Free Tumbler

[jimh]

so our pastor is leaving and getting moved to another parish. before he came to ours he was at a small poor parish and had to be creative to make ends meet. one of the things he did was buy a tumbler to polish all the old brass pulls and what not in the old church. that tumbler followed him to our parish where he never used it again. so now that he's leaving and packing he decided to thin his herd a little bit and asked me if i wanted it and the media seperator. it is a Dillion vibrating tumbler and it is huge. (but then again i don't know if that's the only size) so itlooks like i'll be taking all those empty 7mm and .243 cases i have and at least get them shinny and clean. heck maybe with it being a blessed tumbler it will make all my rifles shoot one holers but i ain't counting on that.

[Jack]

Good deal, Jim !

[twomoons]

Now instead of buying tumbling media at way high prices go to Earl Mays and buy lizzard bedding. It's the same stuff, ground walnut hull and it costs 1/10 as much. I IMPROVE mine by adding scraps of my polishing sticks.

[jimh]

he gave me a tub of walnut hull, and corn cob media, the corn cob has some polishing agent in it he said. who or what is Earl Mays by the way?

[Purebred Redneck]

You're about 5 pieces away from being a reloader...also a free-loader...

[jimh]

you're a hoot!

[twomoons]

Earl May's pet and garden center, very popuular in the midwest, like Gurney's.

At least you wernt so desperate you put media and shells in your baby moons and drove to town and back, been there done that.

[jimh]

May 21, 2008 15:52:12 GMT -5 twomoons said:

At least you wernt so desperate you put media and shells in your baby moons and drove to town and back, been there done that.

ok so i got's ta ask, does that actualy work?

[jimh]

i just checked the nodel, it is a dillion Magnum FL 2000B.

[twomoons]

Yes Baby Moons works, but it sure is noisy. I have also used a clothes dryer. Put your media in a cloth bag along with the brass and set on no heat for 40 minutes. Only did that once! Wife objected with violence.

[jimh]

man that hopper is so big on this thing i could get a whole tribe of brass monkeys in it.
do i need to remove the old primers before i put the shells in? i might do a few anyway just to see how well it works this weekend. heck might even throw in a few pennies just so my kid can have some shinny new looking ones. he'll be tickled.

[Jack]

Jim, removing primers is optional.
If you remove the primers first, you may get some cleaning action in the primer pockets, which some people prefer. The downside is this: you also get media stuck in the flash hole, sometimes. Then you have to inspect the cases and poke the bit of media out with a toothpick or a dental pick.
If you size after tumbling, the decapper automatically knocks the media out of the flash hole.
The downside to tumbling after sizing is that you may run gritty cases into your sizer, possibly scratching the sizer.
Another possible upside to tumbling after sizing: you can let the tumbling remove the sizing lubricant from the cases. That does eventually foul the media, though.
No free lunch.
I use a universal decapper to remove primers, then tumble the cases clean. Then size.

[bounce]

jimh, Now don't forget to say thanks every sunday & you just might fall into the other 5 pieces? I have a CH I think it's tank is 1/2 the size you got but I have ben happy with it, should use it more than I do. I use it alot when loading BP shells As it works better than a drop tube, just touch the base of the shell to the center rod when running and it settels the powder perficaly.