Wet tumbling 101

[Stubb]

I switched to wet tumbling years ago to reduce mess. Here’s a video on how I’m doing it these days.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774903450100179030

 

[Control for Smilers]

I switched to wet tumbling years ago to reduce mess. Here’s a video on how I’m doing it these days.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774903450100179030

I might try no pins. going wet was 100% a quality of life improvement. I have bad allergies and some lung damage from chemotherapy. the dust from walnut/corncob always bothered me.

 

[jpm2953]

I don’t use pins either. They aren’t worth the hassle. My brass looks brand new. A bit of lemishine really helps too

 

[Stubb]

Lemi-Shine does give a nice sparkle to the brass. Downside is discoloration if you get distracted and leave the brass soaking in the tumbler overnight

 

[Control for Smilers]

Lemi-Shine does give a nice sparkle to the brass. Downside is discoloration if you get distracted and leave the brass soaking in the tumbler overnight

been there done that...sigh. lol.

 

[robchavous]

I picked up a wet tumbler a few months ago and it's so much better.

 

[MuleShoe]

I bought wet tumbler last month.

 

[Cartman]

I can’t believe people still dry tumble.

 

[Braxton1]

One thing about wet tumbling:

I have been loading for 40 years. I have NEVER had a "ringer", where the center of the primer pushes out and the rim of the primer stays in the primer pocket, until now. I had a 10k batch of brass that was wet tumbled and not dried quickly. The primers corroded in the pockets, causing a bunch of ringers.

I ended up "processing" that particular batch: decapping, resizing, and swaging in one operation on one machine. I inspected them and then came back to prime, charge, seat, and crimp on a second machine.

It was just that batch, thank God!! The next batch has been going swimmingly.

 

[Stubb]

I have been loading for 40 years. I have NEVER had a "ringer", where the center of the primer pushes out and the rim of the primer stays in the primer pocket, until now.

I'll get these on occasion. An under-rated benefit of the 1050's swage rod is that you'll immediately notice if something goes wrong with decapping.