Joe A. Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Greeting to all from Virginia...I have been reloading since the mid 70's and a loyal Dillon products user since day one.I have been interested in the Stainless Steel Media almost a years now. Read every posting from different sites and did some checking for available equipment. Shy of a concrete mixer,the majority of the drums only allow small quantity's of brass. Being a home hobby machinist,with the occasional fit of madness,I decided to made a drum with the capability of 500 plus 5.56 cases. For general info about the drum,it is a piece of utility PVC water supply pipe that has a internal diameter of 8 inch's with a length of 12 inches. I have been working up a photo collection that I will post to my favorite hobby machinist chat site once this monster has life. I have on hand a Dayton reduction gear drive motor that has a 1/4 HP an output rate of 5.6 R.P.M.'S. My logic is to have the brass rolled and tumbled by internal baffles inside the drum. Now I am not sure if the R.P.M rate will be slow and extend the run time needed to accomplish a desired cleaning. I can make an external gear combination to get whatever final drum rate. So my question to anyone that has a working liquid system,what is your approximate drum rotation rate. Thank you to all that may reply...My best wishes to all from Virginia.JoeA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acekc Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I use stainless media with a Thumler model B and like the results a lot. You might want to check out this thread: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=141007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youngeyes Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I use stainless media with a Thumler model B and like the results a lot. You might want to check out this thread: http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=141007 Check out this one as well. http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130815&st=50&p=1516517&hl=case%20tumbler&fromsearch=1entry1516517 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggdawg Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Greeting to all from Virginia...I have been reloading since the mid 70's and a loyal Dillon products user since day one.I have been interested in the Stainless Steel Media almost a years now. Read every posting from different sites and did some checking for available equipment. Shy of a concrete mixer,the majority of the drums only allow small quantity's of brass. Being a home hobby machinist,with the occasional fit of madness,I decided to made a drum with the capability of 500 plus 5.56 cases. For general info about the drum,it is a piece of utility PVC water supply pipe that has a internal diameter of 8 inch's with a length of 12 inches. I have been working up a photo collection that I will post to my favorite hobby machinist chat site once this monster has life. I have on hand a Dayton reduction gear drive motor that has a 1/4 HP an output rate of 5.6 R.P.M.'S. My logic is to have the brass rolled and tumbled by internal baffles inside the drum. Now I am not sure if the R.P.M rate will be slow and extend the run time needed to accomplish a desired cleaning. I can make an external gear combination to get whatever final drum rate. So my question to anyone that has a working liquid system,what is your approximate drum rotation rate. Thank you to all that may reply...My best wishes to all from Virginia.JoeA my drum speed with my 8" pvc drum is 55-60 rpm and my 6" drum is 70 rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The one I built uses a 100lb bucket (12.2gal) and a 40 rpm gear motor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Vigilante Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Does the interior of the bucket have ribs? That is quite a set-up-congrats. Do you sell brass? Is that why you need a drum with that capacity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) It uses two buckets, the outer "drive" bucket is part of the machine, it's just notched so the inner bucket will nest inside. The inner tumbling bucket has 4, 1.5"x1/2" vanes in it. I made it so large because the process is a lot more involved than dry tumbling. With the final wash after cleaning and drying time, I decided before I started using SS media the batch sizes needed to be at least twice what my big Dillon tumbler would hold for it to be worth the trouble. As you can see a gallon of .223 and a few handfulls of 458 are just a drop in the bucket, to what it can hold. Edited January 10, 2012 by jmorris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropsitos Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Jmorris, Do find that your setup works well for small qtys of brass? Say in the 100-200 pcs of .40 or .223 or even 20-60 pcs of 30-06.? I don't have a lot of brass but the availibilty of the buckets and the resulting design appeals to me. thanks Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tires2burn Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 I like fabricating stuff and when it works its a bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmorris Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Missed rops's post from the '12 thread but if you look in the bucket in post 7 you can see a few 458 socom mixed in with the .223 brass. I built some really big ones a few months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassaholic13 Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 LMAO... Another use for 3-phase and the Automation Direct GS1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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