When I was in the USAF in Nebraska (1980s)one of the guys had a side business (ffl). I went to pick up my Dan Wesson one day, he had a small cement mixer going, his partner was shoveling empties into it.
Posts: 6386 | Location: NY, NY | Registered: 28 November 2005
A gent on another forum lucked into a huge amount of brass, like 55 gallon drums worth. The Harbor Freight cement mixer was his answer to tumbling to clean the cases prior to sale. Frank
hi I cleaned 10K cases using brichwood casey case cleaner. Get the brass warm in the sun, fill a 5 gal. bucket, let sit for 5 min, remove, rinse in clean water, and dry in the sun. Phosphoric acid is the main ingrediant. worked for me.
Posts: 46 | Location: ohio, usa | Registered: 31 December 2005
This set up, using a 40 lb. production tumbler, (Covington Engineering brand), from Stainless Tumbling Media of Orem, Ut, along with 15 lbs. of their stainless steel pins should perform quite nicely for the .50 caliber brass. Just add water, Dawn dish washing detergent, and Lemishine polisher, and you're set to go. Cheers. chip.
Posts: 268 | Location: TUCSON, AZ | Registered: 18 November 2007
I've always used the usual tumblers for 50 bmg. My RCBS would hold 20 and my Thumbler tumbler (water, stainless media) holds 30 at a time. they work just fine .
Ranb
______________________________ In my opinion the best accessory to put on a rifle is a silencer.
Posts: 803 | Location: WA, USA | Registered: 29 December 2003
