Lyman Auto-Flo tumbler - what a crappy STUPID design!!!
Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of most Lyman products, and this tumbler works just fine as a tumbler. It is the insidiously STUPID Auto-Flo feature that I'm yelling about.
First of all, the dump port does not stick out from the tumbler base at all, so what media does come out will go all over the bench, floor, or wherever. The only solution to this is to hold the plastic pan right up under the port at an angle to try to catch as much of it as you can. Secondly, you STILL need a normal media separator because after all the loose media is shaken out all over your room, most of the cases will still be filled with media, so you paid extra for that stupid horrible design that does nothing positive for you. Thirdly, you do not even have a choice to NOT use that stupid thing because the main bowl has large slots in it, so if you want to just pick up the bowl and dump the whole thing in your normal media separator, you cannot do it without picking up the whole tumbler!
Solution? I finally just covered the slots with aluminum tape from the bottom, then filled the cavities above the tape with hot-melt glue to make it a solid bowl - now I can just dump it like normal. But every time I look at that stupid thing I get angry about being duped and ripped off by an otherwise excellent company.