well so far my soak, rinse, size, dry tumble lube off and get a good shine, rinse again has worked very well. I used a rubber glove the other night lubing the cases and sizing and no black stuff on the glove which means no dust in my house. just soaking and then dry tumble has also got the primer pockets about 50% clean i noticed.
Media separators?
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I have successfully used my already-owned green RCBS Media Separator with my FART for about 2½ years. Even though I treat it gently (no sudden movements or "muscle" and never in a rush) I am a bit surprised that it has lasted this long being used as part of The Wet Process ...
... especially the green hinges. The way that I use it, I have to un-/re-hinge the green hinges 2-3 times with each batch.
When I first got my FART I did not expect the RCBS Media Separator to last ... but, IIRC, someone here suggested that I try it for the task prior to sourcing & buying a heavier-duty product.
So far, so good.
I did experience a hinge-failure within days of getting the unit a decade(?) ago. One of the black hinges failed almost immediately.
A quick phoneall to RCBS and a replacement part was on its way to me in the mail.
All of that said, I do not endorse the acquisition of an RCBS Media Separator for use in wet tumbling. You would be better off with a Media Separator featuring a more robust design.
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I'm using a salad spinner I got at Goodwill for a couple bucks to separate the last few steel pins from wet-tumbled brass. I use the spinner as a shaker, not a spinner: brass is too heavy to spin with this gadget, and the plastic gears can't take sudden reverses to offset centrifugal forces.
I use a Frankford Arsenal tumbler, Armor-All Wash N Wax & Lemishine, a gold sifter pan on top of a 3-gallon bucket, with a 5-gallon paint strainer bag in the bucket to catch the pins.Use an FA magnet to snag the few stray pins.
I've seen a YouTuber who uses a finer-mesh sifter on the bottom to catch pins. I don't think that way would be as easy to get the pins back into the tumbler without spilling as using the paint strainer.
I use a Frankford Arsenal tumbler, Armor-All Wash N Wax & Lemishine, a gold sifter pan on top of a 3-gallon bucket, with a 5-gallon paint strainer bag in the bucket to catch the pins.Use an FA magnet to snag the few stray pins.
I've seen a YouTuber who uses a finer-mesh sifter on the bottom to catch pins. I don't think that way would be as easy to get the pins back into the tumbler without spilling as using the paint strainer.
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