SINCLAIR INTERNATIONAL - Tumbling Kit, Stainless Steel, 110V

Awesome should have started with this over the dry media. If you are on the fence about this save and buy it. It makes a difference for sure.

I have been using an industrial ultrasonic cleaner; better than vibrator/corn cob, but I still wasn't satisfied. On a suggestion from a fellow shooter, I purchased this unit and the stainless media. 1st suggestion: buy the media transfer magnet up front. I didn't: I have one now!! I did an initial ultrasonic clean on 200 .22-250 AI cases and put them in the Thumler. Added distilled water, stainless media, and Lemi Shine Detergent Booster then tumbled for 3 hours. Brass was spotless both inside and out, as well as the primer pockets. 2nd Suggestion: Be careful when you open the tumbler. the pins stick at the top of the rubber gasket as well as to the rubber gasket. They can go everywhere if you get in a hurry to remove the gasket. 3rd. suggestion: I rinsed the brass in tap water, placed it on a cookie sheet, and put it the kitchen oven at 120 degrees for 2 hours. WRONG! Brass tarnished terribly and water spotted as well. I put the brass back in the Thumler for 2 hours, this time I removed the brass directly from the tumbler, primer pocket up to wash/shake out any pins, and put it directly into a stainless mesh basket. I used an air hose to blow off as much of the exterior moisture as possible and then placed the brass on the trays of a 600W food dehydrator, set it at 120 degrees and left it for 2 hours. Brass was dry and looked better than new. 4th suggestion: get a food dehydrator for drying. I paid $60 on eBay. I then did 200 .223 Rem cases using the same procedures. Again, the brass came out looking better than new, however, maybe 10% of the cases had stainless media pins stuck in the primer flash hole. I used a small diameter punch to gently press them out, with minimal effort. To dry the media, I have placed it into a 4 qt. sauce pan and placed it on the stove, heating the media so as 'boil' off the water. It requires stirring the pins. This is a hassle, I'm going try placing the media in a foil roasting pan and the oven next time. I am now pleased with how my brass looks. It is clean both inside, primer pockets, and outside. I don't believe there is a hassle free way to clean brass, but using the Thumler isn't any more of a hassle than any other method I've tried. I would recommend this unit.

Thumler's tumbler is a very well designed, HEAVY DUTY product. I was surprised at the heavy guage steel used in this product. Painted heavy enamel coating is excellent, it is definitely not a toy! I used 3/4 of the steel pins in my first batch with 2 teaspoons of Dawn and a teaspoon of Lemi-Shine. All I can say is WOW!

This thing will make your brass look like new. Cleaned 100 .308 and 50 45 ACP cases in one batch and have never gotten brass this clean. The inside or the cases and primer pockets looked like new brass. Used Dawn dish soap and Lemi-shine.

I've been wanting to try one of these and with the special pricing on black Friday I gave it a go. My first batch of cases were about 200 pieces of .223 brass that were in horrible condition. They were previously cleaned in a vibrating type cleaner for 8 hours and where unusable. I then tried a sonic cleaner for 8 cycles and still they were unusable. Too much tarnish inside necks and they were just too far gone. {I THOUGHT} Then I tried this tumbler and I stopped it at 2 hours just to see how they were doing. Amazingly they were like new inside and out. VERY impressive. This brass was going in the trash and now its like new. A+