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Everybody worries about getting the pins out. I shake the brass, possibly tapping them together then I polish them in a vibratory Tumblr with walnut hull media, and then the (most important step),I blow them out with compressed air and visually check each one!
QuietTexan
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Lyman Dual Sifter System
Unique Sifter SystemThe Lyman Dual Sifter System provides a huge advantage over existing methods of separating stainless steel media pins from cases after rotary tumbling. This two pan set is totally unique in that one pan will separate the cases from the pins, while the other pan separates the...
Pour in Brass
Shake
(If I need to load in a hurry dump cases from shaker into bucket of alcohol)
Dump out on towel
Wait to dry
Never found a pin in a case ever. By the time the cases are dry the pins don't stick if you rinse them out correctly.
I Use a thumbler but some cases do seem to try and hold onto the pins but they usually shake right out. I'll tap them together when pulling them out of the water And onto the towel. I sometimes see a few stray in the bottom of my jerky machine I use to dry. But Typically if there is one pin inside, there's many more. Enough to feel the weight difference. 270 WSM is the absolute worst in my machine. The pins will stack in so tight I can't get them out without inserting one of those super strong magnets into the case mouth and pulling enough Out to release the jam so the rest can spill out. Inspect with a light before loading them and if you wash with the primers removed, pay careful attention to the primer flash holes.
cynjon
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I've been using one for years. I started out using the stainless pins that came with the tumbler. Never had an issue with pins sticking in the case, but the pins are all random lengths. Some of the shortest pins were just big enough to wedge sideways in the primer pocket of anything with a large primer. I got in the habit of inspecting each case...sometimes I'd have half a dozen in a tumbler load that I'd have to remove with a small pair of needle-nose pliers. Got tired of that game, and switched to Southern Shine media. It's stainless chips, quite small, and I've never had any of it stick in cases, ever. Great stuff! My process is to fill a RCBS rotary media separator with water, and dump the brass and media into that. A few revolutions of the separator, and all of the stainless chips fall into the bottom of the separator. Dump the now clean brass into a towel to get most of the water off, then into the dehydrator. Process works great for me.
One tip I learned a long time ago--you can get brass TOO clean with just Dawn and Lemishine. So clean that it could be difficult to seat bullets. I switched from Dawn to an automotive wash-and-wax soap. It leaves just enough of a film on the brass that it doesn't quickly oxidize and get tarnished, and it makes seating bullets in the shiny new cases easier.
One tip I learned a long time ago--you can get brass TOO clean with just Dawn and Lemishine. So clean that it could be difficult to seat bullets. I switched from Dawn to an automotive wash-and-wax soap. It leaves just enough of a film on the brass that it doesn't quickly oxidize and get tarnished, and it makes seating bullets in the shiny new cases easier.
