singleshotbuff
11-20-2006, 12:26 AM
Gentlemen,
Tonight I pulled 40 rds of 7.62X54R brass out of my tumbler that I forgot in it for a couple of days. I was tumbling the sizing lube from the cases.
I normally just pick the cases out of the vibrating media and dump the media out of them, then proceed to loading them. However these cases were packed with a VERY fine green/black powder that would not dump out. It also held some of the media inside the cases. Some cases had very little powder/media in them, others were packed 1/2 to 3/4 full.
I wound up taking all the cases to the sink and cleaning them out with running water and a nylon bore brush on a cleaning rod. To say it was tedious would be an understatement.
What do you think caused this? I've never experienced it before. I'm using a Hornady vibratory tumbler and Lyman green media that I get in a jug from Gander Mountain. This batch of media was well used, but no more than other batches I have used. I use my media to clean cases before sizing and then after sizing to remove the case lube (I'm too lazy to wipe the cases).
I'm clueless here. The only thing I can think is that I tumbled a bunch (200-300) old military 223 brass prior to this in order to clean them up for sizing (they were pretty tarnished). Did this "break" the media down? Did it contaminate the media somehow? ANY ideas? I'm stumped, and a little scared by this. If I had loaded these cases (probably couldn't get a full charge of powder in most of them) the results might have been spectacular.
Any thoughts? Similar experiences?
Obviously I am buying new media tomorrow.
SSB
Tonight I pulled 40 rds of 7.62X54R brass out of my tumbler that I forgot in it for a couple of days. I was tumbling the sizing lube from the cases.
I normally just pick the cases out of the vibrating media and dump the media out of them, then proceed to loading them. However these cases were packed with a VERY fine green/black powder that would not dump out. It also held some of the media inside the cases. Some cases had very little powder/media in them, others were packed 1/2 to 3/4 full.
I wound up taking all the cases to the sink and cleaning them out with running water and a nylon bore brush on a cleaning rod. To say it was tedious would be an understatement.
What do you think caused this? I've never experienced it before. I'm using a Hornady vibratory tumbler and Lyman green media that I get in a jug from Gander Mountain. This batch of media was well used, but no more than other batches I have used. I use my media to clean cases before sizing and then after sizing to remove the case lube (I'm too lazy to wipe the cases).
I'm clueless here. The only thing I can think is that I tumbled a bunch (200-300) old military 223 brass prior to this in order to clean them up for sizing (they were pretty tarnished). Did this "break" the media down? Did it contaminate the media somehow? ANY ideas? I'm stumped, and a little scared by this. If I had loaded these cases (probably couldn't get a full charge of powder in most of them) the results might have been spectacular.
Any thoughts? Similar experiences?
Obviously I am buying new media tomorrow.
SSB