I Tumbled Rocks Nonstop For One Year!

Sep 9, 2026

Yep, that's right, I put two barrels of rocks on my tumbler and didn't touch them for an entire year. The results were very interesting! This experiment really does a good job of showing the strengths and weaknesses of silicon carbide and aluminum oxide grit.

Thanks to Christina Jelinek for doing the closed captions for this video. If you would like to help out with the closed captions, let me know.

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