Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

[Kenny Marhoffer]

[email:http://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/tumbling-media/stainless-steel-shot.htm]http://www.kramerindustriesonline.com/tumbling-media/stainless-steel-shot.htm[/email]

Hey, Ive been trying to get all my supplies for reloading and I am new to this. I have read from some posts on here about stainless media in the Thumblers Tumbler. It looks awsome, especially the before and after pictures. I want to know if anyone has read about or tried using stainless media in a vibratory tumbler. I know that the stuff that Stainless Media Products sells is for the tumbler they sell. But will using the regular media like walnut or corn mixed with steel shot media (like whats in the link above) would work? Seems like it would but you would have to make a sifter out of dense mesh that would hold the regular media and let the steel shot fall out. What do you guys think about this?

[http://shorinternational.com/Tumblers. (have to copy and past to bar, sorry)

I just found this too, the tumblers are for steel media and Cheap! Scroll to the bottom of the link above and see what you think.

 

[Skg_Mre_Lght]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

I just can't wrap my head around how stainless steel media isn't peening and work hardening the brass to some degree.

 

[vman]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

Support the hide members

http://www.stainlesstumblingmedia.com/

And besides their prices are very very good.

 

[schwim]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

Kramerica industries, they sell balls filled with oil, lol?

 

[Kenny Marhoffer]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

I realized that the steel media mixed with regular would not work. Steel would go to bottom and regular float on top. Tumbler I see is a 3 pound cap. 3 pound steel media, I could clean like 10- .308 cases in it per time (that would really suck). Yes, Vman the Stainless Tumbling media with the thumlers tumbler is the best. I after the 1st will purchse this unit and tell all with photos how bad a$$ it is.

SKG MRE for a note, work hardening is done with heat. You would have to squeeze, bend, draw or shear the metal to cause this.
Also, the peening process that your talking about is Shot Peening and that is at very hight FPS blasts. Yes, I know the tumbler has a 1300 RPM motor, but its not impacting in the way blast peening would. I don't know, just my guess on the peening. Who cares look at how the brass comes out, I can handle some peeining. Later, I have to go peen.

 

[427Cobra]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skg_Mre_Lght</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I just can't wrap my head around how stainless steel media isn't peening and work hardening the brass to some degree. </div></div>

SS does peen the lip of the necks, almost removing the chamfer, but I checked some brass before and after cleaning with a calibrated Rockwell hardness tester, SS media cleaning(at least the way I do it) does not work harden brass to any measurable degree.

 

[Skg_Mre_Lght]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

Surveyor and SuperSnake, thats for the info. I think I will give this a shot. I hate trimming, tumbling and removing primer crimps almost equally, so it would be nice to cut down on the effort I put into any of those.

 

[heydavemd]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

Thanks for the website vman. I've ben trying to figure out the best way to get the media and tumbler, and help the site out. Just ordered mine.

 

[kombayotch]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427Cobra</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skg_Mre_Lght</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I just can't wrap my head around how stainless steel media isn't peening and work hardening the brass to some degree. </div></div>

SS does peen the lip of the necks, almost removing the chamfer, but I checked some brass before and after cleaning with a calibrated Rockwell hardness tester, SS media cleaning(at least the way I do it) does not work harden brass to any measurable degree. </div></div>

Yes it does! I never have to trim my brass anymore because of this, in fact the Giraud doesn't even touch the lip on some older cases. I haven't seen any hardening issues.

However, the burr can cause pressure spikes in tighter chambers if not fully removed. Stardard chamfer/de-burr tools don't fully remove it. I use the K&M chamfer tool on the inside of the neck and a tool I made similar to a neck turner to remove it on the outside.

Still liking the overall benefits of SS tumbling in spite of this though...

 

[Muttt]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

Yeah, but how much is the media. I couldn't find a price at all.

 

[SPAK]

Re: Check This Out!!! Will This Work? Stainless Media

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kombayotch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427Cobra</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skg_Mre_Lght</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I just can't wrap my head around how stainless steel media isn't peening and work hardening the brass to some degree. </div></div>

SS does peen the lip of the necks, almost removing the chamfer, but I checked some brass before and after cleaning with a calibrated Rockwell hardness tester, SS media cleaning(at least the way I do it) does not work harden brass to any measurable degree. </div></div>

Yes it does! I never have to trim my brass anymore because of this, in fact the Giraud doesn't even touch the lip on some older cases. I haven't seen any hardening issues.

However, the burr can cause pressure spikes in tighter chambers if not fully removed. Stardard chamfer/de-burr tools don't fully remove it. I use the K&M chamfer tool on the inside of the neck and a tool I made similar to a neck turner to remove it on the outside.

Still liking the overall benefits of SS tumbling in spite of this though... </div></div>

Hey Greg, would steel wool take off the edge on the outside??