wild idea

[stoney1666]

use .22 brass as a tumbling media instead of pins, would it work or forgot it?

 

[bullseye308]

I wouldn’t think it would do much, if any good. You won’t get any stuck in the flash holes tho. Many things have been tried, stainless steel pins just work so much better and sized correctly won’t get stuck.

 

[mkl]

I doubt if it would clean the primer pockets. Also, when five or six of the .22 rimfire cases get inside of a .223 case or similar, you will have a devil of a time getting them out. .45-70 okay to get cases out, but still no primer pocket clean.

 

[Mark_Mark]

use .22 brass as a tumbling media instead of pins, would it work or forgot it?

I tried that and it got stuck all over my sifter, then random super shine .22 brass all over my driveway

 

[Highland Lofts]

Spent primerswould probably work on the cases but not in the primer pockets and they also would not be be able to be picked up by a magnet if they get dropped on the floor or any place else.
I personally like & use stainless steel pins.
I have the bigger double capped Frankford Arsenal Rotery Tumbler and have been tumbling over 1,000 - 40cal per load twice a day for a couple of days and will switch over either 9mm or 233 tomorrow for a couple of days then back to 40 caliber again. Last week I tumbled a few thousand 45acp.

I have two of the bigger Frankford rotary tumblers one is set up to use with the pins and the other one I use with out pins. Probably next month I'll buy the small single cap Frankford Rotary tumbler for smaller loads of brass.

Last year I bought a extra bag of stainless steel pins and still haven't opened it yet plus I have the bag that came with my 2nd Rotery Tumbler.

Once I started useing the wet method I retired my two dry tumblers. It is more work; but a 100% better then dry tumbleing in my opinion.

 

[dcarr]

i went from dry tumbling to ultrasonic cleaning and have not looked back. Maybe once a year i fire up the dry tumble with walnut to shine them up a bit. Do not miss breathing in the dust or listening to the racket.

 

[Mark_Mark]

i went from dry tumbling to ultrasonic cleaning and have not looked back. Maybe once a year i fire up the dry tumble with walnut to shine them up a bit. Do not miss breathing in the dust or listening to the racket.

boo hoo! I put my dry tumbler outside with a Amazon box over it!

 

[jmorris]

They make better bullet jackets.

 

[Highland Lofts]

They make better bullet jackets.

I buy & sell alot of range brass and have probably three to four gallons of mostly 22lr cases and a small amount of 22mag cases and can't find any cash interest in them for $2 a pound.

If I had the time & extra money I'd buy the equipment to make 22 projectiles out of them and projectiles out of the buckets of 40 caliber brass I have stocked up.

 

[AJC1]

I buy & sell alot of range brass and have probably three to four gallons of mostly 22lr cases and a small amount of 22mag cases and can't find any cash interest in them for $2 a pound.

If I had the time & extra money I'd buy the equipment to make 22 projectiles out of them and projectiles out of the buckets of 40 caliber brass I have stocked up.

I had the same idea until I saw the cost for entry, and the limitation of around 62 grain bullets. I shoot 75 and 80s most but even a 69 would work.

 

[AK Hunter]

I would say forget it, because the .22 cases get stuck inside everything. I broke a depriming pin trying to deprime a .300 blackout case because it had a .22lr case inside.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I would say forget it, because the .22 cases get stuck inside everything. I broke a depriming pin trying to deprime a .300 blackout case because it had a .22lr case inside.

I had a .22 case stuck in a good brass too, forgot the case but I was doing a junk pickup tumble, it had some .22 too.

 

[FROGO207]

The local scrap yard is buying cartridge brass for about $2 a pound recently.a few years ago I turned in a 30 gallon can of .22 brass from the local range I am amember at and got almost $425 for the lot. That was 6 five gal buckets full to the top.

 

[Highland Lofts]

I have had cases stuck in other cases when tumbled together. Some were stuck so had I tossed both cases in to the scrap bucket.

Every once in a while when I buy buckets of range brass and they are really nasty - dirty I'll wet tumble it all together with no pins to get it clean enough to handle. I get some cases stuck inside of others but they generally come apart.
When useing media they sometimes get so jammed up they are trash.
With wet tumbleing the dirty cases all the dirt & crude go down the drain.
With dry tumbleing all the dirt & crude stays in the dry media.
I retired my dry tumblers.

 

[Mark_Mark]

The local scrap yard is buying cartridge brass for about $2 a pound recently.a few years ago I turned in a 30 gallon can of .22 brass from the local range I am amember at and got almost $425 for the lot. That was 6 five gal buckets full to the top.

have you seen the price of brass lately? your 30 gallon is probably worth $1500 now! or a 2 750XL’s

 

[stoney1666]

well i said it was a wild idea that i will now drop, thanks.

 

[Mark_Mark]

well i said it was a wild idea that i will now drop, thanks.

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