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Open mouth oblique tumbler
The Barrel Finishing Tumblers are a series of open-ended, oblique tumblers - a special type of barrel finishing machine in which the barrel is open at the end and is mounted cantilever on a tilting shaft. The tilting tumbler is a versatile machine suitable for wet or dry barrel finishing processes. This particular system features a tapered octagonal shaped barrel for maximum tumbling action.
An old favorite for finishing, offers the advantage of fast loading and unloading as well as rapid inspection, which is especially useful with runs of short duration. These tilting tumblers are also useful for doing many short runs because they are so easy to load and unload.
This type of barrel does not work as well with media as the standard horizontal barrel. The media and parts tend to segregate because of the vortex action, causing the media to stay toward the rear of the barrel as the parts migrate toward the opening. Hence, this type of machine should not be chosen for sophisticated deburring.
