yhtomit
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I don't have any pictures to attach, but perhaps I will try again next visit to Ye Olde Castle of Home to take some. With that in mind (perhaps someone *has* some good pictures, though, and I'd be grateful to see them), I am trying to know if my tumbler is doing what it should
I tumbled 200 .45 ACP cases this weekend -- as related in another post, my first experiment with it -- and they came out after an hour in my Frankford tumbler (the manual suggests 30-60 minutes, and at 30 minutes the cases weren't looking much different, so I kept 'em in the full time).
At 30 minutes, too, I peered into a lot of them to see how the insides were looking, and for the most part I was seeing black -- just a few spots where it was starting to give way to exposed brass.
At 60 minutes, many cases (but certainly not all) had a lot of metal showing on the inside (by the primer), while the walls remain mostly burnt-powder black.
So how clean is clean, exactly? What should I be aiming toward? The manual suggests that the sequence go:
- clean (as above)
- deprime
- polish (for a longer time).
I'm not surprised, since I used no brass polish, just corn cob media, that the outsides don't look like new brass. They still look perfectly fine and clean. But the insides, I'm just not sure how to know what they should look like.
Any reloaders out there geniuses at getting macro shots from the confined space of inside a correctly cleaned shell, and / or a polished one?
timothy
I tumbled 200 .45 ACP cases this weekend -- as related in another post, my first experiment with it -- and they came out after an hour in my Frankford tumbler (the manual suggests 30-60 minutes, and at 30 minutes the cases weren't looking much different, so I kept 'em in the full time).
At 30 minutes, too, I peered into a lot of them to see how the insides were looking, and for the most part I was seeing black -- just a few spots where it was starting to give way to exposed brass.
At 60 minutes, many cases (but certainly not all) had a lot of metal showing on the inside (by the primer), while the walls remain mostly burnt-powder black.
So how clean is clean, exactly? What should I be aiming toward? The manual suggests that the sequence go:
- clean (as above)
- deprime
- polish (for a longer time).
I'm not surprised, since I used no brass polish, just corn cob media, that the outsides don't look like new brass. They still look perfectly fine and clean. But the insides, I'm just not sure how to know what they should look like.
Any reloaders out there geniuses at getting macro shots from the confined space of inside a correctly cleaned shell, and / or a polished one?
timothy