The blue cap is so that the bolt doesn't poke through during shipping. Also a bit of advice from an older guy with high lead in his blood :) You should place the tumbler outside your home, the dust that comes out of the tumbler is very toxic and inhaling it over the years is very bad for you. Best of luck. Nice video too.
Good video. I am reluctant to buy anything I haven't seen working, so, thanks! (I did notice you figured out that you put the retaining nut on upside down and corrected it somewhere along the line). Gonna go place my order now. Just a little tip, I've always been funny about the possibility of not catching media that may be stuck in a casing (not just the flash hole) and ran an air line from my compressor to my bench to give each cartridge a short blast before I deprime and size.
Blue cap is to stop the spindle from poking thru the box during shipping..... like the little table on your pizza saves the cheese from sticking to the lid.....
hey howdy, snagged a used Lyman 3200 turbo tumbler/vibrator off ebay for $60. Tossing 308 WIN cases with ground walnut shell media from Petco, sold as Terrarium base. Much cheaper than from a sporting goods store. After 3 hours it yielded a decent moderate cleaning. To speed it up I added 1/2 cup of pure white aluminum oxide abrasive used in sand blasting firearms for Cerakote ceramic coatings. Only took an hour to get 300 bright shiny cases, o-o-o-o-h! . The Lyman Turbo 3200 can't be found anywhere but occasionally on ebay and used. Must have stop making them. They have a self draining system with a wide plug that separates the cases from the media when finished..
Liked your video. However, dry tumbling fired brass inside your home has to be delt with cautiously. You are dealing with toxic material including lead. Some of which goes airborne with the media dust. This is why all my brass gets decapped in the garage, then wet tumbled. Adds more to the process of cleaning. I look at it like this : wet tumbling is for cleaning and dry (which I also do) is for polishing. This way I never have to deal with that toxic sludge in the house, which is where I reload. Actually, I wanted to get this message out to new reloads, not just you. Stay safe.
I picked up a Lee Progressive 1000 3 stage press. It is easy as eating pie to use, and I will have a video review of that up in a few days if you want to check it out. I think you can pick the Lee presses up for around $200-$300 US Dollars. You will also want a scale to measure your load weights in grains. Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great day!
i have this tumbler and media, works like a freaking champ! only thing that sucks is it dont have a on/off switch. also i added a cap of zinc BBs and airsoft BBs and they really polish the crap out of brass.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to install a line switch to the cord. Keep it close to the machine so that you don't have to move too far to activate it. I have been running the same unit for about 8 years. Makes too much racket. Lined the lid with some coated 1.5 inch insulation and it helped. I shoot a lot so I keep 2 running at the same time. My second unit is made by Tumble Company. However it cost 4 times as much. When it runs it whispers. All steel construction with a thick enamel paint and heavy duty motor. Well worth the price. The difference is much the same as comparing a Yugo with a Lamborghini. Oh it came with an on off switch.
LOL. I had some bloopers in that video believe it or not, but I choose to leave them out because there were a few "mom jokes" about being cheap and easy and they were a bit tasteless so I opted out. LOL. Thanks for watching!
I have the same tumbler and agree that it sucks not having an on/off switch. And looks like you have a lee load master? I had one and gave me nothing but problems, especially how the priming mechanism works, I got about half primed cases, and 1/4 upside down primers and 1/4 no primers, I hated it. Bought a hornady lock and load progressive and love it. There isn't a piece of plastic on it besides the powder holder, whereas the lee is made of mostly plastic. Only thing I will buy from lee is their dies but most just their factory crimp dies, I like the rcbs and hornady dies, seem better made to me
The polishing media actually gets stuck in the flash hole and is a pain in the ass to take it out. I have a machine I use now to do it. A Lyman case prep machine makes primer pockets clean and uniform, so I don't rely on the tumbler for this.
i just got one of these and my only gripe is the green media stains it after its used and its not as thick a plastic as i would like its also a matt finish not polished but appart from that it seems awesome
*impressed with quality. my unit came 🔎🔍 **allabout.wiki/Lyman** with a pound or so of what looks like stainless steel shot and more importantly a spare o-ring for the access hatch and a toothed-belt for the motor-drum drive. Nice touch.the drum and base are both larger than I expected and heavy.the materials and build quality seem good to very good.it's been running on the slowest speed for the last couple of hours with2 pounds or so of my steel parts to be deburred,4 pounds or so of 1" ceramic stars andwater with a little bit of dawn soapfilled to 1/2 the drum volume.I weighed the drum half filled with the previous mentioned items and it came out a little under 9 **pounds.like**: I like the way the drum hatch gets locked.the robustness of the build and motor.con: no instructions that I can see on how to work the base dials/controls, but I got it running by just turning the knobs.grin.not sure if the timer is on or what the 1/0 switch does (it's not on/off to the motor), timer use maybe ??I'll have another look in the box for the instructions or maybe on line .... this is not a big enough of an issue to take rating stars off my initial 5 star rating.update 10.1.2017: ran it 24hrs/day for 4 days straight with 4 different batches of parts and it worked without issues. My a36 steel parts came out as expected with a nice even finish.BTW not mentioned but as I state in the previous line, I've been running it without a 'timer' limit. I suspect the '1/0' switch when switched to '0' disables the timer ... however I got it to work this way, it's the way I wanted, so I can run it overnight without a 3hr reset of the timer.*
I found my press on eBay back when reloading presses were impossible to find. Check MidwayUSA, also check OpticsPlanet and Cabelas. Good luck my friend!
I have a very easy answer to your question. I run a Lee Progressive 1000 reloading press, and the way it works in chronological order is clean your brass first, then deprime, and resize then powder then crimp and in that order. Check out the review on the Lee Progressive 1000 to understand what I mean. It makes more sense using this particular press to tumble your brass first when using this particular press. Thanks for watching!
Keep on tapping your brass against the steel rod that holds down the lid and you will damage the fine threads on it you also wreck the mouth of the cartridge you put dings in it
Hi mate, nice vid. I recommend to not use the tumbler on loading bench. Vibrations can charge statics on gunpowder stored in the dropper or even braking it in smaller particles causing overcharges and high pressures. VERY DANGEROUS. I'm not a safety nazi but that's really tangible a risk. I bought this press today and I love it!
I have one of the older 1200 Turbo Classic tumbler from 30 years ago and it is still running fine. It has a solid non slotted lid and a on/off switch. Strange thing is I paid over $100 and 30 years later they cost much less.
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The blue cap is so that the bolt doesn't poke through during shipping. Also a bit of advice from an older guy with high lead in his blood :) You should place the tumbler
outside your home, the dust that comes out of the tumbler is very toxic and inhaling it over the years is very bad for you. Best of luck. Nice video too.
Good video. I am reluctant to buy anything I haven't seen working, so, thanks! (I did notice you figured out that you put the retaining nut on upside down and corrected it somewhere along the line). Gonna go place my order now. Just a little tip, I've always been funny about the possibility of not catching media that may be stuck in a casing (not just the flash hole) and ran an air line from my compressor to my bench to give each cartridge a short blast before I deprime and size.
Blue cap is to stop the spindle from poking thru the box during shipping..... like the little table on your pizza saves the cheese from sticking to the lid.....
hey howdy, snagged a used Lyman 3200 turbo tumbler/vibrator off ebay for $60. Tossing 308 WIN cases with ground walnut shell media from Petco, sold as Terrarium base. Much cheaper than from a sporting goods store. After 3 hours it yielded a decent moderate cleaning. To speed it up I added 1/2 cup of pure white aluminum oxide abrasive used in sand blasting firearms for Cerakote ceramic coatings. Only took an hour to get 300 bright shiny cases, o-o-o-o-h! . The Lyman Turbo 3200 can't be found anywhere but occasionally on ebay and used. Must have stop making them. They have a self draining system with a wide plug that separates the cases from the media when finished..
Liked your video. However, dry tumbling fired brass inside your home has to be delt with cautiously. You are dealing with toxic material including lead. Some of which goes airborne with the media dust. This is why all my brass gets decapped in the garage, then wet tumbled. Adds more to the process of cleaning. I look at it like this : wet tumbling is for cleaning and dry (which I also do) is for polishing. This way I never have to deal with that toxic sludge in the house, which is where I reload. Actually, I wanted to get this message out to new reloads, not just you. Stay safe.
I love the shake the hell out of it. Great review Ken.
I have this tumbler, and it didnt come with media, but i got a box of 10 lbs of untreated media, ive had it awhile, going to try it in the AM
I picked up a Lee Progressive 1000 3 stage press. It is easy as eating pie to use, and I will have a video review of that up in a few days if you want to check it out. I think you can pick the Lee presses up for around $200-$300 US Dollars. You will also want a scale to measure your load weights in grains. Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great day!
i have this tumbler and media, works like a freaking champ! only thing that sucks is it dont have a on/off switch. also i added a cap of zinc BBs and airsoft BBs and they really polish the crap out of brass.
Adding BBs to the media mix could prove to be a great idea. I'm going to try that next time I polish brass. That is a good idea. Thanks for sharing!
It doesn't take a lot of effort to install a line switch to the cord. Keep it close to the machine so that you don't have to move too far to activate it. I have been running the same unit for about 8 years. Makes too much racket. Lined the lid with some coated 1.5 inch insulation and it helped. I shoot a lot so I keep 2 running at the same time. My second unit is made by Tumble Company. However it cost 4 times as much. When it runs it whispers. All steel construction with a thick enamel paint and heavy duty motor. Well worth the price. The difference is much the same as comparing a Yugo with a Lamborghini. Oh it came with an on off switch.
You are very welcome my friend. Good luck on getting started! Thanks for watching!
Holly cow, that thing is loud! Guess I won't be doing that in my apartment...
LOL. I had some bloopers in that video believe it or not, but I choose to leave them out because there were a few "mom jokes" about being cheap and easy and they were a bit tasteless so I opted out. LOL. Thanks for watching!
I have the same tumbler and agree that it sucks not having an on/off switch. And looks like you have a lee load master? I had one and gave me nothing but problems, especially how the priming mechanism works, I got about half primed cases, and 1/4 upside down primers and 1/4 no primers, I hated it. Bought a hornady lock and load progressive and love it. There isn't a piece of plastic on it besides the powder holder, whereas the lee is made of mostly plastic. Only thing I will buy from lee is their dies but most just their factory crimp dies, I like the rcbs and hornady dies, seem better made to me
Don't you typically remove your spent primers before you polish? I'd of thought that would clear the flash hole as well....
The polishing media actually gets stuck in the flash hole and is a pain in the ass to take it out. I have a machine I use now to do it. A Lyman case prep machine makes primer pockets clean and uniform, so I don't rely on the tumbler for this.
Corn cob bird litter will work great and save some money compared to the lynman stuff. I bought 25 pounds for around $8 at walmart.
i just got one of these and my only gripe is the green media stains it after its used and its not as thick a plastic as i would like its also a matt finish not polished but appart from that it seems awesome
The top rubber cap went in the wrong way but mysteriously was right way up when you come back to check later.
*impressed with quality. my unit came 🔎🔍 **allabout.wiki/Lyman** with a pound or so of what looks like stainless steel shot and more importantly a spare o-ring for the access hatch and a toothed-belt for the motor-drum drive. Nice touch.the drum and base are both larger than I expected and heavy.the materials and build quality seem good to very good.it's been running on the slowest speed for the last couple of hours with2 pounds or so of my steel parts to be deburred,4 pounds or so of 1" ceramic stars andwater with a little bit of dawn soapfilled to 1/2 the drum volume.I weighed the drum half filled with the previous mentioned items and it came out a little under 9 **pounds.like**: I like the way the drum hatch gets locked.the robustness of the build and motor.con: no instructions that I can see on how to work the base dials/controls, but I got it running by just turning the knobs.grin.not sure if the timer is on or what the 1/0 switch does (it's not on/off to the motor), timer use maybe ??I'll have another look in the box for the instructions or maybe on line .... this is not a big enough of an issue to take rating stars off my initial 5 star rating.update 10.1.2017: ran it 24hrs/day for 4 days straight with 4 different batches of parts and it worked without issues. My a36 steel parts came out as expected with a nice even finish.BTW not mentioned but as I state in the previous line, I've been running it without a 'timer' limit. I suspect the '1/0' switch when switched to '0' disables the timer ... however I got it to work this way, it's the way I wanted, so I can run it overnight without a 3hr reset of the timer.*
thanks a lot for all the info's bro'
I found my press on eBay back when reloading presses were impossible to find. Check MidwayUSA, also check OpticsPlanet and Cabelas. Good luck my friend!
I have a very easy answer to your question. I run a Lee Progressive 1000 reloading press, and the way it works in chronological order is clean your brass first, then deprime, and resize then powder then crimp and in that order. Check out the review on the Lee Progressive 1000 to understand what I mean. It makes more sense using this particular press to tumble your brass first when using this particular press. Thanks for watching!
Keep on tapping your brass against the steel rod that holds down the lid and you will damage the fine threads on it you also wreck the mouth of the cartridge you put dings in it
interesting ...i need to start to reloading a.s.a.p
suggestions were to shop bro..?
Very good review. Thanks for that. BTW, you're very creepy in a giving out candy from a van kind of way. ;) Either way, subscribed.
Hi mate, nice vid. I recommend to not use the tumbler on loading bench. Vibrations can charge statics on gunpowder stored in the dropper or even braking it in smaller particles causing overcharges and high pressures. VERY DANGEROUS.
I'm not a safety nazi but that's really tangible a risk.
I bought this press today and I love it!
51 usd plus tax...😂 here in France it cost 3 times this price. Lucky Americans!
single stage as beginner..:)
Have the same tumbler...… 3 yrs old & approx. 8500 pieces of brass cleaned..... motor failure …. disappointed in service life.
I have one of the older 1200 Turbo Classic tumbler from 30 years ago and it is still running fine. It has a solid non slotted lid and a on/off switch. Strange thing is I paid over $100 and 30 years later they cost much less.