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Who makes the best tumbler? I have RCBS equipment but the Midway reviews favoried Lyman.
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I can report favorably on Thumler's UV 18 tumbler for all brass as well as the Dillon FL 2000 for my .50 BMG brass
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The ultimate tumbler would be an ultra-sonic case cleaner. Not actually a tumbler, but it'll clean anything you can get on a casing!
I use a Dillon tumbler to clean everything, and I even have one of the smaller Midway tumblers to moly projectiles(if necessary).
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Burned up one Lyman tumbler, have a MIdway private label one now. It's been going strong for about 8 years.
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Charley wrote: It's been going strong for about 8 years. If longevity is an issue in one's selection of a tumbler, my Thumler's Tumbler UV 18 was purchased in 1984 and continues to work without excuses to this day. Ramon
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I have a thumlers tumbler I bought in a Garage sale about 3yrs ago, works great and it was old when I bought it for $15.00
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I have never owned one but a friend of mine had the big Dillon and it was the quietest one I have been around.
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Does anyone have a Frankfurt Arsenal tumbler? Saw some a Scheels for about $50.
Any good?
Or $7 with media a media separator and some other doodad accessories.
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I have been using a Frankford for years. For case cleaning and moly application. Not very quiet but durable and reliable except for the little in line switch. I just spliced the switch out.
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Frankford is Midway's brand. Haven't had any problems with mine.
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I used a Thumler's for about 20 years - then the motor crapped out on me. Guess that's a good useful life for one, but they're pretty spendy anymore. Think I paid about $79 for it back then - they're a good deal more than that nowadays. I tried to take it apart with an eye toward fixing the motor but that was next to impossible the way they had the motor casing built. So I sh**t canned it.
Next I bought a Frankford Arsenal tumbler at Sportsman's Warehouse. I thought pretty highly of it - until it quit working on me after about 3 hours run time.  by Frankford Arsenal.
I was a bit hacked off about that - won't buy another Frankford. Took the Frankford back to Sportsman's and exchanged it for an RCBS model. The foot switch on that one gave up the ghost after a couple months - I couldn't fix it,
again, this time by RCBS.
So, I bought another RCBS of the same model and plugged it into a power strip that has a rocker switch on it. I leave the tumbler foot switch in the "ON" position and control it with the power strip's switch.
The "new" RCBS has been doing yoeman's work now for about 8 months. I just ran a couple boxes of .380 brass through it this morning - they came out bright and shiny.
Only criticism I have with the RCBS machine is that the rubber feet are not soft enough - they won't stick down on the concrete, so the machine turns around in circles until it winds all of the power cord around itself. I stopped that by putting one of those meshy thin rubber kitchen mats under it and setting it up on cinder block.
I feed it walnut shell media. It does OK with that, cleans up the brass quick enough. I just hope it lasts a while. A couple years would be OK. 20 would probably outlast me!
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