Frankford ArsenalPlatinum Series Rotary Tumbler Lite with Clear Viewing Window and Leakproof Seal for Cleaning and Polishing During Reloading

Great purchase. Add some lemishine and some dawn dish detergent and my brass is coming out like brand new. I put folded up shamis on each side, under the tumbler to reduce noise and vibration, since I have close neighbors lol. Other than that, this is working flawlessly

I am not a high volume reloader so this size is perfect for me. First batch was about 100 deprimed 223 and 30 30-06 casings. I added the pins (2 Lb container), the brass, filled the drum to the base of the neck with hot water and added a healthy squirt of Dawn and 1 CC of Lemishine powder (Walmart top shelf in dish soap isle). Made sure the lid was on tight and let it tumble for a little over two hours. I put the whole unit into the laundry room tub which reduced the noise in the rest of the house. I had also purchased the media screen for dumping the water and rinsing the brass while still in the drum.. I already had a Frankford Arsenal media separator. Dumped the drum into the media separator and all of the pins fell to the bottom.. I purchased the magnet pick up tool. It is definitely worth the purchase price. Dumped the clean brass on a towel and the pins onto a paper towel. Let everything dry over night. The brass looks like new! I used a universal decapper to remove the primers. For the best looking handloads, resize before tumbling. If you are doing military brass, swage the primer pockets before tumbling. For dirty range pickup brass you may need to do a short tumble to remove dirt and grit before sizing.. By getting as much preliminary work out of the way before tumbling, the resulting finished loads will look like factory new loads. Right now, it is still late winter/early spring and the relative humidity in the house is below 50% so drying on a towel works OK. The next morning I used the magnet to pick up the dry pins and drop them into the dried drum. I am actively looking for a used dehydrator at the thrift stores so that as the humidity rises in the warm months, I can successfully dry the brass in a reasonable amount of time. So far, I am very pleased with my purchase and glad I bought the extras.

Great product, worth the money... But I wouldn't buy the more expensive one that has the timer and shut off. If you don't have a clock maybe this one's not for you.

MY husband bought this for me as a Christmas present. The brass is super shiny looks new. Easy set up, you do have to make sure seal is flat and lid is screwed on tight. No leaks and not too terribly noisy. I am cleaning every dirty caliber I have. This is 100% better than dry tumblin Great price perfect for my needs.

I bought this in addition to ma growing reloading equipment. I decided to try it out on 750 9mm Luger from the range. I did use Franklin arsenal cleaning pack for this run and only ran it for 30 mins with 2 lbs of pins and all the brass came out looking like new with only a few that had a little carbon still in the case. By a few I'm saying about 10 or 15. If you want all carbon off run it for 45 mins and it should be squeaky clean. The only gripe I have is the lid has a convenient loop that you can use as a handle to carry it but if you do this with a fully loaded bucket it flexes and cause a minor leak. I just had to unscrew and rescrew the lid to fix.

This tumbler works well after modification. Fill it full of shells, hot water, stainless pins, and dawn dish soap. I did add a baffle inside as i found the shells were just sliding around the outside and not tumbling. I feel they could mold that into the original design and save us the hassle of making it ourselves. I just googled this tumbler and found someone with that posted the fix and plans to fix it. Once that modification was performed, it works flawlessly. 2 hours and brass is shiny and like new.

I used to use an ultrasonic cleaner, but was limited to about 100 cases and while the carbon residue was mostly gone, the brass remained dull. Also, we have VERY hard water here, so I had to buy filtered water. It became a real pain to use, so I got the Frankford Tumbler. I've done 500 .45 cases in one batch. They were old and had been used many times and looked old. After 30-45 minutes, I removed the brass - Ooo! Shiny!Just don't overload it. It is a tumble cleaner and if the is too much in there, the contents do not tumble properly. That means water as well as brass. Also, if you reload different calibers, don't mix them in the tumbler. The smaller cases end up inside the larger cases and neither gets as clean as it should. It is better if you can deprime first, but for most reloaders, that is not very workable.