Wet tumbling

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I've picked out my very last cob of media from a primer pocket....

I've located a tumbler on fleabayhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133439034077?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2k1ujyucsiw&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=9Tsg9IwzRHu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY


What size stainless media is best to use , and with what liquids /detergents?


Thankyou
 
Lyman stainless media plus Lemon washing up liquid (a good squirt) plus Lemon juice a good squirt , you know the stuff in a plastic lemon shaped container , A good pair of Sunglasses to admire the results. job done
 
www.ebay.co.uk

Torsion Tumbler. Reloading Tumbler. Mechanic. Engineer. Rock Tumbler. | eBay

Capacity is approx 1500x9mm / 800x5.56.
www.ebay.co.uk

I bought one of these a few months ago after a friend bought one. The guy has designed it so all the bearings and belts are easily replaceable. I feel like I have wasted the last 5 years dry tumbling!!! I'm really impressed with this. The guy also sells pins, you would just need the Lyman sifter kit and a magnet.
 
Not sure if any one else has found one problem with wet tumbling?
A few weeks ago I decided to wet tumble all my de-primed brass after sizing.
As there was so many cases to size I decided to use some 'one spray' lubricant from i believe RCBS, but many other firms do the same type of product. I used it as instructed, no problem with sizing, but after wet tumbling as per usual ingredients and time, the cases were clean but horribly stained. The drying procedure and time as per normal.
A few hours in a dry tumbler with some car paint cleaner and they all turned out brilliant, all stains removed.
Not sure if it's an isolated occurrence or there is something in these 'one spray' which causes staining when used in wet tumbling.
Of course from now on back to imperial wax!
 
I have the same tumbler. I use half a teaspoon of citric acid, a squirt of washing up liquid and a squirt of dishwasher rinse aid in warm water. These are the pins I use for tumbling .270 and .308 1 LB GUNTAP Stainless Steel tumbling media - reloading | eBay. You need to make sure the pins are shorter than the case mouth diameter so they don't get stuck.

Once I've tumbled the cases I dump them into this salad spinner to separate pins from cases. Salad spinner

You should check each case for pins as you take it out of the spinner
 
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What Angus said.
I bought an el-cheapo Chinese made 5kg one from eBay for £80 and it’s been just fine.
Same pins (gun tap) 1lb is plenty. After mucking about with fancy mixes as I did with an ultrasonic, I now don’t.
A wee drop of car wash & wax detergent, any kind you like. Warm water. That’s it.
I find the pins do all the hard work so you don’t have to 😁
Wax in the car wash gives the cases a very slight coating and hinders tarnishing.
And you’ll need some sunglasses after tumbling.
Shiny, shiny brass ✨
 
angusb1 said:
I have the same tumbler. I use half a teaspoon of citric acid, a squirt of washing up liquid and a squirt of dishwasher rinse aid in warm water. These are the pins I use for tumbling .270 and .308 1 LB GUNTAP Stainless Steel tumbling media - reloading | eBay. You need to make sure the pins are shorter than the case mouth diameter so they don't get stuck.

Once I've tumbled the cases I dump them into this salad spinner to separate pins from cases. Salad spinner

You should check each case for pins as you take it out of the spinner
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The same one as I posted in the eBay link?
 
Sorry to be a Luddite but why do you tumble your cases?
I have some Federal brass in 308 that is now about 13 loads average overall old and I've yet to clean them. I think any form of abrasive cleaning is detrimental, especially riving out the primer pockets.
As I only neck size the cases don't stretch much and, looking back thru my log I've only trimmed them twice.
I recently, for my 30/30, started running the cases thru the full length sizing die but set so the shoulder isn't set back at all, basically because I couldn't get a collet die. I will extend this practice to my 308 and 223 ammo next bunch of reloading I undertake as the neck tension appears much improved.
I've set it up on the 30/30 so that the die comes within about 1mm of the neck, should be an image hereabouts showing one of my dirty cases (4th reload btw) neck sized like that.
30.30.webp
 
:gheyfight: I clean mine to:

Remove any crud from the inside of the case, clean the primer pocket.
It makes it a little easier to check each round for powder before pressing the bullet.

And of course I like clean shiny things
 
People often ask, why do you tumble your brass?

Hmmm....$10k rifle with optics and such, with a bartlein barrel. Why would I be lazy and stuff dirty cases into a rifle that costs that much? For some, IMHO, they make a classic case of being penny wise, and pound foolish. Cleaning cases (wet tumbling, dry tumbling, whatever) isn't THAT much of a chore.

Not cleaning brass is like owning a Porsche, and trying to find the cheapest gas possible to run through it. Smh...GBPSE...
 
Marine PMI, if you want to do the best for your hi dollar gun why not buy factory ammo? You'll probably be able to shoot the barrel out with the ammo you could buy instead of all the trinkets.
As for me, primer pockets don't get clean apart from a blast through with compressed air. The Federal cases still have tight pockets after all their reloading, absolutely no lub on the cases to clean off and as for checking the case before pressing in the bullet, my bullets are popped in as soon as the powder goes in.
Sorry I don't buy this clean everything dictum, my new cases are kept in plastic holsters go from there into the mag or straight into the chamber in the case of my single shots and the pic of my 30/30 case is how it looks after the 4th discharge ie 5th reloading.
Don't got a porsche, got a couple mercedes and they get supermarket gas, this is an image of one of them.
 

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Marine PMI, if you want to do the best for your hi dollar gun why not buy factory ammo? You'll probably be able to shoot the barrel out with the ammo you could buy instead of all the trinkets.
As for me, primer pockets don't get clean apart from a blast through with compressed air. The Federal cases still have tight pockets after all their reloading, absolutely no lub on the cases to clean off and as for checking the case before pressing in the bullet, my bullets are popped in as soon as the powder goes in.
Sorry I don't buy this clean everything dictum, my new cases are kept in plastic holsters go from there into the mag or straight into the chamber in the case of my single shots and the pic of my 30/30 case is how it looks after the 4th discharge ie 5th reloading.
Don't got a porsche, got a couple mercedes and they get supermarket gas, this is an image of one of them.
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My money’s on @MarinePMI rather than the bloke that drives a hairdresser’s car :norty:
 
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