolutely all of the previous material needs to be cleaned out because the tumblers final result will follow whatever heaviest scratching surface is available inside no matter how little, effectively negating your next grit. The other major factor I saw was too much water. Cut it closer to the surface. This has potential to be a really great video series, if you can get the results to come through. Good luck in the future.

  • @redsquirrelftw
    @redsquirrelftw 4 года назад +129

    The glass was definitely really cool. Another experiment might be to try different aggregates. Wonder if baking soda would do anything to polish further.

    • @gigglegal1988
      @gigglegal1988 4 года назад +6

      Corn starch might be an interesting polish aggregate to try as well

    • @dragonstorm803
      @dragonstorm803 4 года назад +8

      This makes me want my own rock tumbler to make my own sea glass

    • @hanner8830
      @hanner8830 4 года назад +4

      Dragon Storm yeah same. I ordered one on amazon and bought some green bottles to break. Got big plans for that tumbler lol

    • @gigglegal1988
      @gigglegal1988 4 года назад +3

      I would love to get a rock tumbler and coloured glass and then make a river table and coat the coloured glass in epoxy, I feel like that would be really pretty

    • @redsquirrelftw
      @redsquirrelftw 4 года назад +2

      @@gigglegal1988 That actually would be pretty cool. I definitely want to get a tumbler too now. Would also make a fun project to build one.

  • @ryokothenecromancer83
    @ryokothenecromancer83 Год назад +12

    Know this was 3 years ago and this may get missed lol but it's alright! For any of those in rewatching or anyone in the future watching this, there's 2 pieces of what looks like a jade, a beautiful piece of tigers eye, lapis, dalmatian jasper, 3 pieces of rose quartz, and lapis lazuli. The small red pieeces that look like they have a geode "outside", the black one, and the little red ones I'm not sure of. Just a fun fact from your local gemstone enthusiast!! :3

    • @scotts1356
      @scotts1356 Год назад

      Tiger eyes are worth some money, aren't they?

    • @ryokothenecromancer83
      @ryokothenecromancer83 Год назад +2

      @scotts1356 it varies, I have some really pretty small pieces I got for 5 usd, bigger pieces or stylized cuts are more expensive. Found a near prefect specimen at my local crystal shop, was a 4 or 5 inch single point tower for 50 usd so it really depends. :3 hope this helps

  • @TheCornDavis
    @TheCornDavis 4 года назад +519

    "And something else I’m curious to see"
    Me: raisins?
    "Marbles"
    Me: oh

  • @GIJOE573
    @GIJOE573 4 года назад +441

    "The Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It Down"

    • @timmothyheroux
      @timmothyheroux 4 года назад +2

      I can't believe this guy, he can't even remember the names of the Polish grit. He's Clueless about what's happening and continues running the Penny's without water.

    • @IdenticalG
      @IdenticalG 4 года назад +6

      Timmothy Heroux taking out the water fixed the problem though apparently, do you have a fix for it that wouldnt have involved taking the water out?

    • @timmothyheroux
      @timmothyheroux 4 года назад +1

      Use thin weight motor oil. You have to have a liquid for the abrasive to work.

    • @motonomad1016
      @motonomad1016 4 года назад

      ULTRASMURF truth

    • @johnshelton4753
      @johnshelton4753 4 года назад

      Ok ive seen that somewere but.i dont know were

  • @michaelkaczmarek4395
    @michaelkaczmarek4395 4 года назад +230

    If you burnish the stones with soap after all of the polishing, you’ll get that shiny look on them.

    • @nutmeg9005
      @nutmeg9005 4 года назад +8

      Michael Kaczmarek burnish? What does that mean

    • @michaelkaczmarek4395
      @michaelkaczmarek4395 4 года назад +38

      Nutmeg You take an ivory soap bar or some other non perfumes soap and run it in the tumbler with water and the stone for a few hours. That’ll let it keep its shiny look.

    • @201watermelon
      @201watermelon 4 года назад

      @@michaelkaczmarek4395 oh okay! Thats awesome

    • @paulweston8184
      @paulweston8184 4 года назад +4

      @@nutmeg9005 It means to polish something, especially metal, by rubbing

    • @massivelegend957
      @massivelegend957 4 года назад +3

      @@paulweston8184 shout out to google.

  • @kristaransbottom6765
    @kristaransbottom6765 Год назад +7

    I've tumbled glass using eggshell, sand and sea salt. I got the same results as if I used the grits, and they make really pretty jewelry!

  • @stacys3857
    @stacys3857 4 года назад +802

    Doesn’t wear gloves or goggles when breaking jar. Wears gloves after the glass has been in the tumbler.

    • @gammaray9543
      @gammaray9543 4 года назад +4

      Facts

    • @Tiffany-hn3sc
      @Tiffany-hn3sc 4 года назад +1

      Wow

    • @nighgthbji6546
      @nighgthbji6546 4 года назад +1

      So what lol

    • @Isa-yp2rr
      @Isa-yp2rr 4 года назад +9

      Its funny but i mean splinters and glass dust are far worse so I guess that’s why
      Or maybe he just forgot😂😂

    • @phoradio1277
      @phoradio1277 4 года назад

      Safety First 😆😆😆

  • @thugasaurusrex6004
    @thugasaurusrex6004 4 года назад +247

    I'm not sure what the aggregate is made of because I wasn't listening too hard or you didn't say it, but you may have been producing small amounts of hydrogen with the pennies. That might be why the lid was flying off. It would also explain the heavy oxidation of the zinc
    That doesn't make sense for the other two that did it later... Like I said perhaps it's the aggregate causing it lol
    Did a little research and apparently man-made glass, volcanic glass, metallic ore minerals, metals, and blast furnace slag among other things can produce gas when tumbled. That's probs what was causing these lids to fly off. Still not sure why because they don't explain much outside of releasing trapped gas / reacting with aggregate but I'm thinking that's why

    • @baconeggs5681
      @baconeggs5681 4 года назад +3

      It’s silicone carbonate

    • @baconeggs5681
      @baconeggs5681 4 года назад

      Thugasaurus Rex and the polish/prepolish is aluminum oxide

    • @KingNast
      @KingNast 4 года назад +4

      @@baconeggs5681 silicon carbide

    • @justinkneas7673
      @justinkneas7673 4 года назад

      I’d say the two other times were cause by the same thing. They may have taken longer due to the lesser amounts of copper

    • @tombrown8829
      @tombrown8829 4 года назад +1

      I think you're on the right track. Some kind of chemical reaction with the zinc.

  • @danielslaughter104
    @danielslaughter104 4 года назад +82

    I've used rock tumblers as a kid, they definitely get a "wet shine" look when done right. I'm not sure what was different either but I do know we used to have to wait almost 3 months for them to look like that.

  • @Hudson316
    @Hudson316 3 года назад +9

    Tumblers like that are basically how dice manufacturers take the sharp edges off dice after moulding them, so that'd be why they held up so well

  • @pnuemagger
    @pnuemagger 4 года назад +187

    The dimple was because some of the glass chipped off due to a defect in the marble at the beginning. SOmetimes there's internal cracks or air bubbles near the surface of marbles. It broke and rounded off the broken edges to make a flat dimple spot.

  • @mushroom7441
    @mushroom7441 4 года назад +403

    "idk anything bout rocks , they all look hard to me " -tyler

  • @asherevans-southall2529
    @asherevans-southall2529 4 года назад +391

    Geologist: as you can see here, we have some granite
    Tyler: brown rock

    • @draven4464
      @draven4464 4 года назад +19

      I think you're taking that rock for granite

    • @asherevans-southall2529
      @asherevans-southall2529 4 года назад +10

      @@draven4464 that pun rocks

    • @myarchus1
      @myarchus1 4 года назад +8

      the brown rock was a tiger eye, not granite

    • @asherevans-southall2529
      @asherevans-southall2529 4 года назад +3

      @@myarchus1 it’s a joke

    • @TheHipisterDeer
      @TheHipisterDeer 4 года назад +1

      There are literally dozens of different rock types, they are not all granite

  • @5809AUJG
    @5809AUJG Год назад +3

    You can, as you've shown here, make your own sea glass with a rock tumbler, it seems! Broken glass in the sea gets tumbled around in the sand for years, and you get the lovely, frosty looking glass. I may get a rock tumbler and start making my own sea glass! Nice! Thank you.

  • @richardhead8264
    @richardhead8264 4 года назад +199

    *_19:05_*_ The dice remained prismatic because they are _*_soft_*_ when compared to the grinding media._
    *_Softness_*_ is why the tumbler barrel survives a lifetime of interaction with the grit._
    _Only your hard brittle objects interacted with the grit in a manner that resulted in significant erosion._

    • @oskarcoronado9663
      @oskarcoronado9663 4 года назад +9

      My MIND just EXPANDED 🧠 👁

    • @MarkSmith-fw2vv
      @MarkSmith-fw2vv 4 года назад +3

      You gotta think too dice are made to stand up to such treatment

    • @remmy118
      @remmy118 4 года назад +3

      Richard Head yes

    • @kylietaylor9487
      @kylietaylor9487 4 года назад +2

      This is kind of inspirational

    • @TammiiRose
      @TammiiRose 4 года назад +2

      Science is cool

  • @beanswiththerice2561
    @beanswiththerice2561 4 года назад +79

    I love how this man doesn’t read instructions it just makes everything just that much better

    • @kevmasengale6903
      @kevmasengale6903 4 года назад +3

      Who reads instructions?

    • @frankvandendool882
      @frankvandendool882 4 года назад

      @@kevmasengale6903 I do! After I can't figure out how that freakin' thing works xD

  • @kris6682
    @kris6682 4 года назад +142

    The frosted looks has nothing to do with any coating being taken off the frosted look comes from all the tiny little scratches

    • @AJsarge1
      @AJsarge1 4 года назад +5

      Yep. I refinished a headlight after some assholes decided to spraypaint it black. Went all the way to 2500 grit sandpaper on the lens, and it was as cloudy as the glass until I finally threw the rattle can clear coat on it.

    • @KonZone
      @KonZone 4 года назад +3

      @@AJsarge1 You could just have polished them with rubbing aftet ~2000 grit

    • @boxsterman77
      @boxsterman77 4 года назад +1

      And the coating being taken off. Or to you maintain that the coating is still there?

    • @jamesduffey4442
      @jamesduffey4442 4 года назад +1

      Your comment is sooooo not correct.. Excuse me but a bunch of TINY SCRATCHES would be the coating being taken off.. Or should i say scratched off so your wrong !!!

    • @kris6682
      @kris6682 4 года назад +1

      AJsarge 2500 ain’t fine enough go to 4000 and buff it by hand afterwards no need for clear

  • @Cheryl_Haydon
    @Cheryl_Haydon 3 года назад +6

    A female's perspective - I'm very impressed by the way the broken glass turned out. With the jagged edges gone and frosty looking, I can see several different uses for it...mainly decorative and crafting uses. I'll bet colored glass would look awesome!

    • @1960markN
      @1960markN 3 года назад +2

      beach glass!

    • @nickmaclachlan5178
      @nickmaclachlan5178 3 года назад

      @@1960markN Yup, this. All you have to do is walk along a stony Beach to find examples of this glass. I like it when you see old sections of brickwork all worn down, but the mortar is still holding the bits of brick together.

  • @Kira_7237
    @Kira_7237 4 года назад +161

    1:54
    The Die: *Escapes*
    My Brain: OOOOO what'd it land on?

    • @jorbus1581
      @jorbus1581 4 года назад +11

      My Dice goblin brain:
      WhY wOuLd YoU rUiN sO mAnY sHiNy KLiK-klAkS?!??!

    • @yarbo9900
      @yarbo9900 4 года назад +8

      When the die fell it created 6 alternate outcomes to this experiment. We got this one.

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 4 года назад +1

      @@jorbus1581 need moar, all the moar

    • @retrobasic7226
      @retrobasic7226 4 года назад +3

      It landed on the floor 😉

  • @littlekingcobrasden4217
    @littlekingcobrasden4217 4 года назад +122

    Now, just drill holes in the glass, tye together with string, and make a wind chime.

    • @adamburdt8794
      @adamburdt8794 4 года назад +1

      Never understood wind chimes. They all sound annoying to me. Al either If ya do dig that stuff it's not a bad idea.

    • @RyuuHatake
      @RyuuHatake 4 года назад +3

      You and wind chimes have something in common then

    • @littlekingcobrasden4217
      @littlekingcobrasden4217 4 года назад +1

      @@RyuuHatake no. Just offering him a suggestion what he could do with the glass now that he's had it in the tumbler for so long.

    • @yazms.
      @yazms. 4 года назад +2

      @@littlekingcobrasden4217 ..... he was calling the other commentor annoying...

  • @Brad772006
    @Brad772006 4 года назад +500

    Try leaving a rock tumbler in a rock tumbler for 30 days.

    • @untitleddocument8651
      @untitleddocument8651 4 года назад +1

      YES

    • @untitleddocument8651
      @untitleddocument8651 4 года назад +1

      SI

    • @roku5071
      @roku5071 4 года назад +6

      My dad once left some rocks in the rock tumbler until he ended up with sand like grit. He did eventually laugh about it and said it was a lesson learned

    • @johnholman918
      @johnholman918 4 года назад +2

      Leaving a jar in acid for an entire month

    • @rosstully5960
      @rosstully5960 4 года назад +5

      Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

  • @kobiecarter8029
    @kobiecarter8029 2 года назад +9

    I know this was over a year ago but I just wanted to ask if you still had those dice laying around because you forgot to show the dice after the final polish. They probably didn’t change much but I was definitely excited to see them. Love the video!

  • @stimpy_thecat
    @stimpy_thecat 4 года назад +310

    Prediction: the dice will be completely powderized
    EDIT: I've never been so wrong about anything in my life

    • @pfistor
      @pfistor 4 года назад +10

      I think the dice are clumping up because the barrel is so full. So only the sides are getting agitated against each other. If he had maybe half as many and threw in some marbles to encourage agitation it might do more.

    • @Yomotomen
      @Yomotomen 4 года назад +3

      When have you ever heard of. Dice breaking? There’s even a trick out there of putting your dice in an oven to get them to always land on one side, and they stilll look thememy theory is that they’re durable little fucks that are built to last, otherwise, well, the glass did a. Similar thing after the thin edges were removed

    • @kusti1337
      @kusti1337 4 года назад +3

      @@Yomotomen Horrible punctuation and comma use, I must say

    • @Yomotomen
      @Yomotomen 4 года назад +8

      Gustav E. Jaanus Well, I guess it’s good to know that the only real criticism for my comment is my poor punctuation.

    • @ToToasted
      @ToToasted 4 года назад +3

      Gustav E. Jaanus you must be fun at parties

  • @BraydenM014
    @BraydenM014 4 года назад +87

    8:21
    Hey! My comment got mentioned about the pennies. It is indeed 1981 when the pennies were not made of copper anymore and 1982 when the new metals of zinc and such were implemented.

    • @HiHi-vf4rs
      @HiHi-vf4rs 4 года назад +7

      Bray014 the penny was actually switched in 1982 half way through the year

    • @BraydenM014
      @BraydenM014 4 года назад +2

      @@HiHi-vf4rs ok. Thanks for the info

    • @REDSHlFT
      @REDSHlFT 4 года назад +2

      The switch was actually mid year in '82. You can weigh them to determine if an '82 is the 95% copper or not.

    • @nutbutterbruh4405
      @nutbutterbruh4405 4 года назад +1

      Thanks for this information kind sir 🙂

  • @the.iggy.aussie5778
    @the.iggy.aussie5778 4 года назад +429

    Nobody:
    Tyler: hmm these rocks are made of rock

    • @joops110
      @joops110 4 года назад +1

      smart boye

    • @ItsMeFred
      @ItsMeFred 4 года назад

      They all look hard to me.

    • @ethanlocke3604
      @ethanlocke3604 4 года назад

      frederik jonassen that rocks

    • @stevewebber707
      @stevewebber707 4 года назад +1

      About the same level of truism as "harbor freight tools are hit or miss"

  • @CherriToast
    @CherriToast 3 года назад +4

    I love the smooth, pink, square rock. It's just so perfectly square and smooth.

  • @bbybby91
    @bbybby91 4 года назад +69

    If you want a harder, glossier shine, After cleaning thoroughly, add a teaspoon of your final polish choice and a half teaspoon of dawn dishwashing liquid per pound of rock to the barrel along with a half barrel of water (or the level you ended up using in Polish step 1).

    • @caitlynchannon2270
      @caitlynchannon2270 4 года назад +5

      @tylertube

    • @chasingdemons7231
      @chasingdemons7231 4 года назад +10

      He is also not using a proper liquid to abrasive ratio he clearly did not read the instructions, each step needs to be done for at least 45 days

    • @TheFriskySquid
      @TheFriskySquid 4 года назад +2

      @@chasingdemons7231 If you did the first coarse step for 45 days you wouldn't have anything left for the next steps - just sand maybe. But yeah polishing can be done for quite a while, also he probably didn't thoroughly clean each tumbler barrel and rocks thus grit from previous runs was left over and it ruined the polish.

    • @chasingdemons7231
      @chasingdemons7231 4 года назад +5

      @@TheFriskySquid I've been polishing and rock tumbling for 14 years and if you read the instructions the first step is the most important and can be done for up to 45 days on rocks considering they are "rock" tumblers.......you have no idea what your talking about

    • @davidmiles2597
      @davidmiles2597 4 года назад +1

      Correct, it works me,really well on brass.

  • @BigInjun05
    @BigInjun05 4 года назад +198

    Put the coins in an ultrasonic cleaner.

    • @THEBOSS47MLG
      @THEBOSS47MLG 4 года назад +4

      No replies come on

    • @BigInjun05
      @BigInjun05 4 года назад

      @@THEBOSS47MLG takes too long lol

    • @numberyellow
      @numberyellow 4 года назад

      @@THEBOSS47MLG i had one here, but it seems to have been erased..

    • @jimmyclimer594
      @jimmyclimer594 4 года назад

      A little brasso and copper pennies will shine.

  • @opalsasha
    @opalsasha 4 года назад +86

    When zinc reacts with water, hydrogen gas is produced, explaining why the lid of the coin tumbler kept blowing off

    • @acuailtrash7320
      @acuailtrash7320 4 года назад +2

      Very interesting

    • @cadenmadison8633
      @cadenmadison8633 4 года назад +2

      It can also be a reaction with the friction fusion of silicon carbide and copper. Both can contribute

    • @winter_3407
      @winter_3407 4 года назад +3

      Well it actually makes zinc oxide and hydrogen gas from the zinc fusing with the oxygen in water and leaving behind the hydrogen

    • @MoldyStir-Fry
      @MoldyStir-Fry 4 года назад +4

      So he could have potentially had a hydrogen explosion in his garage... Nice.

    • @LeafInTea
      @LeafInTea 4 года назад +1

      Copper + Zinc + water sounds like a battery formula to me.

  • @Thelounge3k
    @Thelounge3k 3 года назад +20

    The marbles took me back to my elementary school days when marble collecting was a thing aka the 80s . I had some really nice medium and large ones which we called boulders

    • @guttergoodies674
      @guttergoodies674 3 года назад +2

      I was born in 99 but lived in Cali, we did the same I had bags full cuz we played for keeps.

    • @johnwest7228
      @johnwest7228 3 года назад

      I used to play marbles back in my younger days, we called the real big ones bunker balls, they were good to play with because they would win alot of balls but were not likely to be lost- still have them from 50+ years ago

    • @Jaybird-oo3ih
      @Jaybird-oo3ih 2 года назад

      The big ones are shooters

  • @teddarling4225
    @teddarling4225 4 года назад +161

    Hey Tyler,
    I enjoyed someone else playing with rocks. Pretty soon you'll be checking out the parking lots the mall or the doctors office. We have spent many days searching the Fairburn agate fields, and the tepee canyon agate fields. If nothing else it's good bonding time with your wife.
    Now when you really get the bug, you wonder how you can speed up the polishing process. Me, I was in the garage looking around and my eyes settled on my big wood lathe. Now since I bought my smaller one, I thought this is my answer. It was a good answer too. I went to Lowe's and bought 30 inches of 6 inch plastic pipe. I bought a cap for one end, and a threaded plug and adapted for the other ene. I also bought a nice big piece of rubber tool box liner to line the tube with. I had no idea how much the tube would weigh when it was ready to run. Would you believe 40 pounds? Fortunately I had a set of heavy duty rollers and brackets I used for another project. It all worked great. The only real problem I had was you must change the tube out after every 5 complete polishing runs. The good part is the tube, cap, and adapted don't cost that much. I am still using the original cap.
    A little more and I will quit yapping. Find a good local grandmaster supply store, and buy your grits 5 gallons at a time. We use 4 grits, 2 polishes and a last run with Ivory soap cut up in the tube no grit. The soap helps to burnish the rocks.
    Here lately I have playing with alabaster ( gypsum). You can use all of your wood tools on it.
    Well I have talked enough.I wish you all good luck and ask that you keep me posted. At 70 I am still ready to learn.

    • @littlemrpinkness295
      @littlemrpinkness295 4 года назад +6

      Good God.
      But I would rather have him doing THIS

    • @ruby1one2000
      @ruby1one2000 4 года назад +6

      That’s very long

    • @jackp844
      @jackp844 4 года назад +11

      Should have written more.

    • @asharascott7964
      @asharascott7964 4 года назад +9

      Thank you Ted! This was all very interesting for me to learn and I hope plenty other learn from this as well!

    • @babylonfuc
      @babylonfuc 4 года назад +4

      This was fun to read, thank you for sharing your experience w rocks with us! 💛

  • @littlemrpinkness295
    @littlemrpinkness295 4 года назад +46

    I don't know how this got recommended to me, but this looks FASCINATING!
    I would like to see the dice spend 4 weeks with the aggressive grit

    • @theconphentedcow241
      @theconphentedcow241 2 года назад +1

      @@cgplays9 he said "fascinating" not "fantastic" just btw

  • @thenotoriousrvh6091
    @thenotoriousrvh6091 4 года назад +308

    The only thing I learned here is I am way too easily entertained.

    • @doctorain
      @doctorain 4 года назад

      Robert Van Hoy I learned I would make a damned video on why one HF tumbler broke belts and that this guy has to be the least curious person ever. 8 belts and no idea why. 1964? 1974? 1984? He’s unaffected and that’s his thing. Like sweeping the floor. This floor has dirt on it and this floor has glue on it. Let’s sweep. (One broom has no bristles and uses it on the dirt) nothing happens and I have no idea why. Just use hands in a frustrated way. What if he washed his beard with dish soap for a month. It’s growing everywhere and I have no idea why(as he can’t quit picking us itchy nose) something has happened to my nose and I have no idea why. My nose has changed. I have no idea why. All I did was wash my face hair and I hate my nose. I have no idea why. My kid washes his face and he doesn’t hate his nose, he doesn’t even have a beard. No idea why. My neighbor doesn’t wash his beard at all. Just rubs it with bacon grease. He loves his nose and smiles as dogs lick his face, I have no idea why.

    • @leahvarney4051
      @leahvarney4051 4 года назад +1

      Adventures of a Citybilly who hurt u

    • @KaylonR
      @KaylonR 4 года назад

      @@doctorain tf

    • @Nirrrina
      @Nirrrina 4 года назад +1

      At least this is better than playing with a tiny feather that came out of my coat.
      I think I've spent too long around just my cats.

  • @AidenRKrone
    @AidenRKrone 2 года назад +2

    The frosted glass looks very pretty. Rock-tumbling isn't something I'd want to spend time or money on as a hobby, but the results are cool.

  • @fynnthurlow7508
    @fynnthurlow7508 4 года назад +355

    Me: Ooooo that's fluorite, that's granite, andisite....
    Tyler:
    *Rocks are Rocks*

    • @KawaiiCat2
      @KawaiiCat2 4 года назад +21

      islo phobia that’s totally me! I see rose quartz in there too and tigers eye.

    • @TheDancerMacabre
      @TheDancerMacabre 4 года назад +13

      Jesus Christ Marie, they're minerals.

    • @marianhoblyn1901
      @marianhoblyn1901 4 года назад +11

      I was doing that too, trying to name them all. I would definitely take the rose quartz and Dalmatian jasper off his hands.

    • @fynnthurlow7508
      @fynnthurlow7508 4 года назад +4

      @@marianhoblyn1901 sAme

    • @austindallas5797
      @austindallas5797 4 года назад +10

      Every time he says rocks I die a little inside

  • @bco63d
    @bco63d 4 года назад +86

    Fifth step for the rocks is called burnishing and that is what makes them shine wet looking.

    • @schneider1492
      @schneider1492 4 года назад +2

      o, i thought that water made them look wet

    • @vigotacoma
      @vigotacoma 4 года назад +3

      Only wet water

    • @aaronsuever4362
      @aaronsuever4362 4 года назад +4

      Okay so what is burnishing? When I read your comment, I was curious about it, but not enough to go look it up for myself 😂.

    • @kingjoebail7300
      @kingjoebail7300 4 года назад +1

      @@aaronsuever4362 burnishing smooths all the points left over from the rough sands. Then it is smoothed down till it is all the same finish. To make it clear after burnishing u have to buff it with leather and work your way to a paper then a soft cotton. Clear glass has to be flawless

  • @dlefavour
    @dlefavour 4 года назад +234

    Am I the only one that wants to know what he rolled on the dice that fell on the floor

    • @cameronboblett2216
      @cameronboblett2216 4 года назад +2

      LeFavour Tube airsoft and more no I want to know to

    • @Shiratto
      @Shiratto 4 года назад +12

      I didn’t before. But now you put this question in my head.

    • @LaserTechNate
      @LaserTechNate 4 года назад +5

      No I immediately was like "well.. what do you roll?"

    • @henrythemolineguy
      @henrythemolineguy 4 года назад +1

      I yelled Bunco! Just in case. LOL!!!

    • @rmshields76ify
      @rmshields76ify 4 года назад +2

      First thing that crossed my mind dude

  • @microwave_safe
    @microwave_safe 3 года назад +20

    "So all that broken glass that went everywhere, that'll be fun for somebody to pick up, cause its not gonna be me" mood

  • @AndrexT
    @AndrexT 4 года назад +14

    Your 'sand' is silicone carbide, the same stuff on wet and dry sandpaper. The white polishing compound is Tin or Aluminium Oxide. Your brown stone was Tiger's Eye, blue rock is Lapis Lazuli, the pink stuff was Rose Quartz, the white stuff is Quartz and if you had any purple stuff it would be Amethyst. Your flat marble was stuck against the wall of the drum, stuck there with other marbles on top of it. The large Marble is called an Alley, and it the target when you play marbles. With your stones, you need another week or pre-polish and another week of final polish and they will come out shiny like a mirror, when they were wet.. Each finer grit removes the scratches that the previous grit has made. The gas build up with the clad coins is because you have a layer of zinc and a layer of copper, add water and you end up with a voltaic cell, a battery, and it created gas from H2O releasing oxygen and hydrogen. The way to clean pennies is a few hour tumble in Aquarium Grit. That is a metal detectorist trick. When I tumbled stone, I let the build up of gas out every two or three days as it can also happen with the stones if the water or grit has impurities. The plastic Dice were floating and not 'tumbling'. The glass has turned into 'Sea Glass'. That stuff is very collectible, you can sell it especially coloured glass, red, blue and green.

    • @realwickedbrew
      @realwickedbrew 3 года назад +2

      But can I use that Lapis Lazuli to enchant my survival cane?

    • @johncole4882
      @johncole4882 3 года назад +1

      @@realwickedbrew my thoughts exactly

    • @DerekSmit
      @DerekSmit 4 месяца назад

      You addressed all of the issues except for the dice. My guess is that they are more or less floating or just not heavy enough to really tumble, maybe that's why almost nothing happened to them.

    • @AndrexT
      @AndrexT 4 месяца назад

      @@realwickedbrew
      Yes you can. I have a pair of Lapis Lazuli mounted silver cufflinks. They were a 21st birthday present from my parents. I am 71 now.

    • @AndrexT
      @AndrexT 4 месяца назад

      @@DerekSmit
      It is a 3 year old video and the contents are hazy but I guess you can’t tumble dice because they have a flat sides. You would need a couple of baffles in the drum to make them tumble. I’ll watch it again later.

  • @KhrisC
    @KhrisC 4 года назад +392

    "Jesus Christ Maire, they're minerals" - Hank Schrader

  • @hoserella59
    @hoserella59 4 года назад +13

    Hey Tyler. I enjoyed watching your video. I own 6 CE dual tumblers. Currently I have 3 running in my shop. Belt tension has been the reason why my belts fail. I still have quite a few spare belts as a result of adjusting the tension to the point where the belt isn't slipping but it's not overly tight either.
    Secondly, I use 4 Tbs of powder for the first two grits, then the pre-polish and the polish stages get 6 Tbs and I use just enough water to reach the bottoms of the top layer in all stages.
    I used to overfill the tumblers trying to get more product finished in the same amount of time. The contents need room to roll. The instructions say to fill them to 2/3 capacity but I have found, since I tend to overfill anyway, I stop at about half full.
    Lastly, I started to use pellets. Ceramic pellets from "Polly's Plastics" in the 3/8 sized cylinders have been my favorite. You get a lot more action inside the tumbler with them creating a desired effect at the end.
    Put the glass and rocks back in a tumbler, add pellets (stopping at a total volume of about 1/2), 6 Tbs of polish, water to the bottom of the top layer and let it tumble for a week or better. I'd bet you'll see a much higher gloss as a result.

    • @denisef1684
      @denisef1684 2 года назад

      I got interested in rock tumbling when I first went to the Gem Mine in Pigeon Forge, TN. My husband would take me every time we went to the Smokies. Pretty soon I had bags and bags of "gems". For Christmas after about the 3rd year of going, he bought me a rock tumbler. I have enjoyed them ever since. Very satisfying.

  • @gideon9900
    @gideon9900 3 года назад +2

    Depending on what you have in the tumbler, you will have to release a gas that accumulates every day to prevent the "explosion".
    The actual polishing step requires a very high grit. You can use a 10k plus grit in the tumbler or a couple other methods to make them really pop, they will look even better than when you showed them wet.

  • @bjcomp2384
    @bjcomp2384 4 года назад +50

    Try a torch on the glass, it will "polish" it like you want, hold it with a heat resistant glove, it will be hot afterward. Like metal work, let it cool for a while it will still be hot.

    • @rjonasd2
      @rjonasd2 4 года назад +3

      The glass would probably just shatter

    • @numberyellow
      @numberyellow 4 года назад +2

      @@rjonasd2 and he'd probably set his house on fire..

    • @rjonasd2
      @rjonasd2 4 года назад

      @@numberyellow only if he's stupid enough to not do it on a safe place

    • @numberyellow
      @numberyellow 4 года назад +3

      @@rjonasd2 Have you not watched any of his other videos? He's not terribly bright.

    • @rjonasd2
      @rjonasd2 4 года назад +1

      @@numberyellow well... That is true, let's just hope that he's smart enough to not even try the blowtorch

  • @bellacapulet1933
    @bellacapulet1933 4 года назад +121

    "Fun for somebody to pick up and it's not gonna be me"
    Confirmed Tyler has a spouse and they're being held captive and are fed mason jar 30 day gasoline meat.

  • @sylviaverrill6681
    @sylviaverrill6681 4 года назад +41

    Your glass is the same as Sea Glass. At the Sea Shore, you may find broken glass pieces, that have been worn smooth from the wave action.

    • @PlaztekNerd
      @PlaztekNerd 3 года назад +5

      Similar, but not the same. You can tell ocean tumbled from man made.

    • @kristin7121
      @kristin7121 2 года назад +3

      @@PlaztekNerd ocean tumbled or lake tumbled. The marbles look more similar though. I’ve collected glass from Lake Michigan and it still looks different in comparison to tumbled craft glass.

  • @CharlieOkeson
    @CharlieOkeson 2 года назад +12

    Just found your channel. I just got a rock tumbler, and your video came up. I haven't even watched the whole video, yet, but you're down to earth and funny, so I'm Subscribed. ✌️👍
    P.S. I'm on day 8, and I'm not sure if I can handle it, 😂. It's great to be able to watch someone else's adventures. Thanks. Edit: I'm Canadian, and I love your accent. I could've sworn you said "panties were just layin' all over the garage floor", at 6:46 😯🤣😂☺️ Sorry, no offense meant. I love accents.

  • @georgecostanza9387
    @georgecostanza9387 4 года назад +185

    The ultimate way to roll the dice playing monopoly

  • @tinknal6449
    @tinknal6449 4 года назад +24

    The dice are too light, that is why there was no change. I would leave the glass, rocks, and marbles in the fine grit for a couple more weeks.

  • @haleyw5677
    @haleyw5677 4 года назад +261

    They don’t look frosted because the coating is gone they look frosted because they are all scratched up

    • @larrycoleman7604
      @larrycoleman7604 4 года назад +4

      he didnt call it a coating, he called it a finish. Technically a polish is a finish

    • @simp4kimlip649
      @simp4kimlip649 4 года назад +2

      Larry Coleman 10:53

    • @JbbJake
      @JbbJake 4 года назад

      @@larrycoleman7604 By definition any product that is considered complete by its creator has a "finish"..
      - complete the manufacture or decoration (of a material, object, or place) by giving it an attractive surface appearance.
      "the interior was finished with V-jointed American oak"

    • @JoeMama-ot5mj
      @JoeMama-ot5mj 4 года назад +2

      glasss that scratched up is frosted glass Thats more or less how they make it Using a sandblaster instead of a rock tumbler but same idea

    • @haleyw5677
      @haleyw5677 4 года назад +1

      Larry Coleman no he definitely called it a coating when taking about the marbles

  • @steelcurtain92
    @steelcurtain92 3 года назад +8

    The scoring marks on the center tumbler is probably a clue to why you were breaking belts.

  • @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside
    @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside 4 года назад +23

    I remember when your channel was brand new and now you've got millions of views and lots of Subs! Congratulations Tyler I'm glad to see you're doing well!

    • @A-G-F-
      @A-G-F- 3 года назад

      To this day, i dont know what his channel is about lol

    • @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside
      @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside 3 года назад

      @@A-G-F- waiting to see him top the amazing battery brick

  • @Gottaculat
    @Gottaculat 4 года назад +17

    I wasn't surprised by the glass. Anyone who's picked up old glass shards from the ocean floor knows that look. It's especially cool looking when the glass is tinted green or amber.

  • @TheTotapaluza
    @TheTotapaluza 4 года назад +138

    Tyler: I don't know about rocks
    Hank: they're minerals.

  • @shaneminer4526
    @shaneminer4526 Год назад +2

    I think a fun thing to try would be to run this again, but leave some out with each stage so that you/we can see the progression of the tumbling with side by side comparison

  • @Minyassa
    @Minyassa 4 года назад +7

    When I was a kid, one of the things we did to learn about temperature shock in materials was bake glass marbles and then drop them into cold water. The older, solid glass marbles (this was back in the 70s) would do this beautiful shattering reaction on the inside, leaving the outside intact. The newer marbles--usually the type with a wedge of color inside, like the ones you have--would shatter on the *outside* in a layer and that would flake off easily. I suspect that the core is harder in the modern marbles and the outside layer of yours just shattered off, which is why they got so much smaller.
    Also, with pre-polish--the only purpose of pre-polish is to smooth over any deep scratches or gouges left by the course grinding. You're not going to see shiny from pre-polish.

  • @hopkidokid
    @hopkidokid 4 года назад +20

    Fun fact: the big marbles u were talking about is called a "shooter " marble, and is the main marble u use when playing a game if marbles,using it to shoot at marbles in a circle to knock the small ones out of a circle. Loved playing marbles as a kid!

    • @jodyfuller4164
      @jodyfuller4164 4 года назад

      I always called the big ones boulders

  • @anikalibera5596
    @anikalibera5596 4 года назад +160

    We've got some good rocks, some green ones and some brown ones and some I don't even know what kind of rocks these are "
    *me hearing my soil mechanics professor* "have you tried to lick at it to identify which kind of rock this is?"

    • @TarisLuna
      @TarisLuna 4 года назад +9

      But you are not supposed to just lick stuff
      😅

    • @britishsteel35
      @britishsteel35 4 года назад +11

      Sounds like a job for the waterjet channel.

    • @snowballil3133
      @snowballil3133 4 года назад +2

      Lol waterjet channel

    • @MEANDERJAYTHETWEAKER
      @MEANDERJAYTHETWEAKER 4 года назад +1

      I'm pretty sure the round ones are tiger eye, you should look it up, they're beautiful when polished. I wish he did atleast change the grits and polished them all.

    • @muffinman8018
      @muffinman8018 4 года назад

      HEAVY CREATURE THAT TASTES LIKE ALMONDS FOUND IN FARM

  • @brandonwright7971
    @brandonwright7971 3 года назад

    After the polish put some type of liquid wax in the tumbler, some polishing compound or finishing compound, or ceramic liquid wax.
    Ideas to put in tumblr:
    Screws, razor blades, bullets, legos, geodes, some types of animal bones, drill bits, prosthetic eye balls, a mini whiskey single serve bottle, fishing hooks, pieces of different woods, Aarow heads.
    Use diff types of grit and use diff types of liquid too( like rubbing alcohol, etc)

  • @normiukkeli3739
    @normiukkeli3739 4 года назад +29

    Do a part 2 with legos,broken plant pot, screws, bearing balls and shotgun pellets.

  • @ls_4turdy
    @ls_4turdy 4 года назад +33

    When someone is sleep deprived everything is funnier but u man are absolutely hilarious with ur sarcastic ways and I love it keep it up

  • @jacccccccck1475
    @jacccccccck1475 4 года назад +131

    He goes "ohh there's 2 big marbles!!" lmao you can tell man's has never played marbles in his life

    • @richardcreamer1046
      @richardcreamer1046 4 года назад +2

      When we were kids the big ones we called "kaboldas."

    • @garymullin1475
      @garymullin1475 4 года назад +7

      or ever heard of sea glass.

    • @xxminaxbabyxx
      @xxminaxbabyxx 4 года назад +4

      He pulled them out and I was like... Those are the shooters, dude what

    • @jijisongs3983
      @jijisongs3983 4 года назад +1

      xxminaxbabyxx where I’m from we called em tonkers. Cause they go tonk went dropped. Also they were valuable. A lot of gambling came from those feckers

    • @sarahgilliss3503
      @sarahgilliss3503 4 года назад +1

      My grandpa called them "aggies."

  • @KelliConnolly90
    @KelliConnolly90 2 года назад

    I've been watching this channel on my tv for over 2 years and wasn't even subscribed.. the algorithm continues to bless me.

  • @sandmanbub
    @sandmanbub 4 года назад +4

    The stones I ran through my tumbler did come out shiny. I did this when I was a child, but remember using more abrasive each time and tumbled the stoned for a longer time. Keep experimenting with grit and tumble time. The ones I use now are home made and I use them to mill dry metals and chemicals for pyrotechnic compositions. If you want to increase the speed of your tumblers, you can slip rubber or silicone tubing over the rollers to increase their diameters.

  • @Bjoerncathers
    @Bjoerncathers 4 года назад +31

    Zinc reacts with water to form Hydrogen gas. This might be why the lid on the penny is popping off.

    • @someoneelse2412
      @someoneelse2412 4 года назад +4

      Thank goodness someone said it, the only reason you dont notice it with pennies in like lakes and rivers is the copper covers the zinc and the little hydrogen produced is just released into the air

    • @nyroccoryn
      @nyroccoryn 4 года назад

      I think it also produces zinc oxide, but I could be wrong

    • @Angelis99
      @Angelis99 4 года назад

      Also the Silicon Carbide, depending on the metal/metallic component with the zinc and water is a low grade battery when it spins.

  • @noname-ve7wo
    @noname-ve7wo 4 года назад +40

    Put them on a piece of paper and trace them and compare the sizes or put them on a food scale and see how much they weigh next time. Awesome video! Keep it up homie.

  • @axelleaxl.5315
    @axelleaxl.5315 3 года назад

    Spinning metal (pennies) generate a very small amount of electric current (Foucault). that electricity creates a water electrolysis, breaking up liquit water in Oxygen and hydrogen gaz. This is why you get pressure in the barrel ;-) (Sorry for this bad english, I'm french speaker.) Thanks for this vid, I like it ! Axelle.

  • @Chili_Rasbora
    @Chili_Rasbora 4 года назад +48

    The die aren't extremely hard, they're very ductile and very lightweight. That's why they're not wearing down.

  • @bluescorpion444
    @bluescorpion444 4 года назад +251

    everyone in his house hated him for a month💀✋🏼 can you imagine all the noise

    • @Nino-rl4jr
      @Nino-rl4jr 4 года назад +9

      Imagine his electricitybill😂

    • @angelaabrams9108
      @angelaabrams9108 4 года назад +23

      @@Nino-rl4jr I looked up the double drum tumblers to see their power consumption. They're rated at 29 watts an hour. Over a month, they'll use 21.19 kWh of electricity each. At $0.12 per kWh (average in the USA), that's only $2.54 each for the whole month. I haven't looked up the small one, but assuming it's got a similar power consumption rate, it cost him less than ten bucks to power the experiment.

    • @robdidopp7769
      @robdidopp7769 4 года назад +2

      @@angelaabrams9108 I do appreciate the (correct) calculations and whatnot, but please, please, please don't call it "watts an hour". The unit is watt. It's joule per second, i. e. energy per time. People use kWh to again get a measure of energy. Watts per hour would mean that the power changes over time.
      I'm sorry that I can't stop myself from nitpicking, but, you know, I just can't.

    • @angelaabrams9108
      @angelaabrams9108 4 года назад +1

      @@robdidopp7769 no worries. I wasn't sure when writing out if I should just say watts or watts/hour. It felt wrong saying watts per hour, but I went with it because of kWh (even though that's a measure of power, not usage over time). Electric circuits and power consumption aren't really in my wheelhouse, but I am making the effort to learn more. Either way, I can't take full credit for the calculations, I found a calculator online and plugged in the watts. It did all the work. I just reported the numbers.

    • @erictheboringone5292
      @erictheboringone5292 4 года назад +7

      Ang Abrams nerd

  • @airyannastinger6250
    @airyannastinger6250 4 года назад +6

    this man deserves an award for patience ! there’s no way i would have kept cleaning up those pennies after they kept busting and the fact that he makes such great videos for us in the span of a month !!!!! @tylertube your my fav ❤️

  • @taconobaka1688
    @taconobaka1688 3 года назад +1

    I think the answer to your belt problem with the one tumbler is the wear mark the drum was leaving on the housing on the motor end. I have one like it for cleaning brass, but I haven't used it yet since I plan on only using it after I've had to anneal my case necks.
    Anyway, I did notice when I tested it out to see if it ran, the barrels had a tendency to walk toward the motor end of the machine. I think I'll see if I can bias it down hill to keep it from rubbing and wearing out belts when I get around to using it.