This was my project for the weekend ( Ball Mil )l

[Great white hunter]

I got sick of paying $20.00 a pound for black powder for my cannons and after looking at all the crappy ball mills made on You Tube and the cheap junk on Ebay I decided to make myself a super industrial ball mill. This thing is built like a tank and will last forever. Built this on Saturday. Can be used to make 20 lbs of black powder In one shot or to tumble 50 lbs of rocks.

 

[chuckorlando]

I aint sure how one makes black powder but that thing looks well put together. It's a tumbler more or less yea?

 

[Charley Davidson]

Nice looking project, looks real professional:man:

 

[DMS]

I aint sure how one makes black powder but that thing looks well put together. It's a tumbler more or less yea?

A ball mill is basically a tumbler with some sort of media (usually metal balls) and the thing you want to grind. You spin it around for many hours, and the action of the balls smacking into each other (with your materiel in-between) reduces the material to a very fine powder. When doing black powder, you need to be sure to use a metal (like brass) that will not spark for obvious reasons.

 

[Great white hunter]

Ya, I use hardened lead balls. They work very well.

A ball mill is basically a tumbler with some sort of media (usually metal balls) and the thing you want to grind. You spin it around for many hours, and the action of the balls smacking into each other (with your materiel in-between) reduces the material to a very fine powder. When doing black powder, you need to be sure to use a metal (like brass) that will not spark for obvious reasons.

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Yes, It's a tumbler on steroids. It's a little over built for a tumbler but I have a habbit of over building everything I make.

I aint sure how one makes black powder but that thing looks well put together. It's a tumbler more or less yea?

 

[RandyM]

Yes, It's a tumbler on steroids. It's a little over built for a tumbler but I have a habbit of over building everything I make.

I like how you think. Nice job!

 

[chuckorlando]

If it aint a race car or air plane your better off over built . Would this work to clean parts like a vibrator or does it just break things down?

 

[Charley Davidson]

If it aint a race car or air plane your better off over built . Would this work to clean parts like a vibrator or does it just break things down?

With the right media it would debur/clean parts I think you would need water in it also.

 

[chuckorlando]

Charley you ever eat at Kirkenburts? Our old Buddy Tom owns that place. Got a buddy named Gary Wyatt in your town as well

 

[Great white hunter]

Yes you can also clean parts. You just use corn cob as a tumbling media.

If it aint a race car or air plane your better off over built . Would this work to clean parts like a vibrator or does it just break things down?