Onepocket Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Anyone have one of these. I would like to find out how good these are before drooping that much cash for a tumbler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassaholic13 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_42/344986_How_i_built_my_own_rotary_tumbler.html 57 pages worth of posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsons1480 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I REALLY liked mine, but I sold it because I didn't have space for it any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aircooled6racer Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Hello: Why not just buy a cement mixer from Harbour Freight? Make a cover for the opening and see what angle mixes the brass the best. This will be my next tumbler once one of my Dillon tumblers dies. It may take years. Thanks, Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassaholic13 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Cement mixer won't work with stainless pins... Been tried over and over. The stainless pins are heavier and gravitate toward the bottom of the mixer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 If you are not too particular about the inside of the case appearing to be of jewelry appearance you can just use the mixer with the Dawn and Lemishine - without pins - and the exterior of the cases will shine right up. Interior will be clean but still powder/primer stained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDA Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Cement mixer won't work with stainless pins... Been tried over and over. The stainless pins are heavier and gravitate toward the bottom of the mixer. It has? I thought it worked, what makes the drum of a cement mixer so much different than all the other drums out there that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraj Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I used the page over at ar15 to make my own. works great, a lot of people have made one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassaholic13 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Cement mixer won't work with stainless pins... Been tried over and over. The stainless pins are heavier and gravitate toward the bottom of the mixer. It has? I thought it worked, what makes the drum of a cement mixer so much different than all the other drums out there that work? A cement mixer sits at a 45 degree angle. You could run just the brass with water, Dawn, and Lemishine, but without the pins, it's not going to come out as nice. For further reading from 2 yrs ago. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_42/368694_Tumble_brass_in_a_cement_mixer.html Edited October 23, 2014 by Brassaholic13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDA Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Cement mixer won't work with stainless pins... Been tried over and over. The stainless pins are heavier and gravitate toward the bottom of the mixer. It has? I thought it worked, what makes the drum of a cement mixer so much different than all the other drums out there that work? A cement mixer sits at a 45 degree angle. You could run just the brass with water, Dawn, and Lemishine, but without the pins, it's not going to come out as nice. For further reading from 2 yrs ago. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_42/368694_Tumble_brass_in_a_cement_mixer.html Did you read that thread? I thought you were going to provide a link proving using a mixer wouldn't work, I see many in that thread proving that it does work, certainly more proving it does work than it doesn't (if you have half a clue what you are doing). SS pins aren't somehow more capable of "gravitating to the bottom of the mixer" than they are a regular tumbler. What matters is getting the right ratio of water, pins, detergent, citric acid and brass combined with agitated tumbling. Obviously a mixer that is set-up to just spin the drum on end, isn't going to work nearly as well as one that rotates the barrell more on its side (in a tumbling action). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaskillo Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) It works 100% Only down side is capacity..... if you are thinking high volume. Edited December 21, 2014 by Kaskillo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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