What is your post SS tumbling process?

[mzvarner]

I am getting tired of how I manage brass once it is done tumbling. Currently, once it is done I rinse them while they are still in the tumbler to get as much residue and soap bubbles off. Then I transfer a few handfuls at a time to a colander that I drilled some extra holes in. I then mix by hand for a few minutes. Then rinse them under running water, transfer to a towel, repeat until all brass is done.

There has got to be a more efficient process. What am I missing?

 

[GhengisAhn175]

Go to an Asian market and find yourself a plastic sieve like the one pictured.

Go to Walmart and buy a plastic tub.

the sieve should hold brass but let media fall through easily.

Play at dunk tank a few times then transfer brass by the fistful, dumping any excess pins.

 

[delfuego]

I started to chamfer and deburr after ss tumbling. the case mouths get pretty beat up, this helps seating. I also use a hair dryer on the brass in an old towel to quickly dry them. It works if you are in a rush and also removes water spotting.

 

[Yerman]

Get a Lyman Media Separator to get all the pins out. Once all the pins are out, rinse all of them thoroughly at one time in the media separator insert. Place on towel to dry. Simple and fast.

 

[mdmp5]

1. Open the tumbler lid and pour out as much dirty water as possible without spilling media or brass
2. Fill the tumbler with cold water and dump out a little and repeat until the suds are gone
3. Pour the media and brass into a media separator with the bin filled with water
4. Turn the handle to separate the media and brass
5. Take the wet brass and dump it on a towel and give it a quick dry rub
6. Use a strong magnet to pick up any remaining media in the wet brass
7. Place the damp brass in a dryer. I built mine from an ammo can, an axial fan and a lightbulb, but you can use a jerky dryer
8. Anneal your dry brass. You can also anneal straight from the towel but the water sometimes makes the flame orange and makes the color change a bit tougher to see if you are doing it with a blow torch like I do

 

[steve123]

1. Open the tumbler lid and pour out as much dirty water as possible without spilling media or brass
2. Fill the tumbler with cold water and dump out a little and repeat until the suds are gone
3. Pour the media and brass into a media separator with the bin filled with water
4. Turn the handle to separate the media and brass
5. Take the wet brass and dump it on a towel and give it a quick dry rub
6. Use a strong magnet to pick up any remaining media in the wet brass
7. Place the damp brass in a dryer. I built mine from an ammo can, an axial fan and a lightbulb, but you can use a jerky dryer
8. Anneal your dry brass. You can also anneal straight from the towel but the water sometimes makes the flame orange and makes the color change a bit tougher to see if you are doing it with a blow torch like I do

Pretty much my process except I use our convection oven at 170 for a half hour so the cases are dry, then into the Bench source annealer. #3 is the best way I've found to get the pins out of the brass vs other methods, it's the water that removes the surface tension holding the pins to the brass, and the tumbling action takes pins out much more efficiently.

 

[Citius7]

What above said. The plastic cage setup is nice when u manual tumble out the pins takes about 45 seconds in half full water. Checkout the kit that Rebel 17 is. That will give you an idea. Super nice. I wish I bought a convection oven when we remodeled our kitchen. Oh well. I set at ~180 for 45 min.

 

[Harveyn]

1. Open lid of tumbler
2. Poor out dirty water
3. Fill with clean water and poor out
4. Fill with clean water again
5. Pick up brass and turn upside down to get pins out.
6. Treat brass in tarnish inhibitor solution
7. Transfer brass to plastic tray and shake out excess solution
8. Dry in a food dehydrator
9. Anneal

 

[Sweetyzfd]

Yea, you're doing to much work. Buy a media separator kit from any of the places that sell the tumbler. Takes me about 2 mins and they're all done. Except for drying of course

 

[flyright]

I use a 225 degree oven for 15 minutes. Brass can still be handled lightly. After having handled brass freshly fired from an AR, I'm not too worried about that temp but it's as low as my oven will go. No problems thus far. I pretty much do as mijp5 but I use the magnet in the bottom of my rinse pan. I have found a few of the STM pins stick perfectly in a 6.5 neck. I throw those pins away and each time now I'm getting less of that. I still inspect each case with a strong light before reloading.

 

[zipollini]

Wet tumble for a few hours with water, Dawn and LemiShine.
Pour everything into a media separator and spin
Dump cases into small tub and rinse in water
Dump out water and bath cases in ArmorAll Ultra Shine wash and wax solution for 1 minute - this keeps the brass from oxidizing so fast
Rinse cases in filtered water for 1 minute
Pour out solution and dump all the brass into a large towel and tumble back and forth to remove excess water
Place brass in Frankford Arsenal brass dryer for one hour

Note - Instead of using the ArmorAll Ultra Shine and rinsing afterwards you can use STM tarnish inhibitor and just place the cases into your dryer without rinsing.

 

[nexusfire]

Do what i did and switch to rice and stop messing with SS.

 

[mzvarner]

Do what i did and switch to rice and stop messing with SS.

Hmm, I have not come across this option. How are the results? Is the process similar, taking about 2-4 hours or longer? What kind of rice? still using 5 lbs? Any issues with rice getting stuck in the necks or flash holes?

 

[nexusfire]

I do it for 4 hrs. All things being equal, by the time you mess with draining, rinsing, media separation and recovery and drying, it is a lot faster. With small primer there is no issues of rice getting stuck. Large primer, 10 out of 50 you will have to poke a kernal of rice out. Just use medium grain rice. I just buy a big ass bag from Costco. It's cheap.

 

[orkan]

Hmm, I have not come across this option. How are the results? Is the process similar, taking about 2-4 hours or longer? What kind of rice? still using 5 lbs? Any issues with rice getting stuck in the necks or flash holes?

All the info you need:
https://www.primalrights.com/library...rass-with-rice

Pay close attention to the part about what rice to use... unless you like plugged flash holes.
Off the shelf rice plugs flash holes like it's being paid to do it.