Wet tumbling idea

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Marco B

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Has someone ever tried to use this "Pods" designed for laundry in a SS Tumbler?

I may give it a shot in my next batch. :D
 
Nope, I only use auto wash and wax as the wet tumbling cleaning agent. The wax impedes the return of tarnish, and the wax is on a microscopic level, as it cannot be seen or felt.
 
Im sure they would work fine however 1 pod is probably more than what is need unless you have a very large drum. I use about a teaspoon of wash and wax and 1/2 teaspoon lemishine.
 
..."Pods" designed for laundry...
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Are you referring to the packaged detergent for use in clothes washing?

Or the packaged detergent used in dish washing?

The laundry detergent will work fine. It will be hideously expensive and you will probably need to spend a lot more time than you expect rising of the residue.

I would recommend against the dish washer tablets. Many of them have chlorinating (or other halides) agents which are used now that added phosphates have been removed from most dishwashing detergents. These can promote future tarnishing unless they are thoroughly removed by repeated rinsing (more than three times) in hot water.
 
I remember when I got my F.A.R.T. it came with a packet of there cleaner. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. Now somewhere down the line, someone tried dawn and lemi-shine, and it worked. Then someone tried auto wash and that too worked. Now, who to say that a damn pod won't work?

Now, Marco B You are the new test dummy. Let us know how it works.

A long time ago I learned from some snot nosed kid that sometime us old geezers can't see the woods, cause all those damn trees are in the way.
 
lol I grew up poor as dirt in the Appalachian mountains and my Mom only had a container of Tide detergent under the counter. It was used for washing everything from dishes to clothes to mopping the floors

how soap works

http://www.planet-science.com/categ...1/06/soap---how-does-it-get-things-clean.aspx

I rarely wet clean these days using my F.A.R.T. as a dry rotary tumbler 75% to 80% of the time but when I do wet clean I have found almost any detergent will work, I just use it sparingly to reduce rinse time. Dollar store dish detergent works just fine
 
Why not? There have been posts about putting nearly everything imaginable in a tumbler to get pristine brass. It's a good thing to keep an open mind and "experiment" with reloading stuff, if not would we ever have found beer can matrial for gas checks? Or metal preserver for bullet lube? Or lanolin, or "nipple cream" for case lube? There's a bunch more stuff we use that isn't dedicated "reloading designed". Personally, when I wet tumbled I used plain water and got the shiny brass most are looking for...
 
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The only thing I would be concerned about is the amount of sudds one would have from a whole pod.
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That would be my concern as well. I think the pods are designed for a much larger volume of water than the small amount in your tumbler.

It's just gonna be too much soap.
 
The reason why someone will do that is simple.
You're drunk, its Sunday morning and I saw them on the shelf :D

Nonetheless, I'll know more about it in approx. two hours. :)
 
So long story short.

It comes out clean, shiny and it smells good. :D
At least until it got dried in the oven for about half an hour.

It didn't foam that much as I expected and it didn't harm the brass either.

When I ever run out of dish detergent, this can be used as a substitute.
But as others already stated, it raises the costs significant.

End result: Does it work? Yes - Does it make sense? Definitely NO :)
 
I'm using the Tumbler's B Tumbler & for small cleaning 50 cases I use the Harbor Freight single drum tumbler. Never tried waxes ,different liquids only what's recommended. I found Sun detergent works better then Dawn with a pinch of LemiShine.
 
FWIW; laundry detergent is much lower "sudsing" than dish detergent. Remember the videos on TV of a washing machine overflowing with suds? Dish washing detergent was used instead of laundry detergent...
 
It is the other way around, you get more suds from laundry detergent.

What ever you use it has to be a DETERGENT and not a soap, the soap will neutralize
the acid in Lemshine.
 
It is the other way around, you get more suds from laundry detergent
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. Nope. Laundry detergent/soap is kept low sudsing to work in machines. Dish soap for dishwashers is also low sudsing, because of use in machines, in a confined space, suds/foam will "overflow" the machine. Try it; put a half-3/4 cup of Dawn into your washing machine and turn it on (but you may have to mop the floor)...
 
Dawn & Sun is a dish detergent , not ment for dishwashing machines . I like Sun better then Dawn , pretty lame conversation . Just ask your wife , in this area they know better . Sorry to say.
 
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