Dry tumble - lid on or off?

For Dry-Tumblers only - Not Wet! - Do you tumble lid on or lid off?

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Highland Lofts said:
When I use a kid River fishing for small mouth bask bank in Upstate New York I use to tighten down my splitshot sinkers with my teeth, grew up with lead in the paint and related a lot of lead bullets with my bare hands and fifty plus years I still don't have any medical issues.
I think alot of this stuff is all blown out of apportion.
Just my personal thought.
I think it all has to do with your personal genetics.
Some people do have weaker genetics and are affected by things other people can just brush off.
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Wel, at lost it hadnut afflicted yur typig. :rofl::D

[just teasing]
 
Highland Lofts said:
When I use a kid River fishing for small mouth bass back in Upstate New York I use to tighten down my splitshot sinkers with my teeth, grew up with lead in the paint and reloaded a lot of lead bullets with my bare hands and fifty plus years I still don't have any medical issues.
I think alot of this stuff is all blown out of apportion.
Just my personal thought.
I think it all has to do with your personal genetics.
Some people do have weaker genetics and are affected by things other people can just brush off.
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Ever had a blood test done to see if your lead levels are at a normal level?
 
Highland Lofts said:
This spell check really iritates me, you write something and it changes your words for you.


I have a DR. appointment in the beginning of May and I will do a lead test then.
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No problem, just eat lots of potatoes, they'll clean the lead out of your system.:thumbup:

Or is that for radiation poisoning? :thumbdown:

Either way, potatoes are good so, eat more of them. :)
 
Highland Lofts said:
This spell check really iritates me, you write something and it changes your words for you.


I have a DR. appointment in the beginning of May and I will do a lead test then.
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my brother did a blood test and he cast indoor. Doctor told him the wear PPE’s . Once lead gets into your system it says their! It the dust that is the dangerous part of lead.

Not a medical pro but I bet if you swallowed that lead fishing shot, it would just pass right through
 
Mark_Mark said:
my brother did a blood test and he cast indoor. Doctor told him the wear PPE’s . Once lead gets into your system it says their! It the dust that is the dangerous part of lead.

Not a medical pro but I bet if you swallowed that lead fishing shot, it would just pass right through
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If you removed hook first
 
CQB45ACP said:
Man you are one tough SOB between cancer and heart attack. God bless you brother.
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Salivary gland’s. They removed the tumor from the inside. Two surgeries, no chemotherapy, minimal radiation. I’ve got a set of scars that run from the back of my throat up to the front teeth but it’s all on the inside so no one sees it but me. Good reminder that actions have consequences. Always. :)
 
Bazoo said:
I drink while loading. Coffee, coke, water. But I’m careful not to touch the rim or get dust in it.
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I avoid consuming any liquids or food in my workshop (which is where I reload). Too many years of guck and glop that could get stirred up and ingested. But then I smoked for years too so who am I kidding?
 
CQB45ACP said:
I avoid consuming any liquids or food in my workshop (which is where I reload). Too many years of guck and glop that could get stirred up and ingested. But then I smoked for years too so who am I kidding?
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100 percent agree! I drink coffee or tea in my room. why, because it’s my paradise room.

beside, we use to play with asbestos heating pipes when we were kids. Stick the pencil right into the crunchy stuff and that was at school.
 
Lid on with some very old treated gray corncob. I added some Lyman TuffNut to it and some NuFinish as well. It works really well. The brass comes out almost white it's so shiny.

I tried lid off once because I kept adding brass as it was running. It made a horrible radial mess all around my tumbler. This was in the shop and my shop floor had a huge dust ring around the tumbler.
 
EMC45 said:
I tried lid off once because I kept adding brass as it was running. It made a horrible radial mess all around my tumbler. This was in the shop and my shop floor had a huge dust ring around the tumbler.
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This is why I went to wet tumbleing and retired ny two dry tumblers.
 
Before I started wet tumbling l dry tumbled indoors. The lid was always on. I added a cap full of spirits mixed 50/50 with liquid car wax (cheapest I could find) about every 6 or 7 batches of brass. A couple cut up used dryer towels were put in every run to absorb crud. I never had any dust. After a hundred or so batches I would replace the corn cob media. I thought this worked pretty well until I tried wet tumbling. Now I only dry tumble to remove case lube.
 
I have two of the larger Frankford Wet Tumblers. They can tumble 1,000 pieces of 223 cases each.
My dry tumblers haven't been used in a few years. I still have a bunch of corn cob & walnut media sitting on a shelf.
It's all personal choice what people use & like.
 
There was mention made of using used dryer sheets but never fresh. Why not fresh. That’s mostly what I’ve used and I don’t see it present an issue.
 
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Bazoo said:
There was mention made of using used truer sheets but never fresh. Why not fresh. That’s mostly what I’ve used and I don’t see it present an issue.
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It doesn't really cause an issue, it just doesn't work as well. I've done it both ways and the new sheets come out kinda' clean looking, whereas the used sheets catch more dust and come out filthy looking.

chris
 
The new sheets I’ve used came out caked with dust. I think I’ve used used sheets but now that I’m thinking about, it’s been so long that I can’t remember. I had bought a box of cheap dryer sheets and kept next to the tumbler for a while. I also ain’t used them in a spell now too.
 
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