case tumbler--recommendations

[weasel]

can anyone recommend a case tumbler? i read the reviews on Midway website but they all have 5 stars down to one star.  i do a moderate amount of reloading. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

[Bscman]

I have a frankford aresenal and a berrys MFG vibratory...Both were the cheaper of the tumblers I could find. I use them a LOT for the smallest of the small to the biggest of the the big with no issues. 12+ hrs straight at times.

No issues at all.

My only real suggestion is to find one with a lid that SEALS (not vented)...not a concern, though, if you don't mind dust getting EVERYWHERE. Wholesale Sports (formerly sportsman's wharehouse) has the frankford arsenal's on sale regularly for $39.

[carpsniperg2]

there is a lot of good ones, frankford aresenal is a good one. one of the best deals i got in my life was on a tumbler! it is a thumblers tumbler "spelling" i saw it on the local ads. it is made for rocks or whatever it is huge. i asked how much the lady wanted, she said 15.00 and it had only been turned on once. it is a 190.00 unit

[high country]

the top half of the bowl blew off of my hornady tumbler recently. hornady says they are lifetime warranted, I will find out. in their defense it has tumbled hundreds of thousands of rounds without issue before this happened.

I would look for one that has a door on the side to dump the cases out, otherwise you need a tub to catch the media and strain it through the lid.....or ask god for the patients to hand pluck every piece of brass.

[NRA4LIFE]

I have a Lyman 1200 and love it.  I've had it for 20+ years and has done many thousands of cases.  Never have had the lid come loose at all.  It makes my wife really happy too as it does a bang up job on some of her small silver items

[MtnMuley]

I use the magnum Dillon tumbler, and it's great.  I would highly recommend it.

[JackOfAllTrades]

I have the Dillon Magnum 2000 and the separator with tub, and love the setup. It is a hand me down, and I've used it for some eight years. I know it's probably twice as old as that. If the motor burned up.. I'd just replace the motor. If the whole thing burned up, I'd buy another Magnum. You cannot go wrong with Dillon products. 

-Steve

[Big10gauge]

get the red one.

[SeaRun1]

I bought the Cabelas tumbler and it works just fine.  No complaints after a little over a year.  I also got the media strainer thing as well and that thing works nicely.  It gets all of the corn cob media out of the shells with just a few turns of the crank.

Anyone have any thoughts on the pros/cons of corn cob media versus walnut shell?

SeaRun1

[carpsniperg2]

for some reason i have always liked the way walnut shell media cleans. i have used corn and it works fine but walnut is for me.

[JackOfAllTrades]

Corn to clean. Walnut to polish.

[carpsniperg2]

jack is right the corn is softer so it kinda scubs more and cleans better and walnut finishes better then corn. most times i use steel wool if the shells are real dirty before i put them in the tumbler. that is why i just use walnut, and most times i tumbel them after each time of resizing them. but i am kina a neat freak with my handloads