{"id":449,"date":"2015-10-10T03:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T03:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2015-10-10T03:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T03:20:53","slug":"old-printer-new-rock-tumbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Old Printer, New Rock Tumbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one comes from the &#8220;I&#8217;m too cheap to just buy one&#8221; project list. Having taken up rock-hounding in Montana, we found ourselves with the need to tumble some rocks. If you don&#8217;t know what rock-tumbling is, it&#8217;s the process used to polish stones like the ones they sell in gift shops. <\/p>\n<p>The parts list for this is pretty short. We went to the goodwill and picked up an old inkjet printer. The parts I was after were the rollers and associated motor. Then all you need is a frame and a round container to place on the rollers. The frame is mostly improvised from screws and plastic parts from the printer, so I&#8217;ll just let the pictures do the explaining. Total BOM cost was about 7 dollars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.51-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"RockTumbler_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.51-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.51-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.35-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"RockTumber_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.35-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.35-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.22-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"RockTumber_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.22-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.22-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.10-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"RockTumbler_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.10-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.06.10-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.05.54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.05.54-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"RockTumber_5\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.05.54-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-09-21.05.54-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one comes from the &#8220;I&#8217;m too cheap to just buy one&#8221; project list. Having taken up rock-hounding in Montana, we found ourselves with the need to tumble some rocks. If you don&#8217;t know what rock-tumbling is, it&#8217;s the process used to polish stones like the ones they sell in gift shops. The parts list&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/?p=449\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Printer, New Rock Tumbler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnt-traces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}