I need a new tumbler and thinking about trying one of the sonic ones. Anyone have anything to offer good or bad about the new Hornady one and do you have to use the cleaner they sell?

Thanks, Michael

Take a look in the cleaning forum just under this one.

I do a lot of ultrasonic cleaning and love the results. You might care to check harborfreight.com as they have what looks to me to be the identical ultrasonic unit. I purchased it from them and have been very pleased with the results. I use one cycle of 50/50 vinegar/water with a drop of dish soap. The one cycle with a dilute of birchwood casey and then a cycle of fresh distilled water. Cases, inside and out could not be brighter and absolutely no residue -- not even in the primer pockets.

+1 for check the cleaning forum ---and if you are going to waste money on US cleaning -- the harbor frieght machine is cheaper and more effective-- if such a thing can be said--than the Hornady--which is a dressed up jewelry cleaner

I haven't seen the Hornady LnL cleaner but do have the larger Harbor Freight cleaner. It's okay for what I got it for, cleaning small mechanical things like chain saw carborators. Tried cleaning a few cases, okay I suppose but I'm not impressed and liquid cleaning for no benefit seems a lot of trouble for no gain to me. YMMV. ??

I'm about so tired of Hornady's over-use of the "LnL" label I wouldn't get one simply as resistance to their attempts to motivate us to buy anything so labeled. (Know what I mean, Earl?)

Thanks everyone, A very interesting thread below, I learned a lot.