DIY tumbler speed motor control

[Whiterabbit]

I'd be REALLY interested in the results from nesting.

[johncmng]

Here's the picture from inside the tumbler.

[Whiterabbit]

thank you

[Munk]

Nesting can bugger up anything. Brass is soft enough that you can wedge a piece of cob, nut, or pins between nested cases and basically ruin one or both.

The extra time it takes to run them separate is worth it. I also doubt you'd be reloading both cases at the same time anyway, so while you work with one, you tumble the other.

I once gladly tore up a .40s&w to save the .460wby that it got stuck inside.

[Whiterabbit]

So you are saying that rotary tumbling does not reduce or eliminate the problem of nesting? Nothing you just said indicated that, either way.

[Munk]

So you are saying that rotary tumbling does not reduce or eliminate the problem of nesting? Nothing you just said indicated that, either way.

Yeah, I left out that the tumbling method is irrelevant. whoops.

The nesting itself is the problem with any manner of tumbling that uses media. (And sometimes even when you don't... damn things have gotten wedged in weird angles in an unsorted untumbled bag.)

I'd wager that even some of the powder polishes that are used for rock tumbling would find a way to bind the cases up.

Sonic cleaning would probably be less affected by nesting issues, and would likely not bind the cases up. Unfortunately, I have no idea how it would affect the resulting cleaning (It may actually be better due to sustained metal-on-metal vibration!)