Anyone else finish tumble?

[Red9]

Per title. Is it too ocd to finish tumble your finished product?

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[rsrocket1]

Yes it is. Clean is good enough, shiny is just to satisfy a personal need. No you won't mess up the powder characteristics and no you probably aren't pushing the projectiles further into the case and causing a dangerous setback.

By the way, did you measure the COAL of every cartridge after the tumbling to convince yourself that you didn't?

...just messing with you. If it floats your boat, go for it. Nice looking range fodder.

[boomer135]

I did that when I started reloading only to remove case lube.

a few weeks later I didn't see the point with using carbide dies. I stopped using case lube on straight wall pistol brass.

Yes, the press runs better with a little case lube, but just not needed.

[MrElectric03]

Very rarely. I deprime my brass and tumble in stainless so it's very clean. I mostly switched to ss tumbling because I hated digging corn cob out of .223 cases and wanted to tumble more cases at once. Occasionally if I live brass then load I'll tumble it after but removing the case lube would be the only reason.

[TexasJackKin]

Back in the day, we thought it could change to burn characteristics of the powder (by rubbing off any coating, or breaking it into smaller pieces) However, this seems to be nothing more than an urban legend, that several folks here on Cal Guns have dis-proven.

[MarkG35]

Not if you like it that way.

[SonofWWIIDI]

Meh, your time and effort, your choice.

It is shiny though.

[Bobshouse]

If you want to keep that fresh and shiney look, you should vacuum seal them.

[liber]

I never do. I don't even use stainless pins when I wet tumble, the cases get clean enough that my dies don't get dirty.

These were done for 2 hours, no pins. They were 223 cases that I cut down, and resized into 300 AAC Blackout cases. 2 hours was plenty to get them clean. They just need to get a slight trim and will be ready to load.

[Red9]

Yes it is. Clean is good enough, shiny is just to satisfy a personal need. No you won't mess up the powder characteristics and no you probably aren't pushing the projectiles further into the case and causing a dangerous setback.

By the way, did you measure the COAL of every cartridge after the tumbling to convince yourself that you didn't?

...just messing with you. If it floats your boat, go for it. Nice looking range fodder.

O crap.... Now you have me thinking.... Ocd must resist the temptation to measure the Coal...

I did that when I started reloading only to remove case lube.

a few weeks later I didn't see the point with using carbide dies. I stopped using case lube on straight wall pistol brass.

Yes, the press runs better with a little case lube, but just not needed.

Running Dillon 550 with carbide dies. No case lube yet. I may try the lube too.

Very rarely. I deprime my brass and tumble in stainless so it's very clean. I mostly switched to ss tumbling because I hated digging corn cob out of .223 cases and wanted to tumble more cases at once. Occasionally if I live brass then load I'll tumble it after but removing the case lube would be the only reason.

I wet tumble with SS pins. Then deprime, and tumble again to clean the pockets. Reload then, tumble the finished rounds in corn cob. My Ocd and voices in my head keep telling me they need to be shiney.

Not if you like it that way.

Meh, your time and effort, your choice.

It is shiny though.

Thanks, extras step, makes the voices in my head happy.

Lol thanks Cgn'rs.

[Divernhunter]

Never have.
I start with clean brass and tumble rifle brass after resizing to remove lube.
Do not see any benefit in doing so. Could be harmful in my mind

[Red9]

Got some pulled pellets. I ran those through the tumbler as well. They were pretty dirty from american reloading.

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[tanks]

Hmmm, my American Reloading pulled bullets arrived a couple of days ago. If mine are as dirty I might run them as well. Though I have my tumbler going full time. I have about 7 thousand pieces of brass to do and at 500 a pop at 3 hours each it is going to take a while.

[PCIII]

Hmmm, my American Reloading pulled bullets arrived a couple of days ago. If mine are as dirty I might run them as well. Though I have my tumbler going full time. I have about 7 thousand pieces of brass to do and at 500 a pop at 3 hours each it is going to take a while.

Sounds like you need a bigger tumbler

[drdarrin@sbcglobal.net]

Anyone else finish tumble?

Yes, it's entirely too OCD. It's unnecessary and a complete waste of time.

You'll have to excuse me. I have 500 rounds of loaded 45 ACP I need to get out of the tumbler now. Don't want to wear them out.


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