It comes with 5lb of stainless steel media and two packets of blue soap mixture for brass shine (This can be substituted with Lemonshine or other brass cleaning agent, OR nothing at all: It is not necessary to use in order to clean, only to shine). The barrel is pretty big and holds quite a bit of brass. It consists of two main components: The barrel, and the motor/base. It uses water and steel pins for media, and rotates sideways. In comes the Frankford Arsenal Rotary Tumbler, a relatively new approach to brass prep. And when it’s done tumbling, you have to check each piece of brass for plugged primer pockets….which is time consuming. I certainly doesn’t clean the primer pockets, nor the inside of the cases. The problems I experienced in this is that the walnut media 1) Is messy and dusty, 2) Wears out quickly, and 3) Doesn’t clean the brass very well. I was one of the typical reloaders who just used a vibratory tumbler for cleaning the brass carbon and case lube. Most reloaders dont consider the cleaning stage to be one of the stages that takes a lot of time, but if you want clean brass, it does take time. Time gets soaked up in lots of different stages, namely the resizing and trimming stages. Having been into reloading for about 7 years now, I’ve had my fair share of frustrations in the amount of time it takes to prep my brass for reloading.
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