Looking at setting up for wet tumbling. Is the smaller F/A "lite" any good? I will only be doing 200 or so 357/ 38spl. or 44 mag at a time or 100 300 mag cases. Might even be 30-40 .416 rigby cases at a time. I don't shoot as much so thinking the smaller one might fit the bill. I have also heard that guys have had to add baffles to the inside of the jug to make it work better. Oh and do you have to buy some kind of power plug adapter for it, as I read about that also. Thoughts??
Frankford Arsenal any good?
- Thread starter icehunter121
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That's the one I own and use it with my .223 and 9mm casings. Fill it up and it works like a charm. You can purchase a screen to fit over the end when draining but I'm not sure what you mean by plug adapter. I use it with what it came with and have added nothing to the unit (again, not sure about baffles) and it works as it should.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
Phat Eagle
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- Fraser Valley, BC
I don't have their wet tumbler, but use their dry tumbler and trim and prep centre. The prep centre is very good in my book. Use it to prep a lot of .223 cases.
OkayShooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Nova Scotia
I had their Dry Tumbler, and use their hand primer. Their customer service to fix my hand primer was awesome. I had no issue with their Dry Tumbler. I just decided to upgrade.
I looked at their wet tumbler, and just decided to go with a Lyman one. It was cheaper and came with a sifting pan and the SS pins.
I paid 226$ and to my door was 260$
I looked at their wet tumbler, and just decided to go with a Lyman one. It was cheaper and came with a sifting pan and the SS pins.
I paid 226$ and to my door was 260$
The full size platinum tumbler is a beauty, works great, and if you're doing high volume of 223 you can fit a couple hundred in. It's probably overkill for your purposes though. The lite version looks nearly identical just smaller so would fit the bill. I haven't been disappointed with any FA product with the exception of the media separator that fits on a standard home depot bucket, the plastic is absolute garbage on the clips and I've already nearly snapped them after 2 months.
I use SS pins in the wet tumbler and they work great if you're swaging primer pockets. The rubber coating on the inside of the drum keeps the volume to a somewhat manageable level. As for the filter just hit up the dollar store and pick up a large fine mesh strainer for $4.
I use SS pins in the wet tumbler and they work great if you're swaging primer pockets. The rubber coating on the inside of the drum keeps the volume to a somewhat manageable level. As for the filter just hit up the dollar store and pick up a large fine mesh strainer for $4.
.30/06 FTW
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- Thunder Bay, Ontario
I’ve used their dry tumbler for a couple years and it’s worked pretty well, but the more OCD I become the more I feel the need to switch to a wet tumbler. I also recently came across a large batch of police brass in varying conditions and I don’t think that the dry tumbler is going to get them clean enough to reload.
I should have mentioned electrical plug. Some of the ones I was looking at on amazon were listed at 220V. I couldn't find the power listing on the smaller one. For some reason I am thinking the 220V one might have some kind of English electrical plug and this is what some guys were talking about for a adapter to fit over to Canadian.
