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Works Great!
Works great! Started short washing collected range brass to eliminate the crud. Then I deprive and prep before foing a full wash with pins. Comes out super bright, just be sure to rinse really well and heat dry if possible. Get a gold panning screen that fits into a 5 gal pail with 1/32 stainless steel mesh screen to catch the pins when emptying hthe barrel. Also recommend the Franklin or a harbor freight magnet with release to pick up/out the pins. YouTube has plenty of wash formulas, I like the 1 tbs limonsihine, 1 tbs dawn and really hot water. Not super quiet but not as loud as vibratory tumbler and seems to work better, with the pins, than an ultrasonic and cleaner (like hornadys). Plus you can load a bunch of cases at one time but watch those 9mm/40/45 cases nesting into one another. Definitely sort before the final cleaning, after all the lead dust is gone. Funny how some cases, even rifle, fit so well between calibers.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: theroostsports
Needs Improvement
Tightening the lids enough to make them water tight required considerable effort, they need to supply a wrench of some sort or change the design. Effort required nearly makes system more trouble than it is worth.
Found it necessary to place rubber bands on the drive wheels to create enough friction to turn tumbler.
Other than that, tumbler works as claimed but I am very disappointed with these two flaws.Read full review
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Great product, wish I bought it years ago and stopped dry tumbling
Great product. Saw it was on sale, about 40% off the normal going rate.
I've been tumbling brass with walnut media for years, but got tired of all the hazardous dust when tumbling. Wet tumbling is better in every way, you just wash the water and all the hazardous debris down the drain.
This tumbler works SO MUCH quicker than dry tumbling. I've had good results with just water/soap of your choice/lemishine combo, with or without stainless pins. Pins will make the brass look BRAND NEW but you need to separate pins from the brass afterward.
For less hassle, I tend to not use the pins. Brass still comes out looking good and clean enough... however not as clean on the inside as with the pins. I love the adjustable timer and auto-shut off. I run either 1 hour with pins, or 2 with no pins.
Highly recommend, especially at this price....and after having used it, I'd pay full price knowing the benefits. Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: dasmol2017
A Great Tumbler For Tumbling 1000 Rounds of 223 / 5.56 Brass!!!
Just started tumbling my own brass and couldn't pass up the price! I de-primed 1000 rounds of a mix of 5.56 and 223 dirty old tarnished brass. I loaded the brass into the tumbler, added a few drops of Dawn soap, added the little bitty stainless steel pins that came with the tumbler, a teaspoon on Lemishine, (I have hard water,) then topped it off with tap water. Yes, I know, distilled water is recommended, but I didn't have any. Anyways, after 3 hours, my dirty old brass looked like factory brass after rinsing and removing the pins!!! The primer pockets were clean and I'm very happy with my first tumbler! It's a pain getting all of those little pins out of the brass, so right now I'm tumbling another thousand rounds of de-primed 223 and 5.56 with out the pins and I'll see how things look. Buy it!!!Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: unitedoutdoors
Frankford Arsenal Rotary Tumbler
Been reloading for nearly fifty years. Never had a system that cleaned brass so thoroughly. Some have stated their dis-satisfaction with the small pins, but they do an excellent job inside of the cases as well as the primer pockets and flash holes. I use a five gallon bucket to shake the pins into as well as rinse them for storage. The water is easily poured off leaving the pins behind in the bucket. This is a great product. I have already recommended it to my brother who is also an avid reloader. Five stars across the board for this one.Read full review
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Good unit with only one problem
I found this tumbler to be an outstanding unit with the only drawback being the supplied stainless steel media. This media appears to be the smaller diameter 0.041 - 0.042 size and will often be found wedged into the flash holes of the cleaned cases, requiring removal with tweezers. I opted to avoid this problem by ordering 5lbs of stainless steel pins from another source, these pins being sized at 0.047 - 0.048 in diameter, a size that completely eliminated any pins wedging themselves into the flash holes while still doing an outstanding job of cleaning the brass. This is a minor annoyance and does not distract from the actual unit being reviewed, specifically the rotary tumbler. All in all I found it to be an excellent system that works as described and produces cleaned brass that appear factory new. It does take a bit of time to find the proper amount of cleaning and polishing agents to add but once you get to that 'sweet spot' each and every load will come out perfectly. I personally find that no more than 1 tbsp of Dawn dishwashing liquid plus one cap full of Armoral wash and wax plus just about a quarter of a teaspoon of citric acid seems to be what works for me but I'm sure others have their own formulae that work for them.Read full review
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Gets cases really clean.
Many people have told me that cases don't need to be very clean, just enough that your dies don't get scratched from grit. Well, there's something about cases that look brand new that just appeals to me. It's worth the extra money and time. This thing works well. I've cleaned about 800 9mm cases and 600 .308 so far. I like how many cases I can clean at one time with this setup.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: theroostsports
Great Cleaner.
Does a beautiful job cleaning brass using dish soap, detergent booster and the supplied stainless steel pins. Down side is the caps are hard to tighten but they sell FART wrenches on eBay to solve that problem and you will need a good screen to strain the pins out of the water, they are quit small and the optional magnet is a nice plus.Read full review
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Sturdy and effective, but noisy
I have several vibratory tumblers and a smaller, round-interior barrel tumbler, but none get my metal both as clean and shiny as quickly as this one does! The build is very sturdy, the barrel being especially well-designed and manufactured of heavy plastic with a thick rubber liner. The tolerances allow me to easily attach and remove the end cap retainer rings without fear of mis-threading them. That said, it's not all peaches and cream, being easily the noisiest of all my tumblers. The others can be noisy, but their sound can be muted with a towel, carpet scrap, or other cushioning mat underneath. One this one, the motor and or drive assembly itself makes most of the noise, so there's no way around it. I am tumbling my own bronze castings, not spent cartridges, and the sample solution that came with the device made all my red brass and silicon bronze bits come out copper-colored! They were all shiny, but pink, not yellow, as I had expected. I suppose this is a feature of the solution that would not concern shooters, and one that I should be able to solve by experimenting with different solutions. It is also so powerful that it bent some of my pieces, which has never happened in any other machine. Nothing I can't fix with pliers or a mallet, but not expected either!Read full review
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Best Tumbler on the market
After researching the best ways to clean brass. I found Franklin Arsenal Platinum Tumbler reviews to be impressive and decided to purchase. It comes with everything you need to start tight out of the box, just add your brass. After tumbling my first batch I was very satisfied and impressed. My brass looked like brand new.
Its quick and efficient. I did a thousand casings in 2 hours.
I would definitely recommend this Tumbler.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: ohyasales
CLEANEST BRASS THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN!
THIS BRASS CLEANER WORKS MUCH BETTER THAN THE VIBRATOR TYPE. IT REALLY CLEANS THE INSIDE OF THE BRASS CASES AND THEIR PRIMER POCKET INCLUDING THE FLASH HOLES. A LITTLE MESSY SEPERATING THE STAINLESS STEEL PINS BUT WELL WORTH IT. CLEAN BRASS IS A MUST BUT REAL CLEAN BRASS SHOOTS CONSISTANTLY.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: new • Sold by: oy-goldrecovery