Cafeoutdoors.com: Wet tumbling brass

I have read about the joys of wet tumbling brass for sometime but was reluctant due to the cost of the equipment and pins. Found a Harbour Freight duel drum rock tumbler that a dude was throwing out. Santa brought me 5 lbs of stainless steel pins from GunTap.

I can only do about 150 pieces of 9mm at a time due to the 3 lbs per drum limitation. Drop in the brass, a pound of pins, hot water, a squirt of Dawn dish soup and a bit of Lemishine. Turn it on and go watch a movie on tv.

2 hours later and damn that chit looks like gold. I knock out the primers first (got one of those Franklin Armory squeezy dealios) while watching more movies in the recliner. Cleans all the crud out of the primer pockets and the inside of the brass so it doesn't gum up the reloading press.

I stole a cullender from the wife (yeah..I got married too) to separate the pins from the brass. That's the biggest pita of the whole deal, but I may invest in a spinning separator and a 5 gallon bucket.

I have two corn cob tumblers that are going to get sold. Wet cleaning is the schizznit.

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