RCBS tumbler broken again

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I think I ran about 4-5 batches through my original one before the motor died. RCBS gladly replaced the dead motor. This time it lasted 3 batches, the center shaft that the bowl mounts on snapped, and the motor burned out again while rattling around my garage floor.

I'm thinking about asking RCBS to just send me something else rather than replacing this again, there are a lot of bad stories out there about RCBS's tumblers over the last few years.

Did I just get a bad one maybe? If I replace it, what with? Lyman seems to have pretty bad customer service, and Hornady is out of stock pretty much everywhere.
 
I have a Dillon CV 500. I never had a second of trouble with it. They cost more but at least they are trouble free & I never overload it. I managed to get mine new for $125
 
I've been using a Lyman for more than 20 years....damned if I know what model it is; it handles about a hundred rounds of .30-06. It's an orange 'pumpkin' looking thing...I couldn't begin to guess how many thousands of hours are on it. On the average, it's probably run overnight for a couple of nights a month for all those years and never missed a beat.

One thing I've always done was to stick a piece of scrap carpet under it. I noticed that on bare cement it was starting to wear away its own bottom. It makes it a lot quieter as well.
 
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X 3 On the lyman tumbler. I have been running a turbo 1200 for over ten years and it hasn't missed a beat. I am one of those guys that has to have the shiniest brass on the line so I let the thing run overnight everytime I use it. I have also been known to overload it as well but it still runs like a clock.

Sorry to hear about the RCBS though, seams to be all I use for reloading and I have never had a problem with any of there products or their customer service.
 
I went RCBS on a tumbler as well, but I got the 'Sidewinder', just in case I get into some real stuborn cleaning and have to use a chemical solution. So far, it's been like the 'Energiser Bunny'. It just keeps going & going, no complaints. Oh, I forget what it cost but I did phone and inquire about their 'show/demo' items and they had one available so that's what I got.
 
a reloading friend of mine died recently, he'd been reloading for fifty years or more. His RCBS tumbler was left to another friend, it's at least fifteen years old, and works like a charm.
Me, I use a Lyman, and mines a good twenty years old. No complaints.
 
I have to say, RCBS is great, they shipped the motor without a question, and I've read of several people that had a chain of bad base model tumblers getting sent a few sets of dies or whatever of equivilant value. I'll see what they say on Monday, but those Thumbler tumblers looks excellent.
 
I talked to a guy at my range who has been using the cabella's vibratory tumbler for 4 years w/o a hitch.

I bought it only to realize its actually a rebranded Berry's Model 400 vibratory tumbler.

I LOVE it :) And cheap to boot too!
 
RCBS is sending me an entire new tumbler, they think I got a lemon and wanted me to try another, can't lose I guess :) Great service on the phone as usual.
 
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