Thread: Rotary Tumblers - Cheap or best value

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Originally Posted by stumpy

Rotary Tumbler Case Cleaner | Trade Me

I got one of these , and love it , ... and I use the stainless pins from the same fella , ... I tried making one from all sorts , .... in the end this compact , and powerful 5kg machine , does it all ....

How is that tumbler going? still working? Is that one of those orange and clear Chinese jobs?


Cheers

yup , goes awesome , and has worked every weekend since I got it , exactly yhe same one on trade me ... never leaked , and never gets hot

Just grabbed one , be here is a week $116 US

serious shooters has media for 45 bucks ... works a treat

So how did the aliexpress ones work out?
The only alternative in NZ is over $500!!

Originally Posted by Rebeltrousers

So how did the aliexpress ones work out?
The only alternative in NZ is over $500!!

I got a 3 kg one landed for just over a hundred bucks including shipping which iirc was free anyway.
Hasn't missed a beat in over a year.
Does 100 .223 and around 150 .40 s&w brass. I just use it on its slowest speed and the agitate setting with 1kg of media. Works a treat.

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Just don't do what I did, knocked off itt its storage on top of the safe onto concrete floor and broke the plastic edge

So I dropped the $$ and purchased a Frankford Arsenal one from Reloaders. Way more expensive, but a lot more sturdier and holds a ton more cases. In hindsight, I wish I had just purchased the FA one.

Thinking of making one of these baby formula tin models ! Was thinking of attaching it to my bench grinder but would be too much rpm

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Originally Posted by bay_lad

Thinking of making one of these baby formula tin models ! Was thinking of attaching it to my bench grinder but would be too much rpm

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@bay_lad

I used a car window wiper motor, a 5L bucket and some skateboard wheels.

https://youtu.be/vP0Bt-2xXN8

Cheers
Pete

Shouldn't have throw away that old skateboard..

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Originally Posted by P38

@bay_lad

I used a car window wiper motor, a 5L bucket and some skateboard wheels.

https://youtu.be/vP0Bt-2xXN8

Cheers
Pete

Are you using stainless in it or walnut? If so, how much media vs brass?


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Originally Posted by bay_lad

Are you using stainless in it or walnut? If so, how much media vs brass?


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Wet tumbling with stainless pins

The 5L bucket can easily do a couple of hundred cases with about half a box of stainless pins.

I've done several thousand 9mm and 223 cases now with excellent results

Cheers
Pete

Originally Posted by P38

@bay_lad

I used a car window wiper motor, a 5L bucket and some skateboard wheels.

https://youtu.be/vP0Bt-2xXN8

Cheers
Pete

I feel like we could start a thread of who has the horiest home made tumbler. If nothing else would work as a guide on how to make your own one.

I reckon mine would be in contention for first place.

Originally Posted by bay_lad

Thinking of making one of these baby formula tin models ! Was thinking of attaching it to my bench grinder but would be too much rpm

Commercially sold ones run at around 40 odd rpm, a wiper motor driving a tumbling barrel with no extra gearing should yield around that.
They also have heaps of torque.