OK, so the entire thing took about 20 minutes to build! Of course, as I suspected, hubby wouldn't let me play with sharp objects. While he was cutting, I removed the filter, gathered some marbles for the sides & then realized I forgot to take pictures of the material before we started. Oops. I didn't remember till he had already cut the mesh, egg crate & had started with the zip ties. Hubby measured & cut the egg crate as close to the inner dimension of the tank as possible. Then he cut the ...

Been wanting to do this for a while now but finally got around to making my first egg tumbler so i thought i would share the experience and show the inexperienced how i assembled it. very easy and only took about 15 min to assemble. i started with a clear plastic fluorescent bulb guard. can be found in the lighting section of HD or lowes. and fiberglass screen like you would use on windows or doors. First I cut a 4" section and a 1 1/2" section off of the clear plastic tube ...

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It tumbles black eyed peas pretty good.

1. Cut the bottom out with a 1" lip.
2. Cut a circular piece of plastic canvas so it could be inserted inside and glued.3. Rotated the bottle with the glue in it to evenly coat edge of plastic canvas. 4. Let it dry over night on it's side so the glue does not run down the bottle and keep rotating. 5. Next cut out the bottom of the bot...