Wet tumbler - I did it!

[Apex998]

I got mine at Cambodian Tire


Booster

I think you meant China Tire, ...most of their products are sourced from there. I'm pretty sure they have nothing from Cambodia lol

 

[Apex998]

A pin jam up a press is one thing,
But a pin shorting your AMP annealing machine is where the fear is at!

Now that is a scary thought, I have tried the wet tumbling in the past but haven't recently. Yes it makes things nice and shiny inside and out, but you also lose that nice carbon inside neck lube on fired cases too. Mind you most of my brass never touches the ground, and is not reclaimed from, who knows how many times fired, picked up from the ground.

 

[yomomma]

I think you meant China Tire

Nope...been calling it Cambodian Tire since the early '80s

 

[sharp shooter]

Well I have some lemi shine and turtle wax zip wash & wax on hand and the kit should arrive today. I will doing 222, 204, 22-250 and 243. Are the pins sticking in the cases really a thing or will a proper rinsing fix this.

 

[b_w.]

I am on the fence on wet tumbling. I have found pins get stuck on most calibres and always double check. I have now removed the pins and will also try the dry media. I dont pick up range brass so anything is what I am shooting. Going to revive my Dillon 550 and process some of my higher volume rifle calibres on that. tumble with primers, anneal, lube with one shot, deprime, resize, expander.

 

[Smcx]

I can’t count the number of rounds I’ve wet tumbled. In probably more than a dozen pistol and rifle calibres. I haven’t had a single stuck pin. Maybe it’s your pins? Maybe it’s your media separator?

Also, I deprime before wet tumbling.

 

[sharp shooter]

Well I did my first two batches today. No pins stuck in anything. I sifted through the Lyman media sieves that came with the cyclone kit. It didn't get all of them out but I put all the cases on a towel on the workbench with a cow magnet and shook all the brass up in the towel with the magnet. The magnet caught about 20 pins first shake, 5 next shake and 0 for the next few shakes. The entire rinsing and sifting process took about 10 minutes including towel shaking. For the amount of brass I was able to clean and how well it cleaned the really rough stuff, I think it was a good investment. I'll likely still use my vibratory for cleaning cleanish brass and just leave the primers in. I also like the fact that there is no dust or residue what so ever on or in the brass for when I anneal which I typically do every other firing or there abouts. Lets see how well they do before tarnishing now.