Tumber media question

[Diesel40]

What do you do to seperate your media from your cases?  Do you have a media sifter like the frankford arsenal one from Midway USA comes with or do one of the other brands have an easier method?  Thanks

[wncchester]

"... like the frankford arsenal one from comes with or do one of the other brands have an easier method? "

If I understand you correctly it isn't the media you are asking about but how to seperate it from cases?  There IS a simplier/cheaper method of seperating tumbler media from cases than buying something retail.. 

Get a 5 gal. plastic paint bucket and a cheap "expanded mesh-wire net" type office waste basket. Put the basket in the bucket, pour the tumbler contents in and then turn the basket around a few times. 

Used paint buckets are free.  Baskets run 1-3 dollars; mine came fron a Dollar Store for... a dollar!   

[mtdotcomm]

"... like the frankford arsenal one from comes with or do one of the other brands have an easier method? "

If I understand you correctly it isn't the media you are asking about but how to seperate it from cases?  There IS a simplier/cheaper method of seperating tumbler media from cases than buying something retail.. 

Get a 5 gal. plastic paint bucket and a cheap "expanded mesh-wire net" type office waste basket. Put the basket in the bucket, pour the tumbler contents in and then turn the basket around a few times. 

Used paint buckets are free.  Baskets run 1-3 dollars; mine came fron a Dollar Store for... a dollar!   

I did the same thing with two 5gal buckets......... drill a bunch of holes in the bottom of one (smaller than your smallest cartridge), scrape off the "chads". Put the perforated bucket into the other, empty the clean brass and media into bucket(s), (have a bucket lid to keep dust down) Shake......... and, Wah-La media separator !

[Old Fart]

I still use an old plastic collander because all my expendable cash keeps being spent on guns and ammo.

[Scibaer]

i use a large plastic  spoon that has slots cut into it, i guess its for cooking.
its fairly heavy duty, and works great i just spoon out some brass, shake and dump it into the bowl.
no media to deal with and i sort out the cases as im sizing them

[DANNY-L]

I use a deepfryer basket over a 3gal plastic pail that way I can sift the media out of the cases

[southernutah]

Dillion media seperater...........

[gypsyman]

Went to a Dollar store. Bought a plastic collander and dish washing tub. Made sure that the collander just fit down into the tub. Took my Dremel and opened up a few of the slots in the collander, just so a 9mm wouldn't fall thru. Tip my tumbler into the collander while it's in the tub, then proceed to shake it back and forth, just like panning for gold. Don't think I have $5 in both of them. gypsyman

[yukondog]

1/4" hardwear cloth and bucket.

[necchi]

i use a large plastic  spoon that has slots cut into it, i guess its for cooking,,,

  that's what I got, only I upgraded to a metal one, $1.49 at walmart 
Just dipp'm out an shake,

If ya talk of media, I use the critter litter stuff from the pet store, 12# for $8,,it's a fine crushed walnut. So fine it won't get stuck in primer holes, an it cleans an polishes real nice. I use a Thumler's Tumbler, a rock polisher, works great!

[Sweetwater]

I use a Hornady and have used the corncob from Lyman and the crushed walnut - I see no real difference in them. The other day I was getting a bottle of Lyman corncob at WalMart for $13+ for 6lbs. Later in the pet department, I found 8lbs of corncob for $3.50. It's a bit coarser grind than what is in the Lyman bottle, but I ran some range brass and it worked fine as froghair.

I've used a slotted spoon, a collander, and now I have the F/A set-up on a 5gal pail. I had bought it for my Dad and came to me last spring with the rest of his loading stuff. It pays to buy your Dad nice stuff!

[Diesel40]

those all sounds like some really good ideas guys, i will have to try some.  thanks

[fastchicken]

I'm cheaper than all that, I just pick them out by hand, no mess or pouring from one container to another and back.

[Kurt L]

I am cheap too ,I took her noodle strainer and use a 5 gallon bucket.but i got busted and had to buy a new one for the house.

[mdi]

I got one of the plastic coffee cans with the snap-on lid. I cut holes, 1/4", in the lid. Pour media/brass into can and shake over the tumbler. Works for me, but I like the sounds of the 5 gal. bucket and deep fry basket...

[AtlLaw]

I'm cheaper than all that, I just pick them out by hand, no mess or pouring from one container to another and back.

Whew!  I sure am glad you said that first!   

I guess that makes 2 of us... 

[securitysix]

The lid on my Lyman tumbler has a sifter built into it.  It mostly sorta kinda works if you can keep a hold on everything.  I take a plastic Wal-Mart sack, put it over the tumbler bowl and lid, then turn everything over and shake.  That gets most of it.  Then I pick the brass out by hand, making sure to turn it over and dump any media out of it before moving on.

If I have already deprimed the brass, I have to get media out of the flash-holes, too.  The decapping pin from an old Lee Loader (the type where you use a hammer to do everything) works well for this.