tightgroup tiger
Member
I respect your opinion the same as others and factor it into the mix.
You won't have to tell me you told me so, because I won't be tumbling loaded rifle shells in my rotary tumbler any more because it is just to ruinous to the tips.
I will continue to put my 9mm loads through it for 15 minutes or so to get the lube off of them because of two recomendation from:
RC model: quote: "your gun will thank your for it" in a previous question I had about cleaning off lube on 9mm shells in a straight blow back action.
and
Walkalong; who provided this excellent post from years ago about He and Snuffy tumbling pistol loaded pistol loads for 48 hours continuously with no problems and proving that it had no effect on the outcome of pressure problems from powder breakdown or bullet setback.
I am an "Industrial Electrical and Controls" guy, and have been in engineering my whole life in Electrical and Mechanical both and I also understand faraday
principles,
I know that the new tumblers are mostly plastic with no static guard built into them, I built the rotary tumbler I use 25 yrs ago and have static guard built into it because I am using a steel drum on insulated rollers.
I also tumble in my garage here in hot and humid North Carolina which in itself is a static guard vs an air conditioned dry enviroment that spawns static.
I heed your warnings as I do everyones but I don't think I'm in jeopardy by tumbling loaded shells under these conditions, short of beating up my bullet tips. I will have to get a vibratory tumbler to minimize this.
Under different conditions, such as super dry environments, poor electrical grounding and the like, I would go by the old addage that "anything can and will happen, and will adversly affect the outcome" therum.
I feel tumbling pistol shells in my rotary tumbler for only 15 minutes or so is safe for me under my conditions. Rifle shells I will pass on in the future in this tumbler.
I appreciate your concerns and it's what I would expect to see on this forum from concerned members.
thank you.
TT
You won't have to tell me you told me so, because I won't be tumbling loaded rifle shells in my rotary tumbler any more because it is just to ruinous to the tips.
I will continue to put my 9mm loads through it for 15 minutes or so to get the lube off of them because of two recomendation from:
RC model: quote: "your gun will thank your for it" in a previous question I had about cleaning off lube on 9mm shells in a straight blow back action.
and
Walkalong; who provided this excellent post from years ago about He and Snuffy tumbling pistol loaded pistol loads for 48 hours continuously with no problems and proving that it had no effect on the outcome of pressure problems from powder breakdown or bullet setback.
I am an "Industrial Electrical and Controls" guy, and have been in engineering my whole life in Electrical and Mechanical both and I also understand faraday
principles,
I know that the new tumblers are mostly plastic with no static guard built into them, I built the rotary tumbler I use 25 yrs ago and have static guard built into it because I am using a steel drum on insulated rollers.
I also tumble in my garage here in hot and humid North Carolina which in itself is a static guard vs an air conditioned dry enviroment that spawns static.
I heed your warnings as I do everyones but I don't think I'm in jeopardy by tumbling loaded shells under these conditions, short of beating up my bullet tips. I will have to get a vibratory tumbler to minimize this.
Under different conditions, such as super dry environments, poor electrical grounding and the like, I would go by the old addage that "anything can and will happen, and will adversly affect the outcome" therum.
I feel tumbling pistol shells in my rotary tumbler for only 15 minutes or so is safe for me under my conditions. Rifle shells I will pass on in the future in this tumbler.
I appreciate your concerns and it's what I would expect to see on this forum from concerned members.
thank you.
TT