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I came home from work last night, after a long week of 14 hour days and sleazy motels, planning on throwing a load of brass in the tumbler, for a peaceful reloading session on Saturday. I am planning the day of reloading in my mind, all week, and looking forward to the relaxation.

Anyway, I arrive home, pull in the garage, and my tumbler is running. I hesitate for a moment, wondering if I may have left it on last Sunday or something.

I walked over to the reloading bench, look inside, and I see a ring, and an earring come shaking to the top of the media. Oh No.....is nothing sacred anymore?? My wife, after watching me clean some brass two weeks ago, has decided to use my man-cave ammo building toys, to clean her non-terrorist fighting jewelry!!!

Has anyone else run into this sort of thing??? I don't think she understands that this is the area where I prepare to win in a zombie invasion, or a terrorist strike on our small midwestern town!!

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I often throw the woman's crap in my tumbler. Recently, she told me she used my 8" wheeled bench buffer to polish her silver.
 
Yes, mine did the same thing. I was a little afraid to say anything, because she is very fluent with every firearm in the house and I am not fond of sleeping on the couch. :D
 
Look on the bright side!

You can smelt down the dryer sheets in your tumbler and sell the gold & silver dust you recover to buy more reloading supplies!!

rc
 
Shushh! My wife hasn't thought about this...yet! Well, its no use now...the cats out of the bag. Won't be a week before I find her stuff in my cleaner. She has already taken over most of my loading room. :D

Mark
 
My whole family has taken my tumbler, even some friends from work. It has seen a lot of brass of course, but rings, necklaces, bracelets, coins, carburetor parts for dirt bikes and lawnmowers, pieces to brass musical instruments, fishing lures, pocket knives, antique brass drawer pulls, and I'm sure other things I have forgotten about or never knew about. It's amazing that I ever get it back long enough to run brass to reload.
 
My tumbler is still untouched, but I came home a few weeks ago to find all my cleaned pistol brass was deprimed and sorted by head stamp in separate bins. I acted as if nothing was wrong in hopes that it keeps happening. Lol
 
Problem solved here....

Take some of that hard earned money and buy her/you an ultrasonic cleaner.
Don't have to be top of the line, but one good enough for jewelry

Place it close to the door outside of your "Man Cave Zombie Apocalypse Ammo Manufacturing Facility" and tell her that "maybe" she can use it sometimes???
And it's better than anything else to clean with. Show her how it's used or maybe she is already versed on them?

Don't use it for brass or anything related.

Next time she WILL use it and not your other toys.....
I had to do something like that with my wife and it "Worked" with NO couch time..!!! :eek:


TxDon

Ps...I like how you wrote your post...it was refreshing to read and put a smile on my face early this morning. :)
 
You need to be proactive with this kind of things :rolleyes:, and I'll explain myself. I'm a happy single man again, but when I wasn't, I also had my ex watching with an interested face at how bright my brass came out of my usual cleaning procedure, which includes both ultrasonic cleaning and dry tumbling. Before she decided to do it on her own, I offered to have her jewelry cleaned and did so in about an hour. She was happy with the results and I was happier knowing that nobody other than me was to put hands on my reloading bench's stuff.
 
Texas Don..... does the ultrasonic cleaner really work that much better? I've been sort of looking at them, but with my reloading bench getting overcrowded, I wasn't sure if it was worth burning the space, let alone the price.

I'm fairly new to reloading, so thus far most of my brass is in pretty good shape. I've picked up a few at the range, and will probably pick up a lot more now that the snow and cold is gone, and shooting is picking up a bit.
 
"Man Cave Zombie Apocalypse Ammo Manufacturing Facility"


I like that. Think I may have a sign made for over my reloading bench.
 
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Texas Don..... does the ultrasonic cleaner really work that much better? I've been sort of looking at them, but with my reloading bench getting overcrowded, I wasn't sure if it was worth burning the space, let alone the price.

I'm fairly new to reloading, so thus far most of my brass is in pretty good shape. I've picked up a few at the range, and will probably pick up a lot more now that the snow and cold is gone, and shooting is picking up a bit.
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With most jewelry has fine cracks and crevices. The US cleaner will get to those places where a tumbler will not. And besides she needs to be aware of the LEAD in the tumbler. Particularly if there are any young children/babies that like to put things in there mouth.
 
Sni-per said:
"Man Cave Zombie Apocalypse Ammo Manufacturing Facility"


I like that. Think I may have a sign made for over my reloading bench.
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And you think your wife will be deterring by that?

Good luck. :)

Great name though.
 
It is a partnership guys
I could care less if the wife uses the tumbler. We got a 6 drawer tool box with the bottom cabinet full of power tools - and she can operate every one of them. I was out of commission with a major surgery last may and she single handedly remodeled the kitchen. Floors, walls, cabinets, and windows.

Besides in the apocalypse she will lay down suppressive fire while I maneuver.:)
 
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Understand, I really don't care that my wife uses the tumbler. In fact, she has been watching me reload and is quite interested in the process. She shoots a Ruger SR22 and a Springfield XD 9mm. We have a blast at the range, shooting golf balls for distance.

It just surprised me that she was using the tumbler at all. I'm thinking maybe I should invest in an ultrasound, which would make her life easier, and I could use it from time to time.

Anyone recommend a good one? Do I need to buy the cleaner, or is there a home recipe?
 
Be aware, when my sis in law discovered my brother's brass tumbler for jewelry a new tumbler was one of the few reloading tools she didn't question the purchase of. As I recall, she even went with him to get it and managed to talk the manager into a discount on more expensive model.

While I understand your desire for a private space keep in mind you have a sizable investment in that "man cave" that will be far more palatable if some of the tools have a secondary use.

If that doesn't convince you... I'll leave you with line on my cousin's (the divorce lawyer) business card. "If he didn't take you for better or for worse, I can help you take him for everything."

Just kidding, it actually says - Witch in court.
 
"My" tumbler? Really?

Marriages vary. In ours, there are my underwear, pants, shoes, socks, etc., and hers; my toothbrush, and hers; my wallet; her purse; my iPhone, and hers; my driver's license, and hers, along with similar ID items.

Everything else is ours: the house, the appliances, the televisions, the computers. the iPad, the bird feeders.....

The cars are in our respective names for good reason.

It is better that way.
 
My wife came to me years back and asked me if the tumbler would work on her rings and stuff. I told her absolutely not, it may bend or break the settings. And if any of the stones should come out, the process to look for them would involve days of sifting through an entire 5 gal. bucket of media.

That took care of my problem, bit it looks like it may be too late for the OP.

GS
 
Harbor Freight has a decent enough ultrasonic cleaner so you can get a feel for it. It works pretty good I think. I use it for cleaning my glasses, brass, derusting things, cleaning airbrushes.

If you look up ultrasonic cleaner on YouTube, many of the videos feature the HF unit.
 
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