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2500ish with pins I use an enclosed media separator dump the dirty water and whatever pins fall out through the slotted cap, into the bottom of it, pour off water, use magnet to move pins to a jar. Then pour in half the brass into the clamshell basket, fill the unit with water about half way up the bottom basket. Close lid, spin slowly, back and forth for a few minutes. pour off that water, and repeat, dump that brass on a towel after shaking it a bunch in the basket. Roll it around in the towel to get rid of surface water. Then into the oven or other drying method of your choice. Dump the other half of the brass into the basket, do the first rinse in the left over water from the first basket of brass's second rinse. Dump that water and do one more rinse, then repeat the rest of the steps. If you want to be really frugal use that last water to fill up the FART for it's next pass.

Not a fan of them myself, but I run an 11lb mainspring in my Shadow and have problems with them regularly. With a 13lb no issues. So they are just practice primers for me

my pins just fall into the bottom of the media separator and I use a magnet to pick them up. Can't get any more simple than that really.

do you have any pics?

I use the magnet to grab the pins out of the bottom of the separator, this helps avoid the crap that accumulates from being put back into the FART

FART, best one available short of a cement mixer

Figured it out the plastic bushing in the clamp needs to be replaced

this is new for me. Doesn't matter if the Dillon measure is mounted on the 1050 or on a single stage with a powder die (for setting loads), about 3/4 of the way down on the handle pull the measure tilts forward and klunks. This is an old measure, but has a new casting on the hopper side. I cannot figure out what the klunk is from.

I noticed a sharp edge on brass tumbled for more than 1.5hrs, so I only tumble most of my brass for an hour. I've also been told that tumbling without pins will stop this from occurring, which if you have really filthy brass that needs to have the outside cleaned for a couple hours, would be easy to do, then throw pins in for a 3rd hour to finish.

ahh, ok, thanks for clearing that up. Will check and see if I can get that up here in the frozen north. again thanks.

That's just adding more stuff to my mix, with my current use of laundry detergent it's two rinses.

my issue with Federal primers is that they flip right as they fall in the tube of the RF or they flip when the first 20 or so drop into the tube from the RF tube when I pull the pin

I tried Dawn and went back to laundry detergent, rinsing the Dawn took longer than the laundry detergent did.

funny I prefer having less spring pressure on the tube on my RF100. I find that Federals do flip, 1 in 200 usually, CCI never, S&B never and even the Chinese Dominion primers don't flip, although they do get hung up now and then at the tube or even at the entrance to the plastic plate. But not enough to really annoy me.

gonna try this with a couple of my tumblers I'm not using anymore, looks awesome!

watching the video on that SS media supplier site is painful. But the pins are something I think I might order. the XL ones I think?

hahaha, didn't win last night damnit!

Once I went to wet tumbling I had my entire house, including the air vents, furnace and air returns cleaned. 65lbs of crap came out of the vents (mostly cat litter dust from having 7 cats for 10 years), We tested that dust too though, and yup same positive as the dust in the spare bedroom. I just tested again yesterday with my own Dlead test kit, the area around my press still showed positive, but nowhere else in the house did, that made me happy.

I love my Dillon RF100 most of the time, but the old Lee hand primer I converted into a tube filler is waaay faster. But you need to sit there with the tube against a tumbler that's running to get it work. Whereas the DIllon fills the tube while I'm gauging ammo that's coming off the press. Since it loads the tubes faster than the Mark VII can pump out ammo, it's all good.

Dude if I won the lottery I would absolutely hire you to just make cool stuff. My brain simply does not work the way yours does. I'm a power engineer by trade, I made steam. That's as inventive as I've got. Oh wait, and my primer filler thing I made out of a Lee hand primer, but I think I saw one on here and just copied that. Seriously, I had trouble building stuff with Lego, and that was following the instructions. I have a huge amount of respect for people that can come up stuff like you do. I've got a couple buddies who are pretty good too, but nothing in your league.

if I inspected the cases before loading I'd spend 3 times as long or more, looking at cases vs loading. I can deal with the odd bent pin, which I've had from rocks, buckshot, media/polish and stainless pins, although not as oriented as the above pic shows. the few times it's happened it's two pins stuck like an X in the flash hole of a non deprimed case.

I don't understand how your mind works dude, that's freaking cool. I have a manual indexing 2000 and have been wanting to pick up the auto indexing head for it. If there was a cost effective case feeder I'd do that too. I only use it for 50 AE, 44, and 45. Not sure the timing would work for the first two.

I chuckled out loud at that pic

I wish you were my neighbor, although I am surprised you don't have the micrometer screw on the Uniflow, I couldn't live without one now.

regarding how much lead is in the dust from dry tumbling. A lot. When my first lead test triggered the whole Health Canada investigation into how my lead levels could be so high (can't remember the number right now, but it's in a thread here on the forum), we tested the floor around my tumblers in the basement with a lead test kit. The results, not shockingly, were positive, and high positive. We also tested dust 3 floors up in a spare bedroom, that dust came back with nearly the same color on the test swab. That was enough of a reason for me to change tumbling habits. But, all I did then was get a covered media separator and do it outside, mostly. Now that I've gone to the wet tumbling I don't have to worry about it at all anymore.