Reviews & Ratings for RCBS Rotary Case/Media Cleaning Kits — 12 reviews — Page 1

This case cleaning kit was recommended to us at a reloading class we took. Very happy with it and best price was at Optic Planet!

I've been using this RCBS case separator for years now despite reloading on a big red press. It's super simple, easy to use, and effective. With this separator it isn't necessary to use the slotted lid on your tumbler to drain the bulk of the media out before removing your cases (thereby raising a lot of heavy-metal laden dust) - you can dump everything directly into the black basket, close it up, then turn the handle a few times to make sure your media has all filtered out. The design of the basket ensures that so long as the green lid is closed, the inner basket is closed as well.

My only gripe is that the hinges are all plastic (to be expected) and the plastic is showing some white stress marks on the green hinges. If they break I figure I can upgrade them with metal hinges from a hardware shop.

One tip: when pouring the media back into your storage container, it's
easiest if you separate the two green halves and pour the media into the top lid; depending on the mouth of your container, the circular bottom of the bottom lid can cause a sudden avalanche of polishing media as you pour from it, potentially spilling media on the floor. This doesn't typically happen with the non-stepped top lid.

I have been using a large slotted spoon to scoop the brass out of my cleaner. So when I saw this and after reading reviews and checking prices, I went ahead and purchased it. With the price and free shipping (ordered some other stuff too) I am very satisfied with this purchase. The separator does an excellent job of removing all the media from the case and also the primer pocket. The top is hinged so that it is easily removable when done separating. The bottom holds all the media in my cleaner (Dillion CV-500) with no problem. The basket is also hinged and does snap closed when separating. Just a couple of turns in both directions and the media is removed and the brass can be removed from the basket with ease. It is all plastic and seems to me that it is sturdy enough for what it is used for. Since receiving it, I have cleaned 2000 rounds (200 at a time) of 9mm with no problem.

This unit works great. I wet clean my brass with steel pins and they were a pain to separate from the brass after cleaning. Now it is a breeze with this rotary separator. I usually give it about fifteen or 20 rotations back and forth and job is done. Now I am not saying I don't ever have a couple of pins stuck in the flash hole but it is way less than before. Best part no more tapping cases to get pins out of the inside of each one.

I process 4 to 6 K rounds a year using a wet steel pin system. Product works very will to remove steel pins from 223 cases. Given the pros and cons's below I have changed my process from a small batch of 100 shells to no less than 500 per batch. Not a big deal and keeps the time to clean and remove pins more efficient.

Would I buy this again? Maybe. There is a different one out there for a 5 gallon pale that looks better to me. I can imagine filling a 5 gallon pale part way with something like sand for added weight for stability.

I was very skeptical as to the need for a media separator, figuring that a strainer and a bucket were just as good as these rotary devices, so I have done it manually for several years now. How could this device be any more thorough than tumbling the cases by hand? I'm still not sure of the reason, but boy was I wrong about the method. This method and the RCBS version of it could not be better.
Cases come out as close to completely empty as you can imagine with no mess and no fuss. And, the RCBS has a nice lid latch to ensure that you don't dump it all over if you get a little too energetic and knock things over.
In all, a nice simple time, mess and work saver that is well executed.

The RCBS Rotary Case/Media Separator is an excellent product. I looked at other similar case/media separators but settled on this one after reading reviews on internet blogs. I was pleasantly surprised to observe the effectiveness after several rotations. If it were not for my clumsiness, I wouldn't need the magnet I purchased on the same order. This is one of the best additions to my reloading tools.

I bought this to separate stainless steel media from cases, and it works perfectly for me.
I dump everything in, turn the handle, and flush it all with fresh water(outside). Then remove cases, dump out excess water, rinse the media while in the green tub with fresh water, and the ss media remains in the separator until its
needed it again. This eliminates for me the ss media loss that I had before( its not cheap)

Easy to use to separate ss media
Pros: easy to use

Optics planet does it again. Descent price, fast shipping and diversity in products on hand.
Pros: does everything it is supposed to do