MartyZ

nope, definitely not a drying issue because that picture was taken straight out of the tumbler. I did however run the entire batch thru again, this time for one hour, less water (just enough to cover everything), 1/8 tsp lemishine, and 1/2 tsp dawn. came out much better, all the spots are gone but the cases are still a bit on the rosy (copper colored) side. Probably my mixture of lemon dish washer soap and lemishine made the water too acidic, resulting in some of the zinc leaching out a little. I will know better now. A little goes a long way

So I just ran a batch of 308 thru and it came out perfect, only this time I used 1 tsp of dawn and .25 tsp of lemishine. So it looks like my formula was no good. If you look at the pic below, it's literally night and day. But here is what might seem like a stupid question that I probably know the answer to but I have OCD and I bought the wet tumbler because I wanted my brass clean and shiny. Is the discoloration correctable???

Franfort Arsenal Platinum rotary tumbler. 5 lbs stainless media. The dish soap I think is SUN lemon. water all the way up to the brim. 2 hrs tumbling, and no sitting after tumbling, I pulled it out and rinsed within 10 min.

I just never saw this with corn cob tumbling

Ok, those with experience with wet tumbling. I just tried out my new FA rotary tumbler and I got over 500 pieces of .45 brass that look like pictured below, with those dark spots. Any idea what could have caused this? They were tumbling for 2 hours with about a tablespoon of dollar store dish soap and maybe half tea spoon of lemishine. Also, is my brass now garbage?

That's what I usually do, but I wanted to load some extra during the cold months, I don't like going to indoor range and it's too cold to shoot outdoors, so I figured i'd load up a few thousand rounds in the mean time.

I don't need 60 lbs. but PM me with how much you asking for 2k

I already checked, nothing recent for 9mm or 45. But I will put it in the WTB also.

The title says it all. I would like to know where is the best place, local or online, to buy good quality once fired brass at the best prices. I'm sure i'm not the only one who would be interested, maybe we can start a list.

My press finally came in. Took them 6 business days to ship, and it was in stock the entire time. They kept telling me that they have shipping issues and delays due to holidays but orders I placed afterwords were shipped, no problem. Another item I had on order, said ships 1-3 business days, they told me over the phone, back ordered till end of December. Their prices are great but I'm too the point where I can't deal with their shipping bull shit anymore.

Is it me or did the price of the Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series Rotary Tumbler 7L just drop like a rock? I was looking a few days ago and it was around $160 and looking today both amazn and cabela's has it for $119.99, haven't checked other stores yet.

Yep, basically.

That's how much I paid in 2001. Now i'm paying $8,000. Mind you this is a townhouse with absolutely no property.

I mentioned the .308 150 gr SP because that is the only .308 offered in the rebate. Basically all the pistol bullets that are offered are HPs and all the rifle bullets are SPs.

Yep, have the rebate forms already filledout, just waiting for the press to come in. Any experience with the .308 150 gr sp?

Not yet, will be getting th inline fabrications lighting kit along with the ergo handle, but again, funds are low right now. I bought the press, shell plates and dies for 9mm. .45, .223. and .308, so the coffers are dry. Next purchase will be the lights and handle, will have to wait on the case feeder. I did get the bullet feeders for 9mm and .45 with the tubes, so I only have to feed cases for pistol for now. I might get the Mr. Bullet Feeder dies for rifle since hornady doesn't make rifle bullet feed dies that work with tubes only.

Yep, I saw the trick with the lock washer on youtube. The "grabbing" with the 9mm crimp is an issue with the lee die as well, believe me I know. The fix for that is one shot case lube, dries dry and is primer and powder safe. the issue is the the crimp dies on the inside are not perfectly smooth and need time to break in. As far as primer feeding goes, I saw a few youtube vids where the primer hole in the slide needs to be a little bit chamfered with fine sandpaper. I would not oil the priming system, unless using a primer safe dry lude, as it can affect the primers I already cleaned all the dies with one shot gun cleaner and lube, will clean the shell plates and bushings today. Press is coming in tomorrow, I have 500 .45s waiting to be loaded. I like the case feed hacks, and will definately look into those once I get the case feed.

No case feeder yet, unfortunately, coffers are dry, that is my next purchase though.

Range 14 allows recyclables, no produce though. Plastic bottles or jugs, and soda cans are all good to go, as long as you clean up after yourself. Grab a bunch of 1 gallon milk or spring water jugs, fill with tap water and some food coloring, and your good to go. Just make sure to place them beyond the 25 yard mark.

Ok all you Hornady LnL AP owners out there. My new press is coming in this week, all the new dies and shell plates already came in and waiting for the press. I have spent the last few weeks watching youtube videos on the press and believe it or not have a few questions. Not new to reloading, just new to the Hornady press. First question. I know the dies have an anti corrosive coating and need to be cleaned, already done with one shot. But how about the shell plates, do they need to be cleaned out the box also? Second question. Grease on the shell plates ball bearing and in the zerg fittings, everyone on youtube says general purpose grease, but what do you all recommend, ball bearing grease, Moly, Graphite, Lithium, etc...? I'm sure I will have more questions once I start setting it up, but that is all for now.

I know the price went up. My point was that it was overpriced at oaks last year, when price was lower, meaning it would be even more expensive this year

I tried to buy powder at oaks last year, way over priced. Was looking for 8208 XBR, cheapest for 8lbs was $180

I put the VG6 Gamma on my AR10 and I love it, will also be putting it onto my savage 10 build once I get the barrel threaded. It reduces recoil significantly on my AR10, and almost no muzzle rise.

Well, I am now reversing my previous post of no issues. I ordered an all new reloading setup. Ordered press on Monday and it was in stock, ordered dies on Tuesday, also in stock. Dies have already shipped but press has not, and I am getting pissed, it's been 4 business days and they still haven't shipped. So basically the later order was shipped but the earlier order was not.

Not in the market for a vette, but if I was I would wait for the mid-engine