Reviews & Ratings for Frankford Arsenal Reloading Tools Platinum Series Rotary Tumbler 7L — 59 reviews — Page 1

Love this tumbler, works great. Frankford Arsenal makes great products

A while back while shooting with a fellow reloading buddy, I noticed his brass was glistening shiny gold compared to my brass that I used to be proud of how clean it was….. OK- what is your secret? I asked. Well the answer is: this wet stainless polishing setup! OMG! I will never use corn cob or crushed walnut to polish again! Use a bit of LemiShine dishwasher additive and a generous squirt of Dawn dish soap and viola! Super Duper Ultra Shine Brass that will make your friends jealous! I know! I was! Use with the brass dryer and never look back! This is the 2nd set I ordered, I want to run two at a time as I go through more brass then most ( I’m that luck Dude that has a few full auto 9mm toys!)

I’ve been reloading for 40+ years and can’t believe that I’ve never owned one of these. In just an hour to two hours the brass comes out looking brand new. Extremely happy about this purchase.

So far this brass polisher is working good. It arrived nicely packed in its box and the assemble was easy as straight forward. I have only ran on batch of brass but it works great and is way more efficient than my old setup

After 10plus years of dry tumbling and two burned out tumblers, I decided to give wet tumbling a shot. I considered the Frankford Rotary Tumbler Lite but decided to go with the larger unit so that I could clean more brass each time.

So today, I set it up and used it for the first time and I am very pleased with the results. I loaded it with 325 .45 casing and 130 6.5 Creedmoor casings. The tumbler had no problem tumbling this load for two hours. Once the entire process was complete, the brass looks almost brand new. The downside is that it is a much more involved and labor intensive process than dry tumbling. The upside is that this process does a much better job than dry tumbling.

Prior to cleaning, I deprimed and resized all of my brass. This allowed the cleaning of the primer pocket. You can’t do that with dry tumbling unless you are prepared to pick corn cobs or walnut shells out of each primer pocket. While the primer pockets were not spotlessly clean, they are as clean as I can get them with my case prep machine which is great for quickly trimming the necks of rifle casings but I never liked grinding my primer pockets with that thing. This wet cleaning process gets the primer pockets as clean, if not cleaner, without grinding on the base of the pocket.

Another advantage over dry tumbling is there is no media residue. It does not matter how much I shake and tumble the brass, I never get all of the corn cobs out. My “clean brass” bucket always has a small p...
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Love this tumbler! I've cleaned cases of the following calibers with it so far: 40S&W, 44mag, 5.56, 6.5 Cre, 50 BMG.
I was surprised at how good it cleaned my BMG brass. I did roughly 20-25 BMG at a time. Great tumbler! I have used it around 40 times since last year, doing great, no issues.

Wanted a way to bulk clean range brass with as little effort as possible. This tumbler with the included stainless steel pin media and filter caps takes you most of the way there. It includes a sample of Frankford's cleaning solution which worked well (I'm sure you could make your own solution for less, but this was convenient). Loaded 1000 pieces of dirty 5.56 brass collected from indoor and outdoor ranges shot with and without suppressors, added cleaning solution, set the timer for 2.5 hours, left and came back, and all of the brass came out clean and polished like from the factory. So did what I wanted, simple low effort way to clean a whole bunch of brass at once.

You'll probably want to get a finer mesh strainer for the pin media (or Frankford's separator options), as the filter end caps are really just for trapping brass. There is nothing included to separate the media from the liquid solution, but any fine mesh strainer would do the job.

Assembled in minutes works perfectly out of the box a little louder than I expected, glad its in the garage. Comes with 5 lbs stainless steel pins and 1 pack of cleaning solution. Delivery was within a week. Love it!

Brass turns out to be better than new. I’ve put in a mixture of large rifle and small rifle brass approximately 600 and it does a great job. This save so much time as compared to the old media tumbler.

Tumbler works great! Cleans brass to like new shape. Wish I had bought this years ago. Cleans loads of brass quickly. The stainless steel media cleans the primer pockets like new. You can't go wrong with this tumbler.