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tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:38 pm
by Col
Hi guys. today I did myself a favour to save myself time cleaning cases. I bought myself a Lyman tumbler,Following the instructions I placed a hundred .308 cases in the media and allowed it to run for about 2 hours,which left me with time to load a few .44 mag for my 1894 Marlin. The cases were all shining like new,except that the flash hole on every case was blocked with media,,which I had to push out,and so the time I gained was quickly lost. And so I thought,who better to ask for advice on better media than you lot. Any ideas please?
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:42 pm
by Mike357
Ultrasonic cleaning, its the future :-)
No bits, no cleaning crap out holes and does a brilliant job on the insides. Just remember the sunglasses.
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:45 pm
by ovenpaa
They all do that sir! What sort of media are you using?
Apparently stainless steel media is the way to go - quicker, cleaner and no picking it out of the primer pockets, and no I don’t use it yet :(
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:53 pm
by Col
Thanks ovenpaa. I had an idea that the media may be graded finer,thus too small to block the flash hole,Oh well may as well get used to the media I use.Dont know what it is,it was in a bag inside the Lyman tumbler,so possibly something they use in the states.
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:00 pm
by ovenpaa
Probably corncob then. Yes sadly I am yet to find a media that does not bung up the plug hole so to speak. I have an ultrasonic cleaner as well but seldom use it.
I tend to use an old worn out green scotch cloth for the outside of the necks and then tumble them maybe every 5th time.
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:28 pm
by Dave 101
I always tumble as soon as I get home from the range , then full length resize and decap , that way there arent any problems with blocked primer holes .
Dave
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:19 pm
by Alpha1
I tend to tumble and then de cap. I then clean the primer pockets using my case trimmer thingy
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:47 pm
by HeatherW762
A skewer works - and is quite quick.
Heather
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:03 am
by Col
logically I would think to tumble the cases before decapping and sizing etc, but then others say to tumble after sizing etc,to remove the lube. problems ,,problems,, who would be a shooter!
Re: tumbling
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:04 am
by dazeroo
If you only neck size, i.e. no lube issues, tumbling before de-capping is the way to go. imo