Just ordered this last night. Quick n easy case tumbler from Amazon $35.99 with free super saver shipping!
http://www.amazon.com/Frankford-****...9034888&sr=8-2
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Just ordered this last night. Quick n easy case tumbler from Amazon $35.99 with free super saver shipping!
http://www.amazon.com/Frankford-****...9034888&sr=8-2
Do yourself a favor and order some good media and get some NuFinish car wax.
http://www.drillspot.com/products/52...bs_blast_media
I see "NuFinish" mentioned in many of the threads regarding brass tumbling. What does the NuFinish car wax do? Does it speed up the process or just make the brass look better or shinier? When I want bright and shiny brass, I've used jeweler's rouge. The rouge makes the brass look brand new or like highly polished gold but takes more time in the tumbler. An acquaintance that sells brass at gunshows uses the rouge claiming he can get a better price for his used brass.
It makes the brass shinnier and keeps the dust down a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by azrednek
it also has wax in it that imparts a little protection IMHO at least , that rouge alone doesnt
I have a Frankford tumbler and a Cabella's and while I like them they had a glitch that I just had to mess with, I do that kind of thing. I had a Lyman for years and it had a raised area in the center that seemed to aggitate the brass and media where as the Frankford and Cabella's models just rotated the media and brass around the bowl like a merry go round.
I took a two dollar 1/2 pint funnel from wally world and trimmed the edge that you pour into and shortened the spout end about 3/4 inch. I then took a nozzle from a tube of permatex type sealer and cut the hole big enough to slide over the threaded rod for the lid, shoved it in the funnel to keep it centered, added a flat washer and a nut to hold it down.
Now the brass and media churns top to bottom as it goes around the bowl, kind of like a washing machine or the old Lyman Turbo. I put a clothes pin in there so you could get an idea of the size of the funnel.
Always gotta be messin with somethin. [smilie=l:
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Lead-1,
That's a slick little improvement to that tumbler.
azredneck,
Nu Finish car polish does a couple of things. But the main thing it does is make pistol brass slicker so it will run through a progressive much smoother. After that, everything else it does is gravy. Since it's one of the least expensive car polishes and you can get it at Wal Mart and the Dollar Store, it's an ideal choice for brass polish. One other positive benefit is you get a lot more of it than you do buying stuff with "brass polish" on the label.
Other positive things about t it: Makes the brass and tumbler media smell much better. Keeps the dust down. Shines the brass up nicely. Is available at local stores, so when you run out, you can have the wife pick another bottle up when she's shopping at Wally World, rather than having to order it from Midwayusa. You can use it to wax your car, two coats does a good job and lasts a good long time. Doesn't take much in your tumbler to shine your brass.
Get media from DrillSpot, cheap and free shipping.
Since nobody else has said it yet, throw in a used dryer sheet to catch a whole bunch of the dust and soot. That funnel upgrade is genius. That's such a good deal that I'm trying hard not to buy an extra tumbler.
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Originally Posted by lead-1
Does this mod reduce the time it takes to clean the brass or does it allow the tumbler to do an overall better job?
Improvise, adapt, overcome !!! Works every time
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Originally Posted by UNIQUEDOT
I actually think it does speed up the process by close to 1/2 the time because the brass goes in two different directions now. IE, I know for a fact that the time it took me to rid the brass case lube is at least cut in half, the brass now not only rides in a circle around the bowl but now it churns top to bottom also.
lead-1 you have my
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But what is the clothes peg for?
In post six he said it was for scale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken Thief
As UNIQUEDOT said, I put it in there so you could tell how big the funnel actually is, just a little 1/2 pinter.