Comments on: Wet Tumbling Brass with Stainless Media — Eye-Opening Results

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:40:10 +0000

I tried dry with corn. Took over 8 hours to clean and didnt do a very good job on the inside of the case at all. Swithed to wet with SS pins and the before and after is insane and took about 1-2hours.
I will be sticking with wet, using a magnet clean up was easy and not more dust or corn in my cases.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:55:01 +0000

I use a strainer to catch the stainless media while rinsing.

By: mikee

mikee — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 02:05:41 +0000

The best case cleaning system yet. Have cleaned hundreds of cases over the past year. Never a problem. There is no damage to the cases. Recommended

By: David Joe

David Joe — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 00:57:51 +0000

Wet stainless media with Dawn and Lemmi Clean produces an amazing as-new shine. I’ve never experienced damage. Pouring away a couple cycles of gray to black water tells you the state of cleanliness. This is the difference between washing your hands under the faucet versus just rubbing them together with a squirt of sanitizer. Maybe this doesn’t have to be done every single firing for many guns. Dry media particles cannot begin to scour the inside of pockets let alone the interior void.

I station a Texas Tumbler by Mark Roberts at a utility sink and simply tilt and refill it with the accessory sprayer. No need for magnets, just reach in, gather eight or so into your hand case necks down, and all the pins fall out with a couple shakes. In one motion remove and then put the neck up cases under the running sink faucet to flush them out, them drop them into a towel lined box.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:28:27 +0000

Some one with the equipment to a before and after inspection of the soft brass following impact cleaning by hard pins.

Pretty is not always good.

By: Chase

Chase — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 17:50:50 +0000

Ultrasonic cleaner for me. Run it in the cleaner then bake off the moisture, no messing around with pins stuck in the case or potential damage from tumbling a harder and tougher metal into a softer metal.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 04:45:15 +0000

A magnet isn’t a big deal…they’re cheap. Cheaper than the time to poke compacted softer media out of places!

By: Lewis Harrell

Lewis Harrell — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:57:34 +0000

Yeah, it works great. However, the wet system is a mess to deal with. The cases come out wet, you have to dispose of the dirty water and detergent, hope you have a deep sink, and the steel pins stick in the cases. Unless you have the magnet gizmo to remove the pins you’re going to get some pins in your load no matter what you do. Ill stick to dry media.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:51:31 +0000

Some F Class shooters believe the tumbling actually damages the mouth of the case and that causes uneven neck tension which causes wide velocity spread.

I wonder if anyone else has seen this?

I’ve always figured the damage didn’t matter as long as the inside of the neck gets chamfered after the stainless media tumble.