Cleaning tiny casings

[Ron3]

I got an RCBS media separator to remove media (corn and walnut) from tumbled casings.

Unfortunately the slots in the enclosed basket are too big for .25 acp casings and will fall out of the basket along with media.

Any ideas?

Modifications? Use a cat litter scoop? Is there a tighter basket I could put in the existing basket?

[lonestardiver]

Get some hardware cloth with 1/8” or 3/16” squares and line your basket with that.

[Ron3]

Get some hardware cloth with 1/8” or 3/16” squares and line your basket with that.

Thanks, but I'll have to look up "hardware cloth". 🙂

[gaijin]

"hardware cloth"= “hail screen”.
Comes in 1/4” from memory.

[Bimmer]

Just buy a vegetable strainer...

They're made out of screen that's fine enough not to let .25 cases fall through, but coarse enough to let media fall through.

[Chubbs103]

Just buy a vegetable strainer...

They're made out of screen that's fine enough not to let .25 cases fall through, but coarse enough to let media fall through.

My tumbler has a secondary, strainer-like top that gets 90%. Then I put the brass in a standard, plastic colander (like for spaghetti) and give a couple of tosses.

[Ron3]

My tumbler has a secondary, strainer-like top that gets 90%. Then I put the brass in a standard, plastic colander (like for spaghetti) and give a couple of tosses.

The Hornady tumbler I have coming does include a strainer lid like you mentioned.

That plus a food strainer should take care of the issue.

If I end up not caring for the vibration tumbler and corn / walnut the next thing I'll try is wet tumbling without pins.

Thanks!

I still need to know which god rules over primers and pray / make offerings...