yankytrash
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Maybe there's a thread poking around here about mid-size case cleaners, but my search terms came up nil. Anyhoo....
I need a bigger case cleaner. Although I don't reload as much as I'd like to say I do, I do clean brass often. I'm currently using the vibratory 1gal cleaner I've had since I was young, and it's time for an upgrade.
I'm cleaning mostly 45ACP and 308, using dry media. I want to go a lot bigger than what I have now. Currently, I can only effectively clean about 75rd of 308 (pushin it), and I see these new tumblers go up to about 2 gallon capacity (300rd 308 pushin it, maybe?) I hear the big boys use cement mixers, which I do have a 120v 3yd mixer. However, I want to go mid-way between there, maybe just get up to 5gal capacity if possible, even if that means making my own tumbler. Basically, I want a big tumbler, but I don't want it so big that have to clean brass outside. After all, reloadin is my bad weather gig.
Got a few questions:
Having never used nor seen one in action, how's a tumbler work, specifically? Does it only tumble concentrically (sp?), or is there a vibrating or oscillating action too? Reason I ask is because if the big boys are using cement mixers, which do not vibrate or oscillate, maybe tumblers work similarly?
If I'm forced to make a 5-6gal bucket rig (which would seem to be easy enough in theory), what rpm should I shoot for? If it makes a difference, I'd be making a sideways tumbler, like RCBS's "Sidewinder".
Any and all advice/theories/crackpot schemes welcome.
Oh, and we should all be so lucky as to have a need to clean 500rd of 308 a week.
I need a bigger case cleaner. Although I don't reload as much as I'd like to say I do, I do clean brass often. I'm currently using the vibratory 1gal cleaner I've had since I was young, and it's time for an upgrade.
I'm cleaning mostly 45ACP and 308, using dry media. I want to go a lot bigger than what I have now. Currently, I can only effectively clean about 75rd of 308 (pushin it), and I see these new tumblers go up to about 2 gallon capacity (300rd 308 pushin it, maybe?) I hear the big boys use cement mixers, which I do have a 120v 3yd mixer. However, I want to go mid-way between there, maybe just get up to 5gal capacity if possible, even if that means making my own tumbler. Basically, I want a big tumbler, but I don't want it so big that have to clean brass outside. After all, reloadin is my bad weather gig.
Got a few questions:
Having never used nor seen one in action, how's a tumbler work, specifically? Does it only tumble concentrically (sp?), or is there a vibrating or oscillating action too? Reason I ask is because if the big boys are using cement mixers, which do not vibrate or oscillate, maybe tumblers work similarly?
If I'm forced to make a 5-6gal bucket rig (which would seem to be easy enough in theory), what rpm should I shoot for? If it makes a difference, I'd be making a sideways tumbler, like RCBS's "Sidewinder".
Any and all advice/theories/crackpot schemes welcome.
Oh, and we should all be so lucky as to have a need to clean 500rd of 308 a week.