Hope you got it from Hobby Warehouse for $155 ? (oops, didn't read your purchase location. you got a good deal too).
I love it. Few comments (and some dupes from other folks):
1. As mentioned by others, couple drops of oil on the bushings every few loads or the Nylon and/or chromes shafts will start to wear. Also a few drops in the motor oiling holes
2. The Timer at Lowes works great...countdown and stop mode. Set it and go away
3. 2 hours for a quick clean, 4 for truly spotless inside and out nasty range pick up brass with the SST media, Lemishine and a few drops dishwash det. Don't leave it in just sitting there for hours without tubmling or the brass will take on a pink shine. But it will quickly tumble off if desired.
4. I want to add a magnet to the cover, in the middle. So when I take the thumbscrews and washer loose, I can "store" them on the magnet.
5. The drum can rust on the outside, I noticed it where the base is welded on, I think the paint there is weak. When dumping the drum, this area gets wet. Dry it each load.
6. Motor gets "hot" so I also want to add a small muffin fan thats line powered. Probably OK and will last forever, but want to make it last even longer.
7. Its pretty quiet, and I added 1" thick sound deadening material under the base, just to help a bit
8. Right now I dump the load into a larger tubberware and hand pick the brass out. I want a seperator. Tried a kitchen collinder or two, the media is .250 long and needs larger than collinder size holes.
9. Tumble all the same caliber brass in the same load, don't mix cailbers. Otherwise cases will nest into each other and not clean. i.e. a 9mm case fits inside a .40 that fits inside a .45. So a "caliber" seperator system (multiple stacked shake trays with descending size slots) would also be nice, I've seen them somewhere (Frankford?).
10. Never had a leak yet, probably have done a 12-15 loads. About 5lb media, 3-4lb water and 5-6lb brass
11. i tumbled some machined aluminumparts before anodize, used the media,a nd a handful of 9mm brass. Worked EXCELLENT!. As if it were bead blasted, hid a lot of light machining marks and dulled the edges nicely.
Don't remember the shipping $ from Hobby warehouse, if there was any, it was reasonable, and delivery was fast.
Thats all for now, enjoy!