Dillon 550 .223 brass prep - Swage It, RT1200 trimmer, M die

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Walnut in vibratory here. I used to put lidless tumbler outside for the last hour to evacuate most of the dust. Now I just run it outside with no lid the entire time. Almost no dust when finished.....

What tumbler is that? I’m moving back toward walnut from pins. Thinking about a Dillon tumbler for its size, because my current one is waaaaaaay too small.

[markm]

What tumbler is that? I’m moving back toward walnut from pins. Thinking about a Dillon tumbler for its size, because my current one is waaaaaaay too small.

You need one that has the dome shape where the sides come up past vertical and leave a smaller opening than the bowl width. The vertical wall ones like Dillons will spit media everywhere.

[Wormydog1724]

What tumbler is that? I’m moving back toward walnut from pins. Thinking about a Dillon tumbler for its size, because my current one is waaaaaaay too small.

I use the big Lyman with AutoFlo feature. If you use the medium grit walnut and swirl the brass around with your hand as you're draining, you can get rid of nearly everything out of the deprimed cases.

If you use the coarser walnut/corn cob then you might still have to manually dump each case.

I switched to the medium grit and noticed my brass was very dusty and not shiny. I did the dryer sheets, I did the paper towels. Nothing seemed to clean up the media.

So I washed it. Washed it with dawn dish soap in one of those cloth grocery bags. Washed all of the fine particulates out.

Let it hang dry for a few days outside while trying to swirl it around, so it got plenty of air.

Now it cleans and polishes almost as good as corn cob, no dust, no debris, no media in flash holes.

I know, I'm weird.

[markm]

I know, I'm weird.

I tried washing media once too before I got SS media systems. But I didn't have a decent system, and it got too messy.

[m1a_scoutguy]

I have used a mix of red walnut and the treated green corn cob for years,I use 1/3 of the red and 2/3 of the green. These are both Lyman products. Yea they cost a bit more than standard corn or plain anything but I feel its well worth the extra $$. it cleans great,shines great and doesn't get dusty till forever.I have the Lyman big tumbler,its bigger than the 1200,I'll have to go look. It works fine for my needs. The whole SS pins and water,then drying,etc,etc,,,not for me. I'm going to the range not the gun show,LOL

[MegademiC]

I get like 4k pieces
Decap
Tumble
Dump media
Resize
Trim
Tumble w/fresh media

Then load smaller batches from here
Prime/throat wedge (just the tip)
Powder
Seat
Crimp

[Wormydog1724]

I have used a mix of red walnut and the treated green corn cob for years,I use 1/3 of the red and 2/3 of the green. These are both Lyman products. Yea they cost a bit more than standard corn or plain anything but I feel its well worth the extra $$. it cleans great,shines great and doesn't get dusty till forever.I have the Lyman big tumbler,its bigger than the 1200,I'll have to go look. It works fine for my needs. The whole SS pins and water,then drying,etc,etc,,,not for me. I'm going to the range not the gun show,LOL

Same! I want to pull them from the tumbler and load.

My brother tumbles with SS. At first he was leaving it all night, running ALL NIGHT. I do that with Dry but he soon realized with SS that was too much. Super duper clean, but his chamfer/debur was completely gone and he was scraping copper as he was seating bullets. Wondered why his groups were all over the place. duh doy.

[markm]

Couple of things..

1. The SS media for me is more of a lead residue and filth removal that suspends the fouling in water. I run 2 hour loads for clean brass... shiny is sometimes the result on once fired brass, but after that they don't come out THAT sparkly.

2. That red media from lyman can leave the rouge inside your brass. It is very abrasive, and I think Sinister, here, had a barrel that was damaged from leaving that red rouge in the cases. I do have the lyman tumbler and rouge media, but quit using it quickly when I could see the inside of my brass was still red, AND how shiny the brass was. I could tell that stuff was too abrasive to risk leaving in the cases.

[m1a_scoutguy]

Couple of things..

1. The SS media for me is more of a lead residue and filth removal that suspends the fouling in water. I run 2 hour loads for clean brass... shiny is sometimes the result on once fired brass, but after that they don't come out THAT sparkly.

2. That red media from lyman can leave the rouge inside your brass. It is very abrasive, and I think Sinister, here, had a barrel that was damaged from leaving that red rouge in the cases. I do have the lyman tumbler and rouge media, but quit using it quickly when I could see the inside of my brass was still red, AND how shiny the brass was. I could tell that stuff was too abrasive to risk leaving in the cases.

markm it would be interesting to know if he used straight red or a mix. I know it can be nasty stuff so that's why the 1/3 & 2/3 mix. I have never noticed any red dust/residue on the cases but have some in the tumbler right now that need to be dumped out so I will go check and report back. I ran it the other night while I was out so it went about 3 hours which is way more than I normally need to run this mix,they look new! Yea I know the SS clean the inside and primer pockets but I could care about either,yea the primer pocket would be nice but no biggy for me,depending on what its for I will hit it most of the time but never on pistol brass.

[markm]

markm it would be interesting to know if he used straight red or a mix. I know it can be nasty stuff so that's why the 1/3 & 2/3 mix

Pretty sure he and I both messed with the full throttle red. That stuff blew me away.. it makes brass shine brighter than SS media for sure.

So you can trim prior to re-size?