Glass Tumbling Recipe Needed

[fernwood]

I know that jamesp and others have posted recipes for tumbling glass in a rotary.
I searched, but could not find any.

My best friend just purchased her first rotary and wants to tumble glass.  
I have only done this once and used the same recipe/times as I did with Apache Tears.

She will be tumbling rocks once all the snow melts and she can get outside to find some.

Could someone post a link to a thread about tumbling glass?
Thanks.  

[susand24224]

I didn't look for a link, but I've tumbled it. I started with 120/220, then 500 and I think I did 1000 as well. Polishing (if your friend wants to) as one would with rocks. I thickened with Ivory Soap shavings and added filler of ceramic shapes. Probably any filler would work, but I hate chasing those little plastic pellets around with a fish net so don't use them.

[jamesp]

Mar 6, 2023 17:16:08 GMT -5 fernwood said:

I know that jamesp and others have posted recipes for tumbling glass in a rotary.
I searched, but could not find any.

My best friend just purchased her first rotary and wants to tumble glass.  
I have only done this once and used the same recipe/times as I did with Apache Tears.

She will be tumbling rocks once all the snow melts and she can get outside to find some.

Could someone post a link to a thread about tumbling glass?
Thanks.  

I cheated and used a vibe fernwood. There might be an obsidian recipe for the rotary, same material.

[Drummond Island Rocks]

It can be done in a rotary it just takes a lot more time. Here's an all rotary batch of obsidian done in a lortone 3 pound barrel.

forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/95587/rotary-obsidian-success

Chuck