Best way to keep stainless steel chips from getting “lost” during the process?

[packetloss]

Use a paint strainer as the first step for emptying out your tumbler. Then go with the usual media separator and magnet.

 

[WeekendReloader]

I checked in tithe BLACKMON set up for turning 22lr cases in to 22 caliber projectiles, it was right around $800. Then your time and you need a mold for the lead incert.
Just for the set up cost I can buy 7,000 pieces of 22 caliber projectiles.
I do have probably a five gallon bucket full of 22 rimfire cases.
Some day maybe when I am totally retired and have extra time to kill I'll jump in.

It certainly is interesting to be able to make your own and be self sufficient. On the other hand, taking that money and laying in a stockpile can serve the same purpose.
I personally think it is neat and see it as extending the hobby, but I will probably never pay up for the tools to do it.

 

[Highland Lofts]

If I had the extra time I'd spring for it, but working full time and raising three grand kids there never seemes to be time for extra reloading stuff.
If I could find a used set of equipment for making these up I'd buy it and sit on it until the extra time comes.

 

[Bayou52]

I simply use a rotary media separator filled with water to separate the pins from the brass. I then pour off the water into a bucket leaving all the pins in the separator base which gets emptied into the tumbler drum for the next batch.

Very few escapee pins…

Bayou52

 

[Skgreen]

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[hk940]

I looked up SS chips as I have not heard of them before today. From the search some looked like turnings from a lathe others looked like little "Orzo" pasta.
Are these actually made for tumbling brass, or they a clever marketing idea to sell something otherwise headed to the scrap bin.
Something like Snyder's pretzel pieces, bagel crisps, or every thing bagels?

 

[packetloss]

I looked up SS chips as I have not heard of them before today. From the search some looked like turnings from a lathe others looked like little "Orzo" pasta.
Are these actually made for tumbling brass, or they a clever marketing idea to sell something otherwise headed to the scrap bin.
Something like Snyder's pretzel pieces, bagel crisps, or every thing bagels?

Look up southern shine media.

 

[Skgreen]

Mine looked like stuff left over after a machine cut something off of stainless. The first thing that came to my mind was nibs sheared off from the drill-tip of a self-drilling metal screw.
Example of screw: https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Washer-Drilling-Screws-Tapping/dp/B076BWD954

410 stainless is magnetic. We also have another stainless fastener at work that is not magnetic, but reportedly it's so hard or brittle or (?) that a drill tip cannot be formed on it (300 stainless, I believe, but don't quote me)

 

[50of4064]

I wet tumble with SS pins...I use a Berry's media separator and don't have much trouble. I pour the tumbler tube, full of brass, pins and water into the center carrier, shut both the half's, and turn the handles...the pins fall to the bottom of the tub, and I fish them out with the magnet on a stick, I purchased from HF. I dry the brass on an electric skillet/ wok contrapshen that you can set the heat in F° so you do not Cook the Brass. It dries the brass in about 15 min..paid $5 at a thrift store ...
and if I get hungry, I can make me a cheese sandwich...lol...

 

[Darth-Vang]

Well, if that were the case for me, I would toss the "so small chips" that go thru the bag as they are not adding any use to the tumbling.
They would be gone after a couple of cycles thru the bags and not be of any further bother.
If all the chips pass thru the bags, switch back to pins.

Any tumble time advantage gained using chips over pins is nothing because tumbling is the unattended part of the process, so why bother with the chips??
jmo,
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No, they come in one size only not mixed with other various sizes or dust like particles etc… It’s more they’re just too small and they pass the mesh. But I think I may come up with an idea of how to separate without losing anything

 

[GoldieMI]

It certainly is interesting to be able to make your own and be self sufficient. On the other hand, taking that money and laying in a stockpile can serve the same purpose.
I personally think it is neat and see it as extending the hobby, but I will probably never pay up for the tools to do it.

and they shoot nicely too