Why? It’s dead. It’s been getting progressively louder and today it just died. Stopped working midway through the 4th grit. It was over 5 years old and heavily used. And the worst part is that I don’t have a backup and can’t afford a new one right now.
That means it’s back to hand sanding for me. And I can’t find the batteries for my Scumbuster so it’s totally by hand sanding. I now remember why my production doubled or tripled after getting the tumbler. Sanding a tumbler full of beads through one grit takes nearly 2 hours and my hands, arms and shoulders ache. Butt is a bit numb too. I never used to make so many beads cuz sanding all of them just sucks. While it takes less time to sand them by hand (2 hours per grit vs 6 hours per grit), it’s hard on the body and I could be using this time to do other things.
I’m taking a bit of a break now and then I’ll do the next grit. 2 more grits after than and I’ll do those tomorrow. I’d like to have at least some of these beads ready for Monday.
And hope that sales pick up so I can get a new tumbler before the next batch of beads is ready for sanding.
