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ohland Participating Member Offline Posts: 37 Joined: Dec 11^th, 2012	Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Sep 10^th, 2018 at 1:17pm	Print Post
	Surfing through the web, the Lortone QT-12 looks better built than the perennial Thumler Model B (High Speed). Poking about, the commercial grade C100-12 has a much beefier motor... and about twice or thrice the price... $640-ish for the C100-12... I think the QT-12 will do fine...


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18048 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #1 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 1:48pm	Print Post
	I have two wet rotary tumblers. One a fairly expensive model I bought used from an estate. The other a cheap Harbor Freight I gave less than $100 for. Both work equally well. I figured if the HF went bad, I could buy a bunch of them before I ever reached the expensive ones. I've had it over 5 years now, and it gets a lot of use.

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4465 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #2 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 3:36pm	Print Post
	I've had a $50 Midway vibratory for over 20 years (I have changed the walnut hulls twice I think) and can't imagine why I would want to use a wet rotary for brass. I do have a wet rotary tumbler that I used to use for rocks but it would never get used for brass. The media in the vibratory polishes the outside and cleans the inside (and primer pockets). I see guys use rotary tumblers with ceramic media (would you really take a grinder to your brass?) or the stainless steel thingies that peen the neck mouths (do you really want the necks peened?). Huh?


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GrumpyBear Full Member Offline Posts: 139 Location: Western,Pa. Joined: Sep 30^th, 2017	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #3 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 4:35pm	Print Post
	I have this one and like it a lot. Definitely does a better job on primer pockets than dry tumbling IMO. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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rgchristensen Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1188 Joined: Jan 2^nd, 2014	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #4 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 5:00pm	Print Post
	Back when I was still cleaning brass, I used walnut tumbling media and added a pound or so of 3d finishing nails, which seemed to clean the primer pockets and insides of the case OK. Now, I am OK with the brass being brown and run a bronze brush in the neck to clean out the inside. After about 50 shots out of a case, I found it necessary to clean the primer pocket. CHRIS RGChristensen


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marcusp323 Participating Member Offline Posts: 20 Location: Olympia Joined: Apr 21^st, 2018	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #5 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 5:37pm	Print Post
	Had Thumlers & Frankford Arsenal that I have used. Still using the FA (noisy, but out in the garage so who cares) for my wet tumbling. Got it for about $100 on sale, so when it goes, oh well. I use the Thumlers for lubing bullet jackets for swaging. Works great for me with a peanut butter jar & foam to hold it in place. The mouth on the FA is just too small for that. Mark


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18048 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #6 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 6:27pm	Print Post
	oneatatime wrote on Sep 10^th, 2018 at 3:36pm: I see guys use rotary tumblers with ceramic media (would you really take a grinder to your brass?) or the stainless steel thingies that peen the neck mouths (do you really want the necks peened?). Huh? Chauncey, I've used nothing but ceramic media in my wet rotary tumbler, and I have no idea how many times some of the brass has been cleaned. Never lost a case. But to answer the question. No I wouldn't use a grinder on my brass, but wet ceramic media is hardly a grinder.

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JWDreamstone Participating Member Offline Posts: 37 Location: Long Branch, New Jersey Joined: Oct 11^th, 2017	Re: Looking for good wet rotary case tumbler Reply #7 - Sep 10^th, 2018 at 6:27pm	Print Post
	i have several commercial tumblers. I have 2 commercial Ct100 as well. the advantage they never go bad. Most Loader By Cheap tumblers, . there not a long term Item i am using My first lortone QT12 going on 30 years You can,t go wrong with lortone , Thumler, Covington, Or diamond pacific i tumble rocks as well as cases


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