An alternative 2-step method for wet tumbling your brass in the Frankford Arsenal Wet Tumbler!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2021
- In this video, I show you an alternative 2-step method for wet tumbling your brass in the Frankford Arsenal Wet Tumbler!
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I used to use Dawn soap and lemi shine but I substituted the Dawn for Meguire's Wash and Wax Car soap. It seems to work equivalently to the Dawn soap but the wax helps me preserve the color on my brass when I'm storing cases away for more than a year's time.
Wet tumbling with pins is the way to go!
Very pretty…nicely done!!!
I like the paint strainer bag trick for the first wash instead of dumping it all in the pin separator. I ran mine with pins , dawn, lemishine,for half an hour which cleaned most of the crud, dumped/rinsed, then reload tumbler with pins, dawn, lemishine for one hour and they came out perfectly clean. For those that don’t know lemishine reduces/eliminates water spotting when drying the cases. That’s all it’s in there for.
Frankfort arms now make a screen filter for the end caps to trap the pins which does work well. Still need to separate the pins from the brass, I usually use my old media separate and water in the bottom, which separates well. Then I place them a food dehydrator (didn’t have specific dryers at time) which drys them in about an hour and a few more pins will be on the bottom. The magnet pin pickup tool does come in handy for those small pins. Wet tumbling does them get them very clean and shiny.
I have the screens, I got them after I did these videos.
I stopped using pins long ago. just Lemi Shine and Dawn for 2 hours and all is clean.
I clean the primer pockets with a tool made for that purpose and it works fine.
Omg so shiny
I would say that the pins are the way to go. I just purchased this tumbler from Opticsplanet and can't wait to try it out. I hope I get the same results with my 30-06 brass.
3D Texan if you follow the method that I laid out in the video, you will definitely get these results! I just did some .47-70 brass 2 days ago and it came out incredible, as always. Just do not use more than 1/4 teaspoon of lemishine. In this case, more is not better.
I tumble no pins, lube, decap/resize and trim, tumble with pins, reload.
the pins peen your chamfer over and bullet seating becomes sub par
I use Lemi-Shine and Cascade Platinum Plus dishwasher Pods.
here in the UK we cant get lemmi shine or this dawn lol I just use a dishwashing Tablet all sorted it works very well
Here in the US “Dawn”, is probably the most common dish washing soap you can find.
Lemishine is just Citric Acid. You should be able to find that over there.
@@catfish307 I've just used a dishwasher tablet and that works fine so that's me sorted thanks
I also this tumbler, but always with pins and Frankfort Arsenal cleaning pods. I wonder what kind of "stuff" that dirty water is. I'm somewhat reluctant to dump it into my septic system, but letting it run down my driveway doesn't sound a ton better, either.
It’s lead, powder fouling, carbon fouling, bits of copper, brass and other asst. chemical compounds released when the powder ignites!
old video, but im new to wet tumbling. Why not just start with pins, and do a water change half way through?
Because the pins are a pain in the ass to deal with. You need to get them all out, use a magnet etc. This video was just an alternative method to doing it the normal way that I showed in my other video. Just showing choices and options!
do all 4 wheels spin thru the motor or only the front 2?
@andrewmontreal The motor drives only the front wheels.
@@Skeetersbuzz thanks,,
@@andrewmontreal you are very welcome, my friend! Thank you for watching, commenting and (hopefully) subscribing!
How many lbs of pins for 500 cases ? Ty
I use 10 pounds but you can probably get away with 5 pounds.
I use 2 1/2 lbs for whatever gets put in the tumbler. I doubt you'd be able to really get in more than 500 of anything, and FA says for best results load with at least 150.
What is the purpose of cleaning it before cleaning it? I do it once with the pins and it comes out just as clean and shiny as this wasted 2 step process. The proof is in how dirty the water is even after pre cleaning it. Once and done shines like new.
It just gets the loose dirt and grime off of it. The title of the video is: an alternative 2 step process. The purpose was just to show another way of doing it. YMMV!
One problem with wet tumbling I found, if you tumble two different calibers together, one slightly smaller than the other, the smaller one will get stuck in the larger one.
You should never tumble different calibers together……either dry or wet!
I use a mess bag to separate two types of brass.
I use vinegar and car soap with wax and no media and it only takes an hour per batch.
I have never heard of using vinegar……….what ratio do you use?
@@Skeetersbuzz Just a cup per batch.
Moderate amount of soap as directed.@@Skeetersbuzz
Why did u not show the brass bfor u started ?
Never even thought about doing that BUT, it was all fired and very dirty. You can see how much dirt came out of the brass when I dumped the water. I figured everyone knows what dirty brass looks like. 🤷🏻♂️
Who doesn’t like shiny things?… but…
Dry corn cob vibratory tumbling is waaay less work.
It is BUT, the results are not the same!