Tumbling

[Blench99]

New to tumbling, any recommendations on what media to use?
Thanks

 

[User00040]

Wet tumble with a rotary tumbler and steel pins.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Or if dry walnut media. Another alternative is corn cob. I have some but since I got good results with the walnut I never bothered with it.

 

[phaedra]

Wet tumble and use 1.5mm ball bearings, they do a much better job than the pins

 

[finnbear270]

This^

 

[Ozalid]

Walnut media, cheap tumbler, half an hour or so, job done. It all depends on how obsessed you are with shiny.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Corn cob and a cap full of T cut!

shiny brass every time

 

[andychas]

Ultrasonic bath with Sea Clean, rinse, dry and tumble with walnut media (dash of One Shot for extra shiny). Clean inside and out every time.

 

[Woodsmoke]

Corn cob and a cap full of T cut!

shiny brass every time

I use walnut, but add the T-Cut also

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

All this stainless tumbling lark is just another costly faff that in my opinion is not required.

 

[Haggis Hunter]

Interesting comments. I've been using an ultrasonic bath for a while, which was ok, but I fancy some really nice shiny brass so will go looking for a vibrating tumbler now. The stainless route seemed a bit costly and maybe a bit of a faff?
hh

 

[camo304]

Interesting comments. I've been using an ultrasonic bath for a while, which was ok, but I fancy some really nice shiny brass so will go looking for a vibrating tumbler now. The stainless route seemed a bit costly and maybe a bit of a faff?
hh

The faff is picking the media out of the flash hole.

 

[Stalker62]

The faff is picking the media out of the flash hole.

Yes, have spent many an afternoon with a bucket full of brass and a nail...never getting that time back.

 

[paulbshooting]

I wet tumble with pins. Easy to sort with media trays which were supplied, rinse and air or oven dry. Spotless and reload.

 

[gaza916]

This ^

 

[finnbear270]

The faff as you lot put it, Is self administered, use the right dimensioned and shaped stainless media, Bingo, clean inside and out, including primer pockets, probably one or two last weekend that needed a gentle push to dislodge out of a batch of fifty cases.

 

[JockStalk]

U/S bath, Seaclean, dried in low oven, any soot on the neck gets a wipe.
Not shiny but accuracy does not appear to suffer.

 

[DVS1]

I feel so second class that I spin case on case holder with wire wool

 

[jcampbellsmith]

Wet tumble and use 1.5mm ball bearings, they do a much better job than the pins

Where do you get the ball bearings?
Thanks
JCS

 

[angusb1]

I got these 1 LB GUNTAP Stainless Steel tumbling media - reloading | eBay which are allegedly the right size:

"The key feature is the unique dimension of the pin media - 0.047” diameter by 0.255” length (tolerance < ±5%). Guntap only offers this size pin since it does not get jammed in primer pockets or flash holes"

1.2mm x 6.477mm in metric

Haven't tried them yet but I will report back when I've used them.