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**44 AMP** · January 3, 2007, 11:01 PM

Tumble before or after deprime/resize? I do both. I tumble my brass before sizing, and again after (to remove lube). It does clean the primer pickets some.

Yes, the media does plug up the flash hole. I just poke/clean it out with a small piece of wire, a blowgun dart (don't ask), sometimes a horseshoe nail. I do this as I inspect/sort brass. I don't use one of the fancy media separators, I use a plastic bucket and a plastic colander (for draining pasta), both bought in the grocery store, for about $3 (local).

Just dump the tumbler into the colander (which sits in the top of the pail), and shake a little. Media drops through, leaving the brass. Dump the media out of the cases as you pick them up, check headstamp, poke media out of primer pocket, and drop in appropriate box for later reloading. When finished, pour the bucket of media back into the tumbler. The whole thing is harder to describe than to do.

January 3, 2007, 11:01 PM	#5
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 28,832	Either way Tumble before or after deprime/resize? I do both. I tumble my brass before sizing, and again after (to remove lube). It does clean the primer pickets some. Yes, the media does plug up the flash hole. I just poke/clean it out with a small piece of wire, a blowgun dart (don't ask), sometimes a horseshoe nail. I do this as I inspect/sort brass. I don't use one of the fancy media separators, I use a plastic bucket and a plastic colander (for draining pasta), both bought in the grocery store, for about $3 (local). Just dump the tumbler into the colander (which sits in the top of the pail), and shake a little. Media drops through, leaving the brass. Dump the media out of the cases as you pick them up, check headstamp, poke media out of primer pocket, and drop in appropriate box for later reloading. When finished, pour the bucket of media back into the tumbler. The whole thing is harder to describe than to do. __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.