If you wet tumble.. go the little extra distance get a separator

The best method to get the media from the separator back into the tumbler drum is to pour it back in with the water. Place the drum some place where it can overflow without making a mess. Pour off about half of the water from the separator to make it easier to handle and then quickly pour the remaining water/media into the drum. If you get your pouring technique just right, you will have very few stray pins left in the separator to pick up with a magnet. Drain what water you can from the drum without spilling the pins, but don't worry about getting it all out; the pins can be stored wet without rusting.
 
tjhaile said:
The best method to get the media from the separator back into the tumbler drum is to pour it back in with the water. Place the drum some place where it can overflow without making a mess. Pour off about half of the water from the separator to make it easier to handle and then quickly pour the remaining water/media into the drum. If you get your pouring technique just right, you will have very few stray pins left in the separator to pick up with a magnet. Drain what water you can from the drum without spilling the pins, but don't worry about getting it all out; the pins can be stored wet without rusting.
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That's what I do in the laundry tub and place a nylon filter over a hanger to keep the odd pins from going down the drain
 
Kryogen said:
My issue with my wet tumbler is that I made the drum so big its heavy and bulky. I need a smaller container of similar width for smaller batches. I think that i could fit 2000 cases of 223 in mine. Its useful for batches of 1000+ but its only trouble for smaller batches.
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I made a nice drum from a 2 gallon pvc weed sprayer tank, its nice thick plastic, with a good sized opening cap. I pop riveted and glued one vain inside made of a piece of plastic angle .
 
Kryogen said:
My issue with my wet tumbler is that I made the drum so big its heavy and bulky. I need a smaller container of similar width for smaller batches. I think that i could fit 2000 cases of 223 in mine. Its useful for batches of 1000+ but its only trouble for smaller batches.

As for the motor, its a 1/3 hp with the drum mounted on steel rollers in industrial bearings so it could probably spin a 300 pounds drum all day....

I have to look into this, i made a smaller container but I think that I did not have time to attach an agitator in it.
Corncob tumbling is just trouble.... Takes long, does not clean well, cases are dusty and you get contaminated dust everywhere. Much easier to just rinse cases and dry, and get fully cleaned no dust cases.
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You can buy one of the smaller tumblers that should fill the bill like this: h ttp://www.canadiantreasureseekers.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=652
 
silverfoxdj said:
You can buy one of the smaller tumblers that should fill the bill like this: h ttp://www.canadiantreasureseekers.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=652
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Jesus that's too small, my "small" barrel is 12 inches by 4 inches.
My large one is 24 by 6

I just need to rivet and caulk some kind of pipe inside the small one as an agitator. I used 2 pieces of teflon in the large drum.
 
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I picked up a Shiney Tyler brass mining screen ( 1/4 in holes ) on eBay for $15 .. ( lucky break ) .. I can shake the literal s*** out of a load of brass over/in a meat truck , recover all my SS pins .. set it over a vent to dry .. works great .. fantastic for pre cleaning range brass and rinsing off the lemon shine/soap etc. ....

Just would not want to shake it if the wife is asleep :)


Like item # listed above ..average price is in the $60's US .. so wait for a deal .. my grankids great grankids will use it for something .. built like a tank ( plastic always breaks in time )
 
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Kryogen said:
Jesus that's too small, my "small" barrel is 12 inches by 4 inches.
My large one is 24 by 6

I just need to rivet and caulk some kind of pipe inside the small one as an agitator. I used 2 pieces of teflon in the large drum.
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You can use a piece of pvc plumbing pipe for a vane in the drum. use about 2 1/2" pipe and cut it lengthwise so it resembles a length of rounded angle iron, and glue/rivet that into the drum.
 
Kryogen said:
Jesus that's too small, my "small" barrel is 12 inches by 4 inches.
My large one is 24 by 6

I just need to rivet and caulk some kind of pipe inside the small one as an agitator. I used 2 pieces of teflon in the large drum.
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If you are just loading some rifle rounds you don't need a huge tumbler I use the smaller one 100 pieces for rifle and a 5lb unit for center fire serves my needs well and does not take up a lot of space
 
I was too cheap to buy one, so I made one from two dollar store containers, a hammer and a spend .308 case

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Works and chaep

Shawn
 
oh I just double checked, my large drum is 21x7'' and small one is 17x4''

I didn't even remember, but I had actually added a rubber strip in the small drum as an agitator, so technically it could work for smaller batches.
 
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