My gun club has a lot of grass encroachment into the shooting areas, so super shiny brass is typically easier for me to find. I started wet tumbling a few years ago and that's the only way I'll do it now. I bought a little two barrel tumbler from Harbor Freight. Each barrel will hold about a pound of brass. I tumbled some brass the other day and fit 64 pieces of 7.62 NATO, 46 pieces of 7.62 X 25, and a few pieces of 9mm/.380 Auto into the barrels. The HF tumbler isn't the route to go if you are tumbling large quantities of brass frequently, though. I purchase some steel pins from
BestByte computers. They are .047" in diameter. I have never had any stick in any flash holes, though I did have some stick inside of .30 carbine cases, but that was more a function of their length (.255").
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I rinse them in a colander and quickly put them on a towel. I roll them around in the towel and then transfer them to another towel which usually ends up on top of the dryer. The heat produced while drying clothes will dry the cases fairly quickly. I have lost some pins and, from time to time when I move things around in the garage, will find one or two under whatever I move.
Ed