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[Winelover]

Let me understand this....you run your Thumler's Tumbler without pins? What goes down into the inside of the case and the primer pocket to clean them out?



Rocky

Dry media like corn cob, crushed walnut shells/Lizard bedding.
With dry media, I very rarely decap. I decap for wet tumbling.............as previously stated.

Primer pockets get cleaned with tools, held in a drill motor, designed for that specific purpose................after tumbling.

Decapping is an extra step............and requires an extra universal decapping die. Standard sizing dies decap. However, you wouldn't want to resize before you clean them.

 

[Winelover]

I believe in more time spent shooting with less time fretting over shiny brass. Anyone wants to go though the extra time and expense of SS tumbling, knock yourself out. However, wet tumbling requires an actual tumbler. Can't do it with a vibrator. That is why I recommended a Model B..................they a more versatile, as well as time tested. SS pin tumbling is a relatively new process. How did reloaders ever manage without it?

 

[Cherokee]

One thing about reloading, there are many variations on how to accomplish a task(s) to end up with safe, accurate ammo for the firearm. Whatever gives you that result is fine.

 

[RBHarter]

The more I see wet tumble an pins the more I want to have one of those HF baby cement mixers . Swap the fins for half inch PVC and letter' rip with a scoop of 2 of play ground sand .

 

[waco]

 

[358156 hp]

A couple of my friends bought a 55 gal. drum of fired Military & Law Enforcement brass a few years ago. A Harbor Freight concrete mixer was bought to serve as a tumbler. At first we used about 20 lbs of steel pins for a five gallon bucket of brass, along with Dawn Dish Soap and a teaspoon of Lemishine per load, with just enough water to cover the cases. This was kind of a pain to do, so we pulled the steel pins for the initial cleaning and found that the outsides of the cases came out pretty good, but the insides weren't good at all. However this was good enough to allow inspection and sorting of the cases, the cases with dented shoulders and/or case mouths were set aside for 300 BO cases, and the rest went to .223/5.56.

After sizing & trimming the cases got tumbled again, this time with the pins, in smaller batches. This worked out well, and any FC marked cases were scrapped, but we kept the rest. There's still about a third of a barrel left unprocessed & unsorted, but we all have plenty of processed cases. With the current state of affairs in our country, it's probably a good idea for us to finish off the barrel.

Someday.