Need help with reloading equipment.

[cc56]

Hello all,
For Christmas I got a Dillon 550B reloader. I have been saving brass for a while, because I knew one day my reloader would be here. I have been buying what I can but all of the start up stuff costs a lot. I was wondering if anybody would let me use their brass cleaner. A lot of my brass is real dirty and the cleaners seem to cost over $100. I live in Huntington Beach in Orange County. CAN ANYONE HELP PLEASE?

[30Cal]

You can just wipe the cases down with a rag. The primary concern is to get dirt/grit off them to keep from scratching your dies. Anything past that is cosmetic.

[wildcard]

You'll eventually buy one so might as well get it now Shouldn't cost $100 though. Here's a good one i've been using for awhile for $62. Can't really go wrong with the RCBS products. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...853&hasJS=true

[pklin1297]

The Frankford Arsenal stuff is cheap but does the job. You can find them on ebay, MidwayUSA, just to name a couple of places...

Here is one: http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpag...eitemid=317981

Only limitation is size of bowl, which means you might have to clean in several batches to feed the volume your new 550B can produce. Nice present!

Harbor Freight sells a tumbler also, but I have no experience with it.

[CSACANNONEER]

I just ordered a Frankford Arsenal Tumbler Kit for 1/2 price from Midway.

[rksimple]

The cheap tumblers will work well for what you need them to do now. I've gone through a few of them and haven't noticed much of a difference between the frankford, hornady, lyman, etc. Find a cheap one and get it. The 1/2 price midway one sounds good.

[ar15barrels]

I have a midway tumbler (now sold as the frankford arsenal) that you can have for $20 if you want to come get it.
I'll even throw in enough media to get you going.

[Sheldon]

Can't beat $20 !!