5 Lb Stainless Steel Tumbling Media Pins - 0.047" Diameter, 0.255" Length

Works great for polishing ammo brass.

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Great for wet tumbling decapped brass. Lasts a long time. Stainless steel, easy to pick out with a Frankford magnet.

If you are tumbling brass for reloading this is pretty much optimal. The pins are sized so that they do not get stuck in primer pockets, and clean brass inside and out. The only reason they don't get 5 stars is I reserve that for 'exceptional quality beyond the norm' Of course I can't imagine how they could do better......

I have been hording my range brass for years, thinking that some day I would reload. All the research I did told me that stainless steel pins wet tumbled with your brass is the way to go. These worked great in my frankford tumbler. They are small enough to get inside the primer pockets and clean them out very nicely. I usually add just a squirt of car wash / wax solution to the tumbler, and then let them tumble all night. When I need more I will definitely order these again. I still need to try adding some lemi-shine to the mix to see if that gives even better results.

BC Precision had a great price and fast delivery. I use only 1-1/4lb in my homemade tumbler (see picture).Works great on .223 and 9mm, as well as others I'm sure. My first test was on some seriously scroungy range 223 that had been out in the weather for a long time. When tumbled with these pins and detergent and lemi-shine, cases are clean and shiny, inside, out, and even the primer pockets. In my mind way better than vibratory cleaning, which I find takes at least 12 hours and doesn't get brass anywhere near as shiny.A little more trouble separating the pins from the brass, but one of those pickup magnets makes it easy, and it's WAY faster than vibratory. Just rinse the tumbled brass in a colander, and if you're in a hurry, dry in a food dehydrator at low temp, and you're done. The tumbling stage takes only an hour or two (stop when they're as shiny as you want). I change the water at 1/2 hour, recharge with more detergent and lemi-shine, and let it go for the rest of the time. Then I spread out the pins on a piece of cardboard to dry.

The product works great but a word of caution, on cases with a small opening (223) it can be a pain to get the media to exit the case. IMO it was such a pain that I will stick to corn or walnut media for those rounds. It was a breeze to use on 9mm, 45 and 308, cleaned those cases in less then half the time.