okay, i know this is telling on myself, but I was being lasy, and through some 358 win with 45lc.. about 1/2 of the slipped into each other, and I had to take each "pair" apart, pour the media into the tumbler, seperate and retumble.
Ditto .40 S&W and .45acp, a real PITA. I was given a pail of range brass and found I wasn`t much better at finding the .40s than the guy that supposedly seperated it the first time.
Posts: 2535 | Location: Michigan | Registered: 20 January 2001
480 Ruger and 357 magnum don't work well together either. 45 colt get other cases stuck with that big mouth. This is what I hate about tumbling mixed brass (not to say anything about the seperating the brass).
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Posts: 305 | Location: Green Bay, WI | Registered: 09 September 2002
quote:Originally posted by Pecos45: Anyone with a tumbler who hasn't done this, Jeffe, just hasn't tumbled much brass. Don't feel like the Lone Ranger...er Lone Tumbler.
I gotta agree with you, i usually do seperated brass, but I was being lasy and wanted to clean off my bench from a couple past shooting sessions... figured it would be easy enough to feel/see the diff...
A friend gave me a big bag of .45 brass that had some .40 and .50AE mixed in. I figured, what the heck, tumble it all and seperate it after it's clean. The .40/.45 mating is a PITA but the .45/.50 pairing is next to impossible to get apart. Must be love.
I feel just like chopped liver!!!!! I never done that, but I do mix cases in the tumbler. roger
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Posts: 10226 | Location: Temple City CA | Registered: 29 April 2003
I've done it. After a few times, I got so hosed off with having to separate them that I now tumble each caliber separately. I just turn on the tumbler and let it rock for about two hours while I do other things. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly mean and nasty, I'll let it tumble for hours and hours over several days. They come out so-o-o clean and with a soft sheen to them...
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My all time favorite pairing in the tumbler has to be 45LC and 45-70. The 45LC is about a gnat's-ass smaller than the 45-70 case, so when it gets stuck it is S-T-U-C-K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! regards,
Originally posted by Bob338: Lyman sells "bags" that are like netting to enable you to put cases like those described here, in the tumbler and eliminates that problem.
I like that idea. But you'll go blind trying to seperate cases that are very close in size.
Heck, I just throw 'em all in the tumbler and toss the ones that get stuck together.
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I feel just like chopped liver!!!!! I never done that, but I do mix cases in the tumbler. 
roger
