Case Cleaning

From what I read a majority don't as then crap gets into the whole where the primer goes. I guess it is personal preference.

On a side note, are tumblers loud? I am in an apartment and don't wanna leave something running all day if it sounds like a jet.

Thanks
 
Tumble them brass before depriming.

Tumbling is loud, but not that loud. I leave it running in a closed washroom at the basement for 2-hours. I suppresses the noise a bit.

You dont need the whole day to tumble a spent brass.
 
I pop before tumble. Sit there hour after hour manually decapping while watching tv (universal decapper in a Lee hand press. I decap and resize 9mm at the same time, as the taper in 9mm needs a strong resize push and the lee hand press gives me more leverage than my turret). Then into the tumbler. I use a fairly fine media so I don't have stuff stuck in the pockets and I get clean pockets too...:) If you reprime on the press, you don't need to decap (as long as you are using a decapper/resizer, as that will be done in one op. I hand prime with an autoprime, so I clean 'em up before that.
 
primers

I have ordered a universal decapper for my rcbs press, They had a note on the Speer website to tumble then decap and re-size, but they did not explain the reason why? I figure I will de-cap then tumble, clean primer pocket then re-size. Should work fine?

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I decap first then tumble. I have an old sizer pin that I use to clear the flash hole should it need it. A little run around the primer pocket gets rid of the soot that the tumbler didn't get.
 
I just tumble then deprime, when you put your cases in your press to resize, and deprime the media chunk in the primer pocket comes out with the old primer.
 
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