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    Quote Originally Posted by WarEagleEd View Post
    Picked up the Harbor Freight tumbler today!

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    Based on what I have read, I try to put a pound each of ss media, brass, and water in each drum. I add a bit of dish soap and lemi-shine. I have played with the run time, and two hours looks about as good as it gets, even with some very dirty range brass. Then I set it out to dry over night. This is afer a quick run in the walnut and then decap and resize. The run in the walnut is more to protect my dies than anything else. BTW, I go my media at midway, but at only using two pounds, I think I would have been better off to use the link that gandog had for a two pound pack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jebsca View Post
    Based on what I have read, I try to put a pound each of ss media, brass, and water in each drum.
    This is what I read elsewhere, too.

    gandog, do you use any Dawn dish detergent or just water and Lemi-Shine?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jebsca View Post
    Based on what I have read, I try to put a pound each of ss media, brass, and water in each drum. I add a bit of dish soap and lemi-shine. I have played with the run time, and two hours looks about as good as it gets, even with some very dirty range brass. Then I set it out to dry over night. This is afer a quick run in the walnut and then decap and resize. The run in the walnut is more to protect my dies than anything else. BTW, I go my media at midway, but at only using two pounds, I think I would have been better off to use the link that gandog had for a two pound pack.

    Whoa, I decap FIRST, then run through the rotary. I like the nice shiny non sooty primer pockets. I decap the dirty brass with a Lee universal decapping die so I don't scratch up my sizing dies.

    I have the Thumler's B model with a 15 pound drum, so I use 5 pounds of media, 5 pounds of brass, and a gallon of water. 1/2 tablespoon of Lemi-shine and a squirt of Dawn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gandog56 View Post
    Whoa, I decap FIRST, then run through the rotary. I like the nice shiny non sooty primer pockets. I decap the dirty brass with a Lee universal decapping die so I don't scratch up my sizing dies.

    I have the Thumler's B model with a 15 pound drum, so I use 5 pounds of media, 5 pounds of brass, and a gallon of water. 1/2 tablespoon of Lemi-shine and a squirt of Dawn.
    For if I ever get a rotary tumbler, can you effectively run smaller loads through it if you want to?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mbaker78 View Post
    For if I ever get a rotary tumbler, can you effectively run smaller loads through it if you want to?
    Looks good to me. I have ran just a few with good results. May have to try just one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gandog56 View Post
    Whoa, I decap FIRST, then run through the rotary. I like the nice shiny non sooty primer pockets. I decap the dirty brass with a Lee universal decapping die so I don't scratch up my sizing dies.
    I just toss them into the walnut media for a bit, resize, then into the ss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jebsca View Post
    I just toss them into the walnut media for a bit, resize, then into the ss.
    I never used walnut. Corncob got them so much shinier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gandog56 View Post
    I never used walnut. Corncob got them so much shinier.
    When I was first getting set up, the store had walnut, so I got that. Never tried the corn cob.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jebsca View Post
    Based on what I have read, I try to put a pound each of ss media, brass, and water in each drum. I add a bit of dish soap and lemi-shine. I have played with the run time, and two hours looks about as good as it gets, even with some very dirty range brass. Then I set it out to dry over night. This is afer a quick run in the walnut and then decap and resize. The run in the walnut is more to protect my dies than anything else. BTW, I go my media at midway, but at only using two pounds, I think I would have been better off to use the link that gandog had for a two pound pack.
    What do you mean by this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZmanWakeForest View Post
    What do you mean by this?
    Probably to get any grit off of the cases so they don't score up the dies... I have a universal depriming die that I use before they even go into the tumbler instead of using the sizing die though.

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    Yeah, that's why I use a universal depriming die. The sides of the dirty cases do not rub against the inside of the die. But it sounds like jebsca deprimes AFTER he cleans them. I want them primer pockets squeaky, shiny clean. So they get deprimed, then cleaned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZmanWakeForest View Post
    What do you mean by this?
    As they pointed out, it is just to get dirt and stuff off the brass to help protect the dies. Other use a universal decapping die first, but I do not have one, so into the walnut first, resize and then into the ss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jebsca View Post
    Based on what I have read, I try to put a pound each of ss media, brass, and water in each drum. I add a bit of dish soap and lemi-shine. I have played with the run time, and two hours looks about as good as it gets, even with some very dirty range brass. Then I set it out to dry over night. This is afer a quick run in the walnut and then decap and resize. The run in the walnut is more to protect my dies than anything else. BTW, I go my media at midway, but at only using two pounds, I think I would have been better off to use the link that gandog had for a two pound pack.

    I have a BIG drum. Holds 5 pounds of stainless steel media.

    Nyah nyah, mine is bigger than yours!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gandog56 View Post
    Nyah nyah, mine is bigger than yours!
    Wish I could say this is the first time someone has told me this. But, at 6' 1 and 250, people love to point out when theirs is bigger than mine.

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