Comments on: New Rotary Tumbler for Wet-Cleaning Cartridge Brass

By: steve roemer

steve roemer — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:55:12 +0000

I told my buddy about the $159,99 deal on 6br.com on this tumbler…as advertised……no dates for expiration…..now the price is risen to $200 4 DAYS LATER….BULLSHIT…. if youre gonna screw us, at least give the dates the good deals end…..Steve

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By: joe

joe — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 04:13:56 +0000

I use a “Lortone” “wet” rock tumbler bought at e-Bay. I cover the brass with warm water, add a few drops of dish washer and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. After 2 hours remove the dirty water, add fresh warm water and a fey drops of dish washer;tumble for another 2 hours and brass comes out shiny like new…

By: steve

steve — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 00:56:47 +0000

I use a cement mixer I bought from Lowes, has a plastic drum not steel.
I use Lizard Liter (crushed walnut) treated with nufinish car polish.
I dump a 5 gallon bucket of brass at a time with a 25 pound bag of lizard liter. run it several hours, the range brass comes out clean like new.
for smaller batches of target stuff I have a vibrating tumbler, but for pistol or 5.56 range brass, I get great results with my cement mixer.
don’t deprime first with the stainless steel, I had bad results of loose primers with military LC brass afterwards. but that was just my results, others have great results. I still have 15 pounds of it I may not ever use again.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:45:16 +0000

The good old treated corn cob works just fine, for me!

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:27:01 +0000

+1 on the Thumbler Model B and 5lbs of SS pins.

I’ve gone through 3 drive belts and one lid seal – it just works.

One tip I learned that was counterintuitive; use only cold water
(with Lemishine and a squirt of dishwash soap). Hot water for some reason gives the brass a weird color.

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:11:46 +0000

Jimmie,
I can’t supply any answers to your question, but I can report on the STM method in two Thumbler’s tumblers, one with 5 pounds of STM, and one with 1 pound of STM for smaller jobs. After cleaning 10,000+ brass cases, both rifle and pistol, I say look no further. It is proven. The results are just like the pictures in the AS article. Of course, there is a learning curve as there is with every process. One observation; once you’re up to speed you’ll find you can cram the drum nearly full of brass no problem, just leave enough internal room for adequate agitation and use a light lube on the drive and driven shafts supporting the drum. The Thumbler’s will run just fine for as long as you like.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:39:32 +0000

Just curious: I wonder how this review by Mr. Jason Koplin would have been if half of the brass cleaned up was done in one of these sonic cleaners in a side-by-side investigation. Nothing wrong with the review at all. In fact I much appreciate the information. I just haven’t done much cleaning while here in Afghanistan and the new stuff look pretty good. Anybody done a test pitting the “systems” against each other? with 9 kids (just one wife!) I hate to spend money twice when once would have worked. Thanks