I am looking to replace my old crappy tumbler that broke with a new one. Does anyone have experience with Eastwood tumblers? I'm looking for something about the size of their 18 pound tumbler, and wondered if people had experience with that one.

I'd be particularly interested in a tumbler that is large, and that has a different method of attaching the lid than the normal threaded rod / wingnut. I'm not sure this exists though, but thats been the point of failure on the two I've gone through so far.

I missed this. Do you have the large / 18lb model? I'm curious if it's size/weight makes it run any quieter. Like many I am sure, I run mine for 12-24 hours at a time. Usually in a garage, but sometimes I like to work in the area and the noise of my old ones sucked.

The two I've gone through in the last 5-6 years, same failure - threaded rod digs into the plastic top, boring out the hole in plastic top further, which causes the thread range to become damaged over time...leading to not being able to really tighten the lid down...starts spinning...constantly trying to re-tighten while it's tumbling. Hope this makes sense!