I recently picked up a F. A. R. T. tumbler and it came with 5lbs SS pins. When tumbling brass the shells come out like new, but when I did a small batch of nickel with the SS pins, they were clean but rather dull. Now I did do some searching prior to tumbling on the net pro/con using SS pins for this very problem, and some said don't use pins with nickel and others said no difference after tumbling. When I contacted Frankford Arsenal with the use pins don't use pins on nickel question they only responded with don't mix brass and nickel when tumbling.
So, those of you that wet tumble do you use the SS pins to tumble nickel or just tumble them without the pins? I'm going to try a small batch without the pins and see how it cleans esp primer pockets.
v-fib
So, those of you that wet tumble do you use the SS pins to tumble nickel or just tumble them without the pins? I'm going to try a small batch without the pins and see how it cleans esp primer pockets.
v-fib