yhtomit
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At 3:46 (I checked 
) I turned on the tumbler (purchased yesterday); the first batch it's cleaning up is about 200 45ACP cases -- some of the once-fired brass that a fellow THR reader kindly sent to me, and which will become the honorary 1st through the system
This sure is a noisy device! I guess I should have anticipated that, given its nature as a bowl-with-a-motor, but that's how it goes When I'm rich and / or famous, I'll get an ultrasonic doohickey, and trained pets to operate it.
Thanks to the advice from others on this board, I bought a biggish bag of corncob bedding as cleaning media; nowhere local seems to have walnut bedding at reasonable prices; the local farm supply store has cedar, and pine, and some varieties of bedding, but neither walnut nor corncob (and I wasn't sure whether there were any smart substitutes; in retrospect, the stuff they had for rabbits would probably have been good, but until getting the corn, I was even more clueless than I presently am wrt proper texture, etc.); the nearest pet superstore I know of (the only pet store at all, in fact) had corncob (that's where I bought mine), but the manager said the walnut kind never sold, so they stopped carrying it.
(I did stop in Gander Mountain between the farm store and pet store; they did have walnut, but at 16 or more dollars for a smallish box, which I decided to skip.)
In a little while, I'll actually have clean cases, for the next phase of the project
timothy
) I turned on the tumbler (purchased yesterday); the first batch it's cleaning up is about 200 45ACP cases -- some of the once-fired brass that a fellow THR reader kindly sent to me, and which will become the honorary 1st through the system This sure is a noisy device! I guess I should have anticipated that, given its nature as a bowl-with-a-motor, but that's how it goes
When I'm rich and / or famous, I'll get an ultrasonic doohickey, and trained pets to operate it.Thanks to the advice from others on this board, I bought a biggish bag of corncob bedding as cleaning media; nowhere local seems to have walnut bedding at reasonable prices; the local farm supply store has cedar, and pine, and some varieties of bedding, but neither walnut nor corncob (and I wasn't sure whether there were any smart substitutes; in retrospect, the stuff they had for rabbits would probably have been good, but until getting the corn, I was even more clueless than I presently am wrt proper texture, etc.); the nearest pet superstore I know of (the only pet store at all, in fact) had corncob (that's where I bought mine), but the manager said the walnut kind never sold, so they stopped carrying it.
(I did stop in Gander Mountain between the farm store and pet store; they did have walnut, but at 16 or more dollars for a smallish box, which I decided to skip.)
In a little while, I'll actually have clean cases, for the next phase of the project
timothy
