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ordered my first wet tumbler, Couple questions
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<blockquote data-quote="bigedp51" data-source="post: 1847890" data-attributes="member: 28965"><p>If the water is not sudsy after wet tumbling then add more dishwashing liquid the next time. The soap holds the dirt in suspension and if the water is not sudsy your not cleaning. The amount of soap depends on how hard your water is</p><p></p><p>Tumbling time, less is more, the more and harder the cases hit the case mouth the more peening you will have.</p><p></p><p>I have a Lyman turbo tumbler for dry media, a STM wet tumbler and last year I bought a sonic cleaner. And the sonic cleaner is used more than anything else. It does not have the "bling" of wet tumbling but the cases are just as clean with no peened case mouths.</p><p></p><p>Below is a .44 Special case that was wet tumbled for slightly less than one hour. This case had been trimmed and deburred and the case mouth shows the dings and peening from tumbling. And when the case was expanded I would have small fine brass flakes inside the case. Meaning the expander was breaking loose the rolled over peened brass edges on the case mouth. This was the biggest reason for going with a sonic cleaner and not having to trim and deburr the cases to remove the peening.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/fiSsctS.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Below are two .243 cases, the case on the left is my falt, and forgot and let them tumble over eight hours. And this case had been trimmed and deburred on its last firing and really took a pounding. The case on the right is right out of the Winchester bag and shows the effect of factory tumbling.</p><p></p><p>So remember the cases hit each other when tumbled and hit the case mouth. And even a rotary media separator will let the cases hit each other and ding the case mouth.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/CIxnlIW.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigedp51, post: 1847890, member: 28965"] If the water is not sudsy after wet tumbling then add more dishwashing liquid the next time. The soap holds the dirt in suspension and if the water is not sudsy your not cleaning. The amount of soap depends on how hard your water is Tumbling time, less is more, the more and harder the cases hit the case mouth the more peening you will have. I have a Lyman turbo tumbler for dry media, a STM wet tumbler and last year I bought a sonic cleaner. And the sonic cleaner is used more than anything else. It does not have the "bling" of wet tumbling but the cases are just as clean with no peened case mouths. Below is a .44 Special case that was wet tumbled for slightly less than one hour. This case had been trimmed and deburred and the case mouth shows the dings and peening from tumbling. And when the case was expanded I would have small fine brass flakes inside the case. Meaning the expander was breaking loose the rolled over peened brass edges on the case mouth. This was the biggest reason for going with a sonic cleaner and not having to trim and deburr the cases to remove the peening. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/fiSsctS.jpg[/IMG] Below are two .243 cases, the case on the left is my falt, and forgot and let them tumble over eight hours. And this case had been trimmed and deburred on its last firing and really took a pounding. The case on the right is right out of the Winchester bag and shows the effect of factory tumbling. So remember the cases hit each other when tumbled and hit the case mouth. And even a rotary media separator will let the cases hit each other and ding the case mouth. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/CIxnlIW.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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