I am in the market for a tumbler and media seperator but have no idea what to buy. Looking for the best bang for my buck. No punn intended. Any assistace is greatly appreciated.

Go to a Dollar General Store, etc, and find an office type waste basket made of wire mesh, cost a couple bucks. Drop the basket into a clean 3-5 gal plastic paint bucket, the paint bucket should be free or nearly so.

Pour the tumbler contents into the basket, give it a few turns. The media will be in the bottom of the bucket, ready to return to your tumbler and the brass will be in the basket.

Thanks for the info. Anything on a tumbler?

I have Frankford Arsenal both. they were inexpensive and have so far lasted years without trouble.

I went with the Dillon combo, tumbler and seperator. Cheap enough, and running strong for years.

Good luck!

I pick the cases out by hand and knock the media out of the flash hole with a dart or modified nail.

I used a Lyman Tubby Tumbler for years until I took in one of their larger non-autoflow models in trade a couple years back.

Both have worked great!

Very happy with the Cabelas combo of tumbler and media separator. The advantage of using a proper separator vs just dumping them in a sieve arrangement of some sort is that the fine dust is contained in a proper separator and helps minimize lead exposure.

"Anything on a tumbler?"

Yeah. Tumblers is tumblers. They all work fine, most do for a long time. No practical differences attributible to brand name.

Anything with a moving part can fail but most makers stand behind their products pretty well I think. We don't need to buy a high dollar tumbler to get good support later.

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Originally posted by Jim C. <><:
Go to a Dollar General Store, etc, and find an office type waste basket made of wire mesh, cost a couple bucks.

COOL! I tried a number of home-made things in the past. I currently just put on the slotted top that came with the tumbler and "pour" the media into a 5gal bucket. It takes several minutes of shaking the tumbler to get all the media out. But this would be so much simpler. Thanks, Jim