Tumbling large amounts of brass

[stick]

On 6/19/2019 at 2:33 PM, rancher5 said:

Great Idea, anybody using a cement mixer.?

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This guy does!

 

[Dirtchevy841]

8 hours ago, Gomar83 said:

When tumbling the larger amounts of brass is better to dry tumble or wet tumble? If wet tumbling is better then where would be a good source for getting stainless steel pins?

They have a guy on eBay that sells pins at a very good price. I think I paid $10 per 5lb bag of pins and it was free shipping. Maybe cheaper than that. It was way less than others selling the same pins. 

[m700]

Wet will always be shinier. and it will always be debated whether shiny is necessary. I like Shiny

 

How many pins are we talking? you can get away with 1 lb of pins to 1 lb of brass but your better off with a little extra on the pins say 5lbs to 4 lbs

 

https://shop.guntap.com/stainless-steel-tumbling-pins-media-0-255-x-0-047/

these guys seem to be cheep but Ive never used em

[Yondering]

On 8/20/2019 at 8:07 PM, Gomar83 said:

When tumbling the larger amounts of brass is better to dry tumble or wet tumble? If wet tumbling is better then where would be a good source for getting stainless steel pins?

 

Easiest would be Brass Juice with no pins. You can even just soak the brass in a bucket if you don't have a large enough tumbler. I do 3,000-5,000 cases at a time in a 2.5 gal bucket this way normally, but it would be easy to scale up to a 5 gal bucket for larger quantities. I was using a citric acid soak but recently switched to Brass Juice, it does the same job but better. 

[Gomar83]

So how does the Brass Juice work? Is it a soak and rinse?

[Yondering]

17 minutes ago, Gomar83 said:

So how does the Brass Juice work? Is it a soak and rinse?

Yeah. I think most people are still wet tumbling with it, just without pins, but it does work well to just soak the brass in it without tumbling, it just takes longer. I think I soaked my last batch for about an hour, then rinsed; cases came out shiny and clean. It's pretty simple, and I was very impressed with the results after using a citric acid soak for a number of years. 

 

You can drain off the Brass Juice solution and re-use it too. 

[The Donald]

On 8/22/2019 at 10:24 PM, Gomar83 said:

So how does the Brass Juice work? Is it a soak and rinse?

 

I wet tumble with Brass Juice, no pins. Run my FART 30-40 minutes and brass comes out pretty clean. After resizing I clean off lube in my FART with Blue Coral car wash soap and no pins. Really looks nice after and all the lube is gone.

[Gomar83]

How do the primer pockets look with using the Brass Juice? Will the pockets come clean with the primer in?