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   Gerry  writes:   
      
   > On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:13:23 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"   
   >  wrote:   
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   >>"Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m1pli7mqt6.fsf@void.com...   
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   >>"Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
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   > Around sixty years ago, I built a device to mix around hundred pound   
   > batches of a sulphur, sand,+, + mixture in a lidded paper drum. I   
   > built a wood frame to mount in line pairs of wringer washer rollers.   
   > IIRC the shafts ran in 5/8" pillow blocks with heater hose as a   
   > flexible coupling and powered by a 1/4 HP electric motor. To prevent   
   > lumps I threw in a half dozen river rocks @~3 lb. each. since almost   
   > everything but the pillow blocks came frome my personal stock of "Good   
   > Stuff", the total cost amounted to less than $20. Seems to me, I added   
   > a furniture caster at each end to avoid end travel.   
   > A latter employer used the same mixture but a commercial ball mill to   
   > mix it after I explained my method.   
      
   At 0655 I'm here at my table thinking of ways to have the drum spin /   
   turn.   
   Reckon it's going to be about 60RPM.   
      
   It's likely going to have to be very improvised.   
   Thanks for the encouraging comment to say there must be a way.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rich S   
      
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