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Posted: 7/26/2014 6:42:33 PM EDT
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Quoted: Loaded up my vibratory tumbler today with both .38 special and .45 acp. The different size cases got lodged together with walnut shells. Some so tightly that I thought I was going to damage the brass while getting them apart. One thing's for sure. I won't be doing that again!!  |
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Posted: 7/26/2014 6:46:23 PM EDT
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I get em apart with a nail. Hold the larger case , insert nail in the smaller case and use a little twist of the wrist
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Posted: 7/26/2014 7:02:18 PM EDT
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Just wait untill you pour in nu finsh then your brass without letting it mix first.
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Posted: 7/26/2014 7:21:25 PM EDT
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Just wait untill you pour in nu finsh then your brass without letting it mix first. Every reloader makes these mistakes. It sucks, but you learn and move onward. |
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Posted: 7/26/2014 7:31:06 PM EDT
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Just wait untill you pour in nu finsh then your brass without letting it mix first. I'm still pretty new... What happens? |
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Posted: 7/26/2014 8:02:34 PM EDT
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I'm still pretty new... What happens? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Just wait untill you pour in nu finsh then your brass without letting it mix first. I'm still pretty new... What happens? After awhile the walnut starts to dry out. So to rehydrate it and make your brass be more shinny after you clean it you can pourin some Nu finsh car wax. Let your viberator cleaner run for about 30 min. or so and let that mix in with all the media. Sometimes you forget to or dont know and dump in the nu finsh thenyour brass. It makes a big mess. Wet media will get inside your brass and it just clumps all together. Then you gotta take out the brass and wash it all out so you dont have a ball of media in there for a kaboom when you put powder in laterand try and fire that round. It happens to us all |
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Posted: 7/26/2014 8:07:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Everyone does that once and never again. Welcome to the club. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Loaded up my vibratory tumbler today with both .38 special and .45 acp. The different size cases got lodged together with walnut shells. Some so tightly that I thought I was going to damage the brass while getting them apart. One thing's for sure. I won't be doing that again!! 100% truth to that. |
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Posted: 7/26/2014 8:16:16 PM EDT
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At least the .38 is long enough to see and pull on. 9mm in a .45 is worse. .380 in a .45 is even worse.
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Posted: 7/26/2014 8:37:31 PM EDT
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I pulled down 40 rounds of late 40's 30-06 surplus ammo.
After I popped the primers out I tossed the brass and bullets in to the wet tumbler. After 3 hours I had 36 bullets and little stainless pins stuck in 36 cases. What a bitch it was getting the bullets out of the cases. |
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Posted: 7/26/2014 9:17:28 PM EDT
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I pulled down 40 rounds of late 40's 30-06 surplus ammo. After I popped the primers out I tossed the brass and bullets in to the wet tumbler. After 3 hours I had 36 bullets and little stainless pins stuck in 36 cases. What a bitch it was getting the bullets out of the cases. The bullets went back into the cases after you seperated them? Thats wierd. Wouldnt have thought the necks would have opened up enough for that just by pulling the bullet. Good to know |
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Posted: 7/27/2014 4:29:45 AM EDT
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Been there, done that, like you, won't do again...
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Posted: 7/27/2014 5:32:16 AM EDT
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Yeah .40 or .223 with .45 will do that also
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Posted: 7/27/2014 6:27:16 AM EDT
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Loaded up my vibratory tumbler today with both .38 special and .45 acp. The different size cases got lodged together with walnut shells. Some so tightly that I thought I was going to damage the brass while getting them apart. One thing's for sure. I won't be doing that again!! Yup. 9mm and .40 mixed together. Still happens to me occasionally, and I own no .40s, and collect no .40 brass. I'll also get the occasional .40 in a .45acp. Sucks. |
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Posted: 7/27/2014 8:16:33 AM EDT
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9 into .40 into .45...
I've spent enough time with a dental pick cleaning out clumped media to learn to let it mix. |
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Posted: 7/27/2014 9:02:13 AM EDT
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I'd had few enough issues with this in my vibratory tumbler that I had to re-learn it with my wet tumbler. Now, I ONLY tumble "like diameter" brass together. 30 calibers (including Tokarev, .30 carbine, 7.62x39 as well as .308 and .30-'06) go together, 9mms and .38/.357 go together, but .40s are all alone and so are .45s. Sorting cases doesn't take any longer before cleaning than after, and it makes things SO MUCH easier!
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Posted: 7/27/2014 12:49:11 PM EDT
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9 into .40 into .45... I've spent enough time with a dental pick cleaning out clumped media to learn to let it mix. done that 
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Posted: 7/27/2014 1:25:22 PM EDT
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100% truth to that. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Loaded up my vibratory tumbler today with both .38 special and .45 acp. The different size cases got lodged together with walnut shells. Some so tightly that I thought I was going to damage the brass while getting them apart. One thing's for sure. I won't be doing that again!! 100% truth to that. 99.999% , I haven't done it yet . Doesn't mean I won't tho. |
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Posted: 7/27/2014 3:08:28 PM EDT
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Ask me how well that worked with 45acp and 9mm
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Posted: 7/27/2014 3:26:26 PM EDT
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When you get a case nested and wedged inside another, forget the pliers etc. With the vibratory tumbler still running, I place the nested cases on the threaded rod for the lid, so the rod is in the case mouth. Gently hold it there with your fingers.
The vibration will shake out the media in short order. Sometimes as they come apart, one or both cases get flung, but that is no a big deal. |
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Posted: 7/27/2014 7:53:40 PM EDT
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we all did this at least once.
9 in 40 40 in 45 
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Posted: 7/27/2014 8:13:24 PM EDT
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I tumble 9, 40, and 45 together all the time - never have a problem.
Start by putting the .45 into the tumbler, and run it for a minute. This fills up the cases. Then, dump in the .40, and run for another minute. Finally, put in the 9mm. Once the media fills the case, a smaller case won't jam up inside it. Do the for any combination of cases - largest in first, smallest in last. It's a bit of a chore to sort your range brass before tumbling it, but it beats the heck out of separating stuck cases all the time. |
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Posted: 7/28/2014 3:51:58 AM EDT
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I had stuck cases after throwing a bag of unsorted range brass ino the tumbler. 9's,.40's, and .45's together are not fun. IIRC there were some .380's or .32's in the bunch, too.
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Posted: 7/28/2014 4:04:00 AM EDT
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A member of the .45 ACP and .380 ACP club checking in. |
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Posted: 7/28/2014 5:45:00 AM EDT
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I've done it. I emptied the bowl and tossed in the stuck cases and turned it on for a few minutes. I came back and most had separated.
The most PITA thing I had done was use corn with several hunderd .223 cases. It was so bad I tossed the entire bag of corn in the trash. That dang corn got stuck in every third case. That is how I learned about the empty vibrator bowl trick. I had to visually inspect (sometimes manually) each case, If i suspected it had corn in it I'd toss it in the bowl. Every now and then I'd have to empty the loose corn shake more out. I wasted a bunch with a deck screw until I used to vibratory cleaner. 
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Posted: 7/28/2014 7:24:13 AM EDT
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This why I HATE the 40 S&W
I'm a brass scavenger. It's very difficult to tell a 40 from a 45 from a 9mm. Invariably I get a few mixed in when tumbling. They copulate right tightly. Takes a pair of needlenoses to separate 'em. |
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Posted: 7/28/2014 12:56:33 PM EDT
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I had a 9mm case make it's way into a .45 colt case....and unfortunately..I didn't catch it till after I had primed the case....would not come out....layed on my bench for a while, till I had the bright [read stupid] idea of just loading it up in my Vaquero and shoot it out with the primer.....it worked.
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Posted: 7/28/2014 5:53:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This why I HATE the 40 S&W I'm a brass scavenger. It's very difficult to tell a 40 from a 45 from a 9mm. Invariably I get a few mixed in when tumbling. They copulate right tightly. Takes a pair of needlenoses to separate 'em.   |
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Posted: 7/28/2014 6:02:02 PM EDT
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just tumble them with no media and they will separate themselves
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