Help with wet tumbling

[Moparformances]

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is there a chance the tumbler is over full?? not enough room left over for movement???

[Calguns77]

Ok so it seems like I definitely used too much lemishine, but I'm curious if I'm using too much soap too? How much soap are you guys using?

I never measure the soap i just do a quick squirt but probably 1/2 tsp if its a full load maybe less. A little goes a long way.

[Red9]

Using a hf tumbler as well. Few small drops of dawn, pinch of ls, ss pins, 1 hour done. Then quick dunk in diluted car wash so it stays shiney.



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[kriller134]

to OP

is there a chance the tumbler is over full?? not enough room left over for movement???

It's about 3/4 full

[Paseclipse]

Here's a good thread about the FART to go through and read- https://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_42/4...have-one-.html

I'll fill up my FART about 80% full, add a squirt of Dawn and a 45 ACP case full of Lemishine. Add hot tap water and 5 lbs of pins then let it run for 1.5-2 hours. Drain, rinse, then let the brass dry overnight on a towel.

If I'm doing rifle brass, I'll run it through before resizing without Lemishine and pins for an hour. After resizing I'll run the brass though again with pins and Lemishine for another hour. Drain, rinse, and let it dry on a towel overnight.

To get your process down and find the best method for you it really takes some experimentation. At least this is what I had to do to nail down my process.

[OzzieDoc]

Ammo I load on a Dillon 550 mainly 9mm and 38spl plinking ammo doesn't get deprimed first. It goes from being fired to the tumbler, dried and then reloaded. Rifle brass takes lube so it's sized, deprimed and trimmed then tumbled. On plinking ammo I do not see a reason to add another step

If you are trying to save a "step" for your plinking ammo then you should stop wet tumbling.

All you need is a couple of minutes in a dry media with NuFinish or the like, it adds lubricity easing sizing. Any dirt that could possibly damage dies is removed in minutes and there is no need for a drying cycle so you save heaps of time.

If you want bling then you need to tumble for a few hours; again no drying time.

The advantage wet tumbling has is the way it cleans primer pockets and controls heavy metal contamination.

Wet tumbling without decapping first misses the point.

I don't just decap, I FLS my bulk pistol cases before I wet tumble.

Reloading clean, already sized cases on a progressive or semi progressive machine is a revelation because most of the hard work is already done.

[OzzieDoc]

The other factor that seems to cause a lot of problems with the end result is the presence of nickel, either from including nickel plated brass or from plated primers.

Lots of reports of a range of problems, probably determined by the different cleaners used.

[SixPointEight]

The other factor that seems to cause a lot of problems with the end result is the presence of nickel, either from including nickel plated brass or from plated primers.

Lots of reports of a range of problems, probably determined by the different cleaners used.

I find Nickel brass turns black if tumbled for more than...2 hours of so. Don't exactly know why, but all my nickel brass goes in a separate pile and tumbled for much less time

[Calguns77]

I find Nickel brass turns black if tumbled for more than...2 hours of so. Don't exactly know why, but all my nickel brass goes in a separate pile and tumbled for much less time

Weird, my nickel cases always seem to clean faster and look amazing no matter the length i tumble them and i usually let it run for 3hrs.

[Briancnelson]

Make sure you aren't leaving your media and tumbler filthy. Every few runs I tumble the ss media by itself with a bit of dawn and rinse it thoroughly. When I didn't I started getting duller brass.

[MarikinaMan]

Make sure you aren't leaving your media and tumbler filthy. Every few runs I tumble the ss media by itself with a bit of dawn and rinse it thoroughly. When I didn't I started getting duller brass.

^^^ sounds like unnecessary work.

Run the tumbler a few seconds before dumping out the water. Agitation will allow u to pour most of the dirt out with the water. If you let the tumbler sit a few minutes after tumbling, the dirt will settle and accumulate with the pins thru time.

[Briancnelson]

I did that. 15 minutes with no brass now and then still gets a lot of crap out.