montana_charlie
05-12-2007, 04:56 PM
Do you use a rotary tumbler for cleaning cases?
Ceramic angle-cut cylinders of 5/32" diameter and 5/16" length are the preferred choice of those BPCR shootes who only go 'top drawer'. It has to be the 'hard' kind which polishes, but doesn't 'cut'.
Eight pounds loaded into their Thumbler's Model B with a water-based cleaning solution is considered by most as 'the only suitable way' to get those big cases clean...primer pockets and all.
The retailers who supply that need ask $45 (and up) for the media, and include a bottle of cleaner to be mixed with the water. The cleaner is also sold separately for about $6.
$45 is not too bad if you consider that the stuff will basically last forever, but there are cheaper sources...and I recently found one.
http://www.kingsleynorth.com/skshop/search_results2.php?catID=140
These folks are (apparently) unaware of the gold mine waiting for them among reloaders. They offer the very stuff that works for us, but they are selling it to people who think rocks should be smooth.
An order that includes one of the five pound packages, and three of the one pounders can be had for $28...if price matters to you...and if your tumbler is big enough to need that much.
They also have a TON of other stuff...some of it even useful around guns.
CM
Ceramic angle-cut cylinders of 5/32" diameter and 5/16" length are the preferred choice of those BPCR shootes who only go 'top drawer'. It has to be the 'hard' kind which polishes, but doesn't 'cut'.
Eight pounds loaded into their Thumbler's Model B with a water-based cleaning solution is considered by most as 'the only suitable way' to get those big cases clean...primer pockets and all.
The retailers who supply that need ask $45 (and up) for the media, and include a bottle of cleaner to be mixed with the water. The cleaner is also sold separately for about $6.
$45 is not too bad if you consider that the stuff will basically last forever, but there are cheaper sources...and I recently found one.
http://www.kingsleynorth.com/skshop/search_results2.php?catID=140
These folks are (apparently) unaware of the gold mine waiting for them among reloaders. They offer the very stuff that works for us, but they are selling it to people who think rocks should be smooth.
An order that includes one of the five pound packages, and three of the one pounders can be had for $28...if price matters to you...and if your tumbler is big enough to need that much.
They also have a TON of other stuff...some of it even useful around guns.
CM