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I haven't found anything that works better than a mix of SST pins and ceramic with one pill of Cascade dish washer soap and just a pinch of Lemishine.
This even works best if you save the muddy water strained through a classifier with small enough screen that will hold the pins and when that 5 gallon bucket gets full let the muddy water settle and drain off the clear and throw the mud away.
I don't do this for the economy I do it because I get results that you see below.
I put the settled mix in gallon milk bottles for use while the new muddy water clears up and reused.

Kurt
All I see is pods or tabs.....same as your "pill" reference?
kw

One of those is really to much that's why I save the drained mix and it works best recycled. One will make a lot of suds but that helps cushion the cases and I don't get the meaning some say they get.
I even use a Frankford Arsenal tumbler that has a large hard barrel and it spins faster than the two tumbler tumblers I wore out.

The recycled mix when it settles is clear and blue color. I use it straight or even mix it 50/50 with water and that is just fine doing that.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cascade-Comp ... lsrc=3p.ds

Kurt,

Any idea how many ounces or amount of ceramic and pin media, per batch or cycle, weight of each?

I am ordering some ceramic from BACO and suspect I have been using too many pins per batch.

Thanks!

Tom

Sorry Tom just seen this post.

Tom I use a Frankford Arsenal tumbler. It has a larger barrel than the Tumblers Tumbler I can clean 150 plus cases per load if I want.

I just weight the media and it's 5 1/2 pounds in the barrel. That is a mix of ceramics and pins. I think I used a 1/2 bad of the 2# of pins in it. Not sure anymore.

If you use a mix you can always use one of these magnets to separate the pins from the ceramics.
https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Separat ... 30&sr=8-14
Also I have a screen that fits a 5 gallon bucket that has a 1/50 or 1/70 mesh, not sure anymore what is it, that will hold the pins from falling through so I don't loose any.
I been using this same stuff past 15 years ??? and it still does a fine job.


https://www.amazon.com/SE-Patented-Stac ... B008EWOL8I

Kurt: many thanks for those two links. Just ordered the screen and the magnet as utilizing a Nylon paint strainer does not work very well to separate the pins and the brass. Again, thanks. Cheers, rcN

Kurt,

can you post where you got the ceramic from???

thanks,

matt

Matt,

I'm not sure if I got it from Shiloh or Dave Maurer back in the early 20's maybe 05 or 06 and I'm still using the same stuff.

Kurt

ok, I will look them up!!

thanks Kurt!