I wet tumbled with SS media and the tried it without the SS pins. Much better without pins to recover. Less overhead than dry vibrattion with corn cob media and I clean more brass in one batch.
I wet tumbled with SS media and the tried it without the SS pins. Much better without pins to recover. Less overhead than dry vibrattion with corn cob media and I clean more brass in one batch.
No pink hue, but if you are getting good results with 1/8 of a teaspoon of the citric acid I have been wasting a bunch of it. I poured the bulk back into the Lemishine bottle, and have just been using "some", but it has been way more than you are. Getting good results, but I can probably back off significantly.
And if a guy is going to skip the pins anyway, the HF looks like an option. I think they should offer a FART option without the pins.
Took the plunge and picked up the harbor freight dual tumbler on sale for $40 today.
It may be a bit before I get a dehydrator so in the meantime does anyone have any recommendations on alternative drying methods?
I see someone said they just set them on a towel. I'll go with that unless someone has another suggestion.
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"Shooting is 90% mental. The rest is in your head." -Nils
That was me.
I pour them on a towel, kinda form sort of a tube out of the towel, grab the ends and hold to apart end to end, and roll the cases back and forth a few times. Then I make sure they are all tipped over on their sides.
In a few days they will be ready, depending on local humidity. I grab one and push out a primers to check.
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I found a toaster oven with a cracked door to be too much, fyi
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To elaborate on this a bit more, I used to have one of the old style RCBS wet tumblers and that was before you could get a dehydrator for $50. All I ever did was lay them flat on a towel (and all I will probably continue to do, but I have my dry machine to fall back on). It takes a few days, and eventually you will probably want a dryer, but as someone who has accumulated a lotta reloading equipment I sure didn't buy it all at the same time. The wet process is so fast you can cycle a lot of cases through the tumbler in an evening, you will just have to remember to do it a few days in advance.
One thing I wanted to mention as an option is they dry out probably overnight without the primers. I have a Lee decap die that is cheap (and handy), or maybe use a size die for a larger cartridge. This is not something you are going to want to do all the time, just an option for "Crap, I forgot to tumble and I need to load 150 rounds tomorrow" kinda situation.