Wet tumbling
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I had a new laundry sick installed in my garage just for doing this. The trap has a drain on the bottom of it that a Lee Valley rare earth magnet fits into perfectly. Catches all the pins that decide to go crazy. But it seems no matter what I do, there is always a pin or 3 that manages to go ballistic and take off, that I find says later meters away from where I am cleaning the brass.
I've been told that adding another 5lbs of media to my wet tumbling will reduce the peening of the case mouths? Anyone?
I've been told that adding another 5lbs of media to my wet tumbling will reduce the peening of the case mouths? Anyone?
So for now I'm just being a little more patient and using my grit guard in my bucket. Basically it's a plastic piece that fits in a bucket. It is to prevent your glove or sponge from coming into contact with the bottom of the bucket where all the grit is when washing your car. Works fairly well.
My next question is how are you guys preventing tarnishing or fingerprints on your newly cleaned brass? Jet dry? Something else?
Thanks
My next question is how are you guys preventing tarnishing or fingerprints on your newly cleaned brass? Jet dry? Something else?
Thanks
Clean brass is a beautiful thing. I know it has to do a little with OCD, but if there's a little something I can do to prevent waterspots and tarnishing that would be great. If not no big deal as the brass that has been tumbled looks better then most coming out of a box.
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- West Quebec
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Check with Rooky a member here ...
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1264168-Stainless-Tumbling-Media
jet dry or lemishine in the tumbler water keeps the water spots off. After I run my brass through the media separator I toss them in a towel to get as much excess moisture off as possible, then into the oven they go. or the sun or in front of the fireplace. Live rounds in the oven is fun too...
Where do you get lemishine from? I did my first batch of 100 cases just using sunlight dish soap and the media from the Frankford arsenal tumbler, I didn't have a single pin stuck inside, is that normal or are the pins too big to go inside? Is that intended? I also noticed some primer pockets had some black still, I'm assuming 2 hours wasn't enough to get all primer pockets clean.
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- Fort St John BC
I use dawn and lemishine for about a hour in tumbler works great
waynewjw
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Holy crap, this sounds like a PITA process. Tumble with wet, pins that peen the case mouth, losing pins, mixing solutions. Think I'll stick with my Lyman walnut mix dry tumbler. Takes 2-3 hours while I work on something else.....or not, flip the tumbler bowl over and out comes all the crap. No drying, using magnets. Just my 2 cents.
I've had the Frankford wet tumbler for awhile and maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems far easier to dry tumble with walnut or corn media. After not using it for quite some time, I did a batch of .308 in the wet tumbler the other day, and the case mouths got peened pretty good. The primer pockets were clean though, so I guess it has good and bad points but it sure seems like a lot more work than dry tumbling.
Case comes out a lot cleaner. A LOT easier on larger cases to size after WT vs DT.
DT has lots more dust that is bad for you. When you look at the pitch black water from WT, then imagine breathing that as dust, makes the WT worth the extra effort.
Try flipping your tumbler bowl over a box to see how much dust falls out.
DT has lots more dust that is bad for you. When you look at the pitch black water from WT, then imagine breathing that as dust, makes the WT worth the extra effort.
Try flipping your tumbler bowl over a box to see how much dust falls out.
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- Fort St John BC
I have never had peening on my cases. The drying and media seperation is a bit of a pita but the result is far better then dry and faster. Not sure what people are doing differently to get peening
rip..911> Better question is why you are NOT getting peening. If you read this entire thread you'll see many example of peening on bottleneck cases that will affect precision handloading.
So if you aren't getting peening on bottleneck cases you are either NOT looking hard enough or NEED to SHARE your secret.
So if you aren't getting peening on bottleneck cases you are either NOT looking hard enough or NEED to SHARE your secret.
