waco
Springfield, Oregon
The wife and I bought a large Thumbler's Tumbler a few years back for polishing rocks. Last year a buddy from work was cleaning out his shop and came across an old kinda beat up Lortone tumbler. "would you like this for tumbling brass?" Why not?
So it came home with me. I took it apart and cleaned it up a bit. Lots of rust and what not. It seemed to work well enough.
Fast forward to tonight. I'm in the shop painting new steel targets and while waiting for primer to flash off I spot the Ol gal in the corner.
I have a big bag of old milsurp .308 brass that were pull downs. Still have live primers in them. Super grimy, grungy, and a bit green.
I thought, what the heck.
I grabbed a drum and put roughly a teaspoon of Lemishine in it along with a tiny squirt of Dawn dish soap and just a drizzle of Nu Finish car polish for good measure.
Plugged her in and away we go. I'll let it run for a few hours and post results later. Oh yeah. I have never wet tumbled before and do not have any SS pins on hand.
This is kind of an experiment to see how well the brass will get clean without the pins.
So it came home with me. I took it apart and cleaned it up a bit. Lots of rust and what not. It seemed to work well enough.
Fast forward to tonight. I'm in the shop painting new steel targets and while waiting for primer to flash off I spot the Ol gal in the corner.
I have a big bag of old milsurp .308 brass that were pull downs. Still have live primers in them. Super grimy, grungy, and a bit green.
I thought, what the heck.
I grabbed a drum and put roughly a teaspoon of Lemishine in it along with a tiny squirt of Dawn dish soap and just a drizzle of Nu Finish car polish for good measure.
Plugged her in and away we go. I'll let it run for a few hours and post results later. Oh yeah. I have never wet tumbled before and do not have any SS pins on hand.
This is kind of an experiment to see how well the brass will get clean without the pins.