There really is a Santa Clause

[Jaybm]

Matches those pink handguns !

Jim

[donhuff]

Jim,

That was suppose to be a secret!

[donhuff]

man I love this new SS pin tumbler. It gets the brass so danged clean it looks like new brass. I am even getting out brass that I have had stored which was already polished. And running it through the pin tumbler to get the insides and primer pockets clean.

I got another 5 lbs of pins and added to the drum. It does seem to get them clean a little faster. The best thing is that you can do a lot of brass at one time and it still does not take to long. All that 45 brass in the picture was done together and took about 2 and a half hours. It really looked good enough at 2 hrs, but I ran it the other hour until there was not one speck of black on the insides or in the primer holes.

[Jaybm]

And another satisfied ss pin tumbler !

I put the ultrasonic cleaner on the shelf ( gathering dust ) after one
run with the pins.

Don , mind sharing where you got your pins ? I need to order some
more. Thanks. Jim

[donhuff]

I got them off Amazon. They were Guntap brand. Wish I had thought to get a magnet while I was at it.

I don't think you can even LOOK at the tumbler without dropping at least 10 of the pins!

[Jaybm]

Thanks Don, just ordered two lbs.

Those magnets looked interesting but I'm so small scale
I couldn't justify one.

Jim

[donhuff]

Jim,

When I opened the new pins, they had a dull odd look about them. I poured them into the tumbler with some soap, and set it for the full 3 hours. After that I drained the water off to find bright shiny pins. And the water had a metallic look. The new pins must have had some sort of manufacturing crud on them.

[Jaybm]

Good to know, thanks ... Jim

[Jaybm]

Delivered today and have that same dull cast.
I'll tumble them tomorrow.

Thanks again for the heads up.

Jim

[donhuff]

your welcome,

I don't know that it would matter if you tumble them first or not. But it did seem to knock down the corners of the pins a little so that they did not cut the brass so aggressively. They will dull down eventually but I did not want to do that to the first few batches of brass that went through the process.