This week I received 4 LFRB of 5.56 brass that I wanted to process.
Normally I deprime, wet tumble and size, but I thought it’d be good to save a step so for the first box I wet tumbled, and the plan was to then deprime and size in one operation, but it took two days to dry the brass. I put it on towels with a fan as usual, but still ended up running it through a dehydrator.
So while I’m dealing with that mess I go to the pet store and buy 20lbs of crushed walnut. Fill the tumbler drum 3/4 full of brass, add about 15 lbs of media, add a few squirts of car wax and let it run for a few hours. The brass comes out looking like crap, really embarrassing vs wet tumbling, but it’s plenty smooth and clean for use. Was able to process all 3 remaining boxes this way today. Got one box deprimed, swaged and sized, tomorrow I’ll do the rest them, or at least as many as I can before my arm falls off.
The only part that kinda sucked was separating the media. I poured the media and brass into my shell sorter and the media fell through, but I still had to pick up the cases by the handful and dump them out. Took maybe 10 min per batch.
Normally I deprime, wet tumble and size, but I thought it’d be good to save a step so for the first box I wet tumbled, and the plan was to then deprime and size in one operation, but it took two days to dry the brass. I put it on towels with a fan as usual, but still ended up running it through a dehydrator.
So while I’m dealing with that mess I go to the pet store and buy 20lbs of crushed walnut. Fill the tumbler drum 3/4 full of brass, add about 15 lbs of media, add a few squirts of car wax and let it run for a few hours. The brass comes out looking like crap, really embarrassing vs wet tumbling, but it’s plenty smooth and clean for use. Was able to process all 3 remaining boxes this way today. Got one box deprimed, swaged and sized, tomorrow I’ll do the rest them, or at least as many as I can before my arm falls off.
The only part that kinda sucked was separating the media. I poured the media and brass into my shell sorter and the media fell through, but I still had to pick up the cases by the handful and dump them out. Took maybe 10 min per batch.