So some back story here, i acquired 10,000 223 cases for a amazing price from a gunshop I frequent. The brass is all once fired crimped lake city brass.
I have a Lyman cyclone and national brand wet tumbler which both run walnut as media, my tumble time is 5 hours and I seem to get wonderful shinny brass BUT that is for 1000 pieces at a time. So it's a major time commitment, not that my time is all that valuable I just want to be done lol.
I am cleaning the brass, lubing the brass, processing it through my Dillon rl1000 with trimmer and primer pocket swagger, and before loading I will tumble to take away the lanolin case lube.
So in theory it will be 100 hours of tumbling total
I bought a broken plastic tub concrete mixer for 20 dollars and I am looking at various ways of powering it so I can tumble 10,000 cases at once
What stands out to be as the cheapest power unit would be a 3/4 inch drill from harbor freight.
Dose anyone have experience with using a drill in a application where continuous run time is required for 5 hours or less at a time?