If you’re thinking about getting into wet tumbling, the FART is on sale

The Frankford Arsenal Reloading Tumbler is on sale at Amazon for way below anywhere else at $130 and this tumbler is the standard for wet tumbling which is the way.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HTN4R6O

Excellent tool. Totally changed my process.

All I read was wet fart. Not sure why I clicked.

Is wet tumbling that much better than dry media with polish? My brass gets pretty clean with the latter but I've never wet tumbled before...

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Originally Posted by ER_STL

All I read was wet fart. Not sure why I clicked.

Is wet tumbling that much better than dry media with polish? My brass gets pretty clean with the latter but I've never wet tumbled before...

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Wet media curious...

You, sir, just cost me some money! Had my eye on one for awhile so glad to snag it on sale. Goodbye harbor freight rock tumbler.

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Originally Posted by Clusterfrack

Excellent tool. Totally changed my process.

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What “recipe” do you use? I’ve been using lemishine and armorall car wash n wax.

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Originally Posted by JCS

What “recipe” do you use? I’ve been using lemishine and armorall car wash n wax.

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My goal was to eliminate lead contamination from dry tumbling, and also not pollute the environment with the washing solution. From the papers I’ve read on washing lead contaminated soil, you need a ~2 millimolar solution of EDTA to chelate the lead. Roughly, that works out to 1 gram of EDTA per liter of water. Apparently you need to titrate the water to pH 8 in order for the EDTA to dissolve. After tumbling, I think we can just discard the solution since the lead is bound to the EDTA.

1/8 tsp washing soda per gal of hot tap water brings pH above 8. Then I add 1 tsp of EDTA for approx 4 mMol solution. To that, I add Lemishine and Wash-n-Wax, and pour that gallon into the brass-filled FART. It's working well so far.

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Originally Posted by Clusterfrack

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Looks like a deal. I still use a dry medium that gets brass clean enough for my purposes, but if I were buying into reloading gear for the first time I would spend the bucks on that one.

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Originally Posted by Clusterfrack

My goal was to eliminate lead contamination from dry tumbling, and also not pollute the environment with the washing solution. From the papers I’ve read on washing lead contaminated soil, you need a ~2 millimolar solution of EDTA to chelate the lead. Roughly, that works out to 1 gram of EDTA per liter of water. Apparently you need to titrate the water to pH 8 in order for the EDTA to dissolve. After tumbling, I think we can just discard the solution since the lead is bound to the EDTA.

1/8 tsp washing soda per gal of hot tap water brings pH above 8. Then I add 1 tsp of EDTA for approx 4 mMol solution. To that, I add Lemishine and Wash-n-Wax, and pour that gallon into the brass-filled FART. It's working well so far.

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Spoken like a true Bio Chemist. ;)

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Originally Posted by Borderland

Spoken like a true Bio Chemist. ;)

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I was thinking Mad Scientist, but close enough.😁