Last year I bought a Thumler model B tumbler and like it a lot . Shortly after I got it I was told how adding things to the walnut like New-Finish wax would really help . After a month or two the lid got hard to install like the studs were to short ? Come to find out the tub liner was growing and to the point I could no longer put the lid on . Ended up buying a new liner ?
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Thumler tumbler ?
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ShootistPRS
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I never use wax products in my media. Wax products typically use alcohol as a solvent which causes the rubber to expand and get brittle. It also leaves a wax residue on the cases and that acts as a lubricant in the chamber. Neither is good in the long run.
I do add a silver polish paste (1 teaspoon) to the media but it is water based. It contains a corrosion inhibitor but no wax or other lubricant. I only add the polish one time and use that media until it takes more than an hour to clean the brass. Then I replace it with new media and a teaspoon of polish. I wash the old media and dry it for future use. It lasts a long time.
I do add a silver polish paste (1 teaspoon) to the media but it is water based. It contains a corrosion inhibitor but no wax or other lubricant. I only add the polish one time and use that media until it takes more than an hour to clean the brass. Then I replace it with new media and a teaspoon of polish. I wash the old media and dry it for future use. It lasts a long time.
Keybear, you never asked a question, but posted a statement. The question mark doesn't turn your words into a question. Not picking on ya, just letting you know we cant help if you don't present a question properly.
My first thought... why use a sealed tumbler for dry tumbling? Best to use those for wet/stainless pin tumbling and reserve the wax and polish stuff for a vibratory tumbler.
I like the thumbler tumbler... works awesome for rock polishing (as designed for) and makes a good wet brass tumbler too. Hope this helps.
My first thought... why use a sealed tumbler for dry tumbling? Best to use those for wet/stainless pin tumbling and reserve the wax and polish stuff for a vibratory tumbler.
I like the thumbler tumbler... works awesome for rock polishing (as designed for) and makes a good wet brass tumbler too. Hope this helps.
I have never wet tumbled and never will . I like shooting not washing brass . I bought the Thumler Tumbler because it runs very nice .
I have the Thumler 45 and #10, The large one is designed for 1,000 30/06 cases or 45 pounds of media and cases. Again, I use tumbling media and nothing, For the worst of cases I use vinegar once for the life of the case, when I use vinegar I use vinegar and nothing, I know it is cute to add lime shine, salt etc but for me if anything worked better than 5%+/- vinegar I could not stand it. Before that I use some stuff that was designed to prickle cases; that process turned cases black.
I limit the time factor in vinegar to 15 minutes, that would be for the life of the case.
F. Guffey
The rubber liner also collects and bonds to molybdenum disulfide. I got my Thumbler B when moly coating of bullets was a new thing, and found the rubber was like a great moly eraser and just cleaned the coating off the bullets faster than it went onto them. I suppose there may be a saturation point, but I never found it. Instead, Thumbler came out with a separate plastic liner that didn't interact with anything. Call and see if you can still buy one of those, then you can use whatever chemicals you want in it. The lid seal will still be Neoprene and will absorb some, but you can even cut out a sheet of 4-6 mil polyethylene drop cloth and put holes in for the cover screws and protect the rubber lid seal with that over top of it. It should still squeeze up against the plastic liner well enough to seal it.
The reason they sell rubber as standard is people tumbling rocks need it. The plastic would be destroyed by rocks and abrasives.
Keybear,
Regarding the question marks, I'm not really trying to be rude. It's just about promoting clarity of communication, which is what rule 4 of the forum rules about. You're not rising to the level of violating that rule with your extraneous question marks and spaces in front of periods, because we can still work out what you meant to say, despite them. But it is despite them. They do reduce reading ease, and they merely need to be left out. Less work, not more.
Salvadore,
Neoprene will absorb any solvent that can eventually dissolve it. Toluene, ketones, paraffins (including kerosene and gasoline and mineral spirits), turpentine, and any form of benzene. These are what are called aromatic hydrocarbons. Also included, but mostly banned now, are chlorinated solvents like tri-chlor and even some of the old freons. Look on your polish ingredients for hydrocarbons. See if the stuff smells like oil or other garage compounds. If so, you probably want to avoid it.
The reason they sell rubber as standard is people tumbling rocks need it. The plastic would be destroyed by rocks and abrasives.
Keybear,
Regarding the question marks, I'm not really trying to be rude. It's just about promoting clarity of communication, which is what rule 4 of the forum rules about. You're not rising to the level of violating that rule with your extraneous question marks and spaces in front of periods, because we can still work out what you meant to say, despite them. But it is despite them. They do reduce reading ease, and they merely need to be left out. Less work, not more.
Salvadore,
Neoprene will absorb any solvent that can eventually dissolve it. Toluene, ketones, paraffins (including kerosene and gasoline and mineral spirits), turpentine, and any form of benzene. These are what are called aromatic hydrocarbons. Also included, but mostly banned now, are chlorinated solvents like tri-chlor and even some of the old freons. Look on your polish ingredients for hydrocarbons. See if the stuff smells like oil or other garage compounds. If so, you probably want to avoid it.