glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Ooooooh! I need me a fart wrench!!
Rotary Stainless Steel Pin Tumbling Question
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CWLONGSHOT
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MOST USEFUL TOOL!!
dannyd
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I think you mean "Old Fart Wrench"
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
That too! I'll be 60 tomorrow 
dannyd
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That's sad because when you go on Medicare, I will be a real old fart.That too! I'll be 60 tomorrow
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Happy Birthday! Having one more is better than not having any more.That too! I'll be 60 tomorrow
dannyd
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This funnel works great, got it from Amazom.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096QXC1S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
After having seen the recent picture of the FA tumbler.
A non marring strap wrench would be more useful, thus a better investment than a dedicated tool.
dannyd
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Not if you like to buy reloading equipment and already have a strap wrench.After having seen the recent picture of the FA tumbler.
Your trying to make sense of a hobby where we throw thousands of dollars into the dirt.
L Ross
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Happy birthday.That too! I'll be 60 tomorrow
Ian
Notorious member
Yeah, STM, sorry. They're a company I bought all my stuff from before FA was even on the radar.
CWLONGSHOT
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I picked up one of the little smaller Frankfurt Arsenal tumblers. I found that I often had just a couple boxes of shells that needed to be cleaned and I didn't wanna put them in the giant cleaner. So this one works perfect for those really small batches. But what I found was the way the drum is designed, it has these "swells " are there because their runners that the drum can spin. But what they do is they allow the cases to just lay in there and kind of just sway back-and-forth. And maybe it doesn't make a difference but it doesn't seem to me like they're getting agitated, the same as they probably should or and possibly clean better. All right OK so I added some lumps of epoxy the kind you need up between your fingers. After I scuffed up the plastic, of course. I let it sit for about a week to get good and hard and then I loaded it up and tried it out, and it seems to work really well.
I don't use the metal pins method of tumbling. Had then get stuck in the flash holes and compacted in bottle neck cases. Probably had the wrong size pins. That stuff is all gone away and I now use an ultrasonic cleaner and it works very well. Have a very large unit that will fit an entire AR upper. Made by Hornady. This is the best it has been as far as case cleaning is concerned. I have a Browning 1919 MG in .308 and it also works great for cleaning the cosmoline off the links before linking ammunition as well.
Bruce
Bruce
CWLONGSHOT
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I dont use any pins now either.
todd
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i use less than 1/4 lb of ss pins that is in my HF Dual Rock Tumber/4" sewer pipe. i forget what formula you use to put ss pins in it (ss pins was 1 or 2 lbs) but after using the formula, i found that about less than 1/4 lb was it on top of water, which i do about 1/2 of the container (50 cases, but i could do 100 - 125 cases if i were to fill it up) i use 2 or 3 drops of dish soap and about 9mm case of Lemishine.