Repaired Broken Tumbling Composter Even Stronger & Better
I got a free tumbling composter with a broken stand. I built a new stand using free pallet wood and made it even better than from the factory. Read the full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11314
This is a plastic composting tumber that came with a flimsy metal tube stand. The ends of the metal simply stuck inside a bit of plastic on the ends of the tumbler. With time the metal ends wore through the thin plastic and the entire thing fell apart.
This was a design flaw because a composting tumbler of this size will have a heavy load in it when filling up. There is no way it could take all that weight.
So I decided to rebuild it even strong than before using free pallet wood and scraps that I had laying around.
The only new things I used were a piece of metal conduit and some pipe ends.
I first had to cut off the old ends of the plastic that were sticking out of the sides of the tumbler so that I had a flat surface to work with.
I cut some scrap 2x4 pieces that I had laying around and drilled a hole in the center of each one to let the conduit go through. I made up four of these pieces.
I used recycled deck screws from my old RV porch and fastened one piece of wood on the inside of the tumbler and another one on the outside. This gives me a very strong foundation to hold the rod through the middle.
For added strength and to act as a sort of bushing I used pipe ends which screw onto a flat surface. The metal conduit fits nicely through the hole in the pipe end.
I did the same thing on both sides of the tumbler. With the boards on the inside and the outside this will never wear out again. The stress is taken off the thin plastic and transferred to the boards.
Next I took a pallet and cut some scrap pallet wood to form a V shaped stand on each side. The conduit will rest in the top of the V formed by the legs of the stand.
I screwed the legs onto the pallet and also put a piece of wood down which I screwed through to the frame of the pallet and then to the legs of the stand as well for added strength.
And finally I put the new composting tumbler on the frame and then put some scrap wood on as cross bracing.
This newly rebuilt composting tumbler does not shake or wobble at all. It is stronger than from the factory and should never wear out now.
I am very pleased with the results of my work this day and it only took about an hour to finish the project.
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Troy
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