FYI--Did a lot of tumbling the last two days; both rotory and vibratory. All things being the same the vibratory wins hands down by a huge factor. roger

Ditto.

muck

i have both and the rotary works just as good but you cannot load as much in it as the vibrator

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Originally posted by bartsche:
.......All things being the same the vibratory wins hands down by a huge factor. roger

Unfortunately for me, my wife would agree with you.

Jim

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Originally posted by pdhntr1:

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Originally posted by bartsche:
.......All things being the same the vibratory wins hands down by a huge factor. roger

Unfortunately for me, my wife would agree with you.Jim

As long as she's the only one to reach that conclusion you're still in the BALL game. roger

I'm curious as to why one would want to use a rotary tumbler for polishing brass ?.
My Dillon vibratory does a spiffy job as does the Ultrasonic cleaner .

Rolling and tumbling makes for crooked case mouths doesn't it ?. I've heard that as I don't own one don't know that for fact .

I have a net mesh bag that I clean shot shells in the washer . I throw in a couple of old sheets or towel add just a touch of fabric softener they come out PRETTY !.
Of course the Wife isn't home when I do it !.

Shoot Straight Know Your Target . ...

In my experience a vibratory "tumbler" will not clean up old tarnished cases. While it will clean them it does not remove stains or tarnish. Unless of course you leave them in there for several days. Unacceptable.

Hence the rotary tumbler. One quart water, plus a squirt of good liquid dish soap, plus 1/4 cup white vinegar, five six hours later you have NEW, NEW, NEW appearing cases. Wash thoroughly in cold clean water, agitate, rinse, agitate, rinse and dry. You can put them on a tray in the sun, blow them off with a hair dryer or heat gun, or, my favorite, put them on the wood stove for one or two minutes. Works like a champ and I've been cleaning cases like this for about 15 years or so. I've fired many of these cases in excess of 10 times with never a problem, and had many in storage for years with not a hint of corrosion.

Regards,
Eric

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Originally posted by Eric:
In my experience a vibratory "tumbler" will not clean up old tarnished cases. While it will clean them it does not remove stains or tarnish. Unless of course you leave them in there for several days. Unacceptable.

Hence the rotary tumbler. One quart water, plus a squirt of good liquid dish soap, plus 1/4 cup white vinegar, five six hours later you have NEW, NEW, NEW appearing cases. Wash thoroughly in cold clean water, agitate, rinse, agitate, rinse and dry. You can put them on a tray in the sun, blow them off with a hair dryer or heat gun, or, my favorite, put them on the wood stove for one or two minutes. Works like a champ and I've been cleaning cases like this for about 15 years or so. I've fired many of these cases in excess of 10 times with never a problem, and had many in storage for years with not a hint of corrosion.Regards,Eric

Dog gone ,Eric, I knew there was a better way. I'll just go out and buy a wood stove. Ben Franklin type of course roger

I've never had mine in the Dillon longer than 2 Hrs. ON ANY CASES no matter how filthy they were !.

Brass that has been setting on the ground at ranges or in buckets for years and years , clean up for me with very little prep .

First I wash with Borax and baking soda hot water ( I don't use acetic acid Vinegar ) I do use two cap fulls of phosphoric acid in the mix .

I let them soak for 30 minutes agitating a couple of times and neutralize with baking soda and water then rinse with water . Let them roll around in my tumbler separator and dry then put them in the Dillon for 20-45 minutes .

I never do it again one time only , after that the Dillon for maybe 20 minutes after 10-25 loadings .

Boeshield T9 allows me to simply wipe the cases after reloading ( It's my lube of choice ) put them into my plastic ammo boxes .

Good to go and they just don't get dirty for several reloadings , of course when resizing they have to be wiped every time but what doesn't !.

Shoot Straight Know Your Target . ...

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Originally posted by Dr.K:
I'm curious as to why one would want to use a rotary tumbler for polishing brass ?.

Why? because I've inherited 3 rotary machines and bought 1 vibratory and have a large number of cases to clean after five days. What is a mother to do?

Oh! The vinegar and salt works just fine and if you don't mind a little metalic taste in your salad when through tumbling---- Nough said roger

Understood Roger .If you own it might as well use it .
Rotary Tumblers
Do they indeed bang up case mouths ?.

Borax Baking Soda are powerful cleaners as is salt used in proper context .

Shoot Straight Know Your Target . ...

DR.K nope

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Originally posted by plainsman456:
DR.K nope

x 2

http://www.6mmbr.com/ultrasonic.html

try this....ultrasonic as opposed to corn husk/ walnut shell cleaning processes. I did and will not look back....

My ultrasonic unit was 50.00 and came from
http://search.harborfreight.com/cpisearch/web/search.do...sultsPerPageBottom=0

Been using a tumbler foryears to clean dirty cases from the range and again after case preparation. No problems, no case mouth dents ot dings, just clean shiny cases.

Vibratory for cleaning and polishing cases.Rotary for degreasing cases and molly coating bullets. I do not lift the vibratory tumbler while it is working and always leave the media in the bowl after I am finished.