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brigettecuneo
You have a good style in the way you put your videos together. I do enjoy them and also learn something every time.
i still use the old tumbler and walnut/corn media, but have wanted to switch over for sometime.
An old timer taught me many years ago to clean most of the dirt and grime off to soak in a large bucket with soapy water. Swirl it around for a for a good bit, then either air dry them on a rack outside or in the oven on a metal sheet.
Once they are dry, then I drop them into the tumbler with a few squirts of turtle wax, or similar secret sauce.
Not a new technique as I’m sure some still go this route. the brass are shiny, but no where near as nice as what your producing.
Well done.Anonymous
I went to the stainless media 3 or 4 years ago. For a long time I worried about rattling stainless steel pins down my rifle bores. I still worry now that I think about it. My stainless media separator is the same as yours but Cabelas green instead of Lyman orange. I’m not all that impressed with it. Its sort of rinky dink. That and my 17/22 Hornet brass falls thru the slots and gets hand separated anyways. My stainless pin wedge in 25 caliber case necks. This is the only caliber where that happens though. I use my closed auto to dry brass just park in the sun and in a couple of hours its dry. I also use a paint straining bag (a fine mesh bag that fits a 5 gallon bucket cost $2) and my old solid media separator to get out most of the pins. My solid media separator is sort of an old prospector mining pan but with slots so the media falls thru. I do this over a 5 gallon bucket with the paint straining bag in place and when I’m done just lift out the bag and pins no muss no fuss. If anyone has a better way of separating out the pins I sure would like to hear about it. Nice video though.
AlvinYork
Full.Lead.Taco
I’ve got 75 pounds of media and I usually toss in around 5 pounds of brass. I do it in two cycles. The first is a cleaning/rinsing where I put in dish detergent, rubbing alcohol, ammonia (not too much or the brass gets a dark greenish look) and TSP. Run that about an hour and drain. The rinsing is done until the water drains out clear : refill with hot water, run a minute or two then drain, repeating as necessary until the water is clear. Then I have the polishing cycle. Hot water and about a pound of citric acid and let that spin two or three hours. It kinda makes a racket but I only do it during the day. My neighbor on my west side came over and asked me what I was mixing, but no complaints.
To get the brass out I line a large tub with window screening and scoop out the media/brass into a fish fry sieve that I added a few more holes to speed up the removal of the media. Shake the sieve a few times and you’ve got what looks like gold! The screening is nice because you can gather it up and empty it into the cement mixer (without the water) when you’re done.
brigettecuneo
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