I have 2 Frankford dry tumblers because I shoot a lot I have one filled with walnut shell for cleaning and another one with corn cob for polishing and they work good, but thought I would try the wet tumbling just to see what I was missing.
It works well and it does clean the inside and I suppose the pocket if you took the time to deprime your brass, truthfully the only advantage I can see about the wet tumbler I bought is you can flat load it up, 30# of brass and liquid and I did that and it cleaned it nice, it's a little more hassle with the pins and rinsing the brass and then drying it, but if you got a lot to do this might be your baby it cleans a lot in a short time, if you don't wanna spend the extra bucks for a wet tumbler and you have some really old dirty stained brass, it's a simple matter of cleaning it like new with walnut shell and glass beads, the kind of media you use in a small sand blaster one cup of that in your walnut media works wonders on old stained brass, don't put too much it tho because it will clean but it will also dull, still have to use corn cob to polish wet or dry.
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It works well and it does clean the inside and I suppose the pocket if you took the time to deprime your brass, truthfully the only advantage I can see about the wet tumbler I bought is you can flat load it up, 30# of brass and liquid and I did that and it cleaned it nice, it's a little more hassle with the pins and rinsing the brass and then drying it, but if you got a lot to do this might be your baby it cleans a lot in a short time, if you don't wanna spend the extra bucks for a wet tumbler and you have some really old dirty stained brass, it's a simple matter of cleaning it like new with walnut shell and glass beads, the kind of media you use in a small sand blaster one cup of that in your walnut media works wonders on old stained brass, don't put too much it tho because it will clean but it will also dull, still have to use corn cob to polish wet or dry.
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