Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: Colter Benson]
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04/02/20 12:53 PM
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Getting ready to build a tumbler. Wouldnt static build-up be a good thing to help fluff the fur? Just considering different materials to build out of. Thanks in advance.
Josh Static electricity is a real danger for burning down your fur-shed and all your fur with it. I know of a couple trappers with homemade tumblers that suffered catastrophic loss of their fur putup operations from static electricity fires. Be careful. w
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: Colter Benson]
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04/02/20 01:19 PM
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Maybe Otis will chime in. He told me that’s why he uses wet sawdust when he adds paint thinner on the last tumble. Things can go boom!!!
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: Colter Benson]
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04/02/20 08:49 PM
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I tumble a skin or two, all in wood drums never had a static problem. I rana cage for awhile made with a HDPE skin with a lot of holes drilled in it for shaking the dust out, and a little static was noticeable. Run a high grade odorless mineral spirits.
Keith Daniels Retired OSTA President as of 4:50 P M 9/12/20
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: Colter Benson]
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04/02/20 09:02 PM
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You just need to ground the drum with a heavy copper wire, off one of the bearing blocks to the floor or some large metal structure. If your still worried because the wire seems still sheilded, you can bend a curve in a piece of copper and attach it to the block with a mounting bolt, and let it ride against the outside of the drum on an edge, Then watch it tumble away.
I'd not trust any other home remedy than that, it was professionally advised to me by a qualified electrician, when I made my own, never had a bother with it, I use all kinds of materials for absorption and also for glazing, nothing ever stuck any where !
Sorry if my opinions or replies offend you, they are not meant to !
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: GritGuy]
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04/03/20 09:39 AM
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Wouldn't a steel frame that's anchored to the floor already do the same thing GritGuy? Seems like the only way you would ground the atmosphere inside the drum, assuming it's not made of some type of metal, is because of the axle that's connected to the drum head, and as long as it's on a steel frame it's already going to ground?
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: Colter Benson]
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04/03/20 10:22 AM
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Once you pull the pelt out of the drum and ground it, you will loose most of the static fluff. Unless you keep them separate as soon as you put them on hangers again you will loose that effect. Don't know that it's worth the possible risk.
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
[Re: Colter Benson]
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04/03/20 10:32 AM
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Instead of using something that's flammable try using SIMPLE GREEN floor cleaner.
Put about a cup in the first time hide out. Add another cup and tumble fur side out for 5-7 minutes.
It won't explode and it strips the grease.
Vietnam--1967 46th. Const./Combat Engineers
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Re: Static and tumbling fur?
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04/03/20 10:36 AM
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My tumbler was made out of a five foot professional dryer, was a metal drum, I fiber glassed the outside to seal all of the perforations in the drum. Made it very static prone when tumbling with fine saw dust, I never put water with the material after the first time it matted my pelts up.
I bought some large wooden eggs and put them in the drum to help soften the pelts after tanning, then removed them to glaze and fluff
I never worried about the static after placing the ground on the bearing wheel block, My figuring was every time the pelts touched the door they grounded out, so it was not a bother to me any more after that first tumbling, when I opened that door I had saw dust sticking to everything LOL, but after grounding it was always at the bottom of the drum.
Sorry if my opinions or replies offend you, they are not meant to !
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