Thread: Case tumbler

Originally Posted by Kscott

There's loads of differing opinions, but personally speaking I've found it a lot quicker to wet tumble than dry tumble. Mainly because you only need to tumble for a shorter time, and even including drying time - it is quicker for me than vibratory tumbling. I only tumble clean by the ice cream container load, once it's full it's time to do a clean.

For me time is worth something, so the less i have to be in the process the better,

Originally Posted by Tommy

I've always wondered how awesome a whole bunch of fine particulate corn cob/walnut shell dust, nicely laden with lead styphnate etc floating around for you to breathe in is for your health. With a wet tumble it all goes down the sink.

A side benefit of cleaning the inside of the case as well as the outside, is you can catch a few more cock-ups. Looking over a tray of dosed cases, the odd empty one sticks out like balls. Small split? Same deal.

I dont see the point in wet tumbling primed fired brass, and i'm not going to run my pistol brass through the press just to decap then wet clean, then load. Way to much time and no perceived great benefit

I add a couple of cap fulls of turps to the media, and there is no dust (also stops any corrision on the brass, and sort of lubes the case for carbide dies)



However, i have brought some once fired pistol and rifle brass in the past, and vibracleaned, then decapped/sized, and had a mate wet pin clean. Gees talk about clean.*



I need a pin cleaner for rifle, and if i get once fired brass again. *

For day to day pistol, i'll stick with shoot, vibra clean with walnut and turps, throw in 650 and then shoot....

Originally Posted by Beaker

I dont see the point in wet tumbling primed fired brass, and i'm not going to run my pistol brass through the press just to decap then wet clean, then load. Way to much time and no perceived great benefit

I add a couple of cap fulls of turps to the media, and there is no dust (also stops any corrision on the brass, and sort of lubes the case for carbide dies)



However, i have brought some once fired pistol and rifle brass in the past, and vibracleaned, then decapped/sized, and had a mate wet pin clean. Gees talk about clean.*



I need a pin cleaner for rifle, and if i get once fired brass again. *

For day to day pistol, i'll stick with shoot, vibra clean with walnut and turps, throw in 650 and then shoot....

True, up til now I only did it via a single stage, and only rifle brass, so no loss of time having a nice slosh going in the background at work. However, I still know of several people who break it down into two passes through a progressive with a wet tumble in the middle. I get a weird amount of joy from how clean they come out too