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Post by BozoWise on Feb 4, 2004 23:16:33 GMT -5
Hey Pop are you saying that it could go POP ;D I do not recommend it either.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Feb 19, 2004 14:13:14 GMT -5
It is pretty much safe to do in a vibrating polisher( that is what the factories do) but a tumbler proper,,, different story.
Sorry, I was called from my cube. If you picture in your mind the trip that any ammo takes from the factory to your hands- the shaking and vibrating due to forklifts, railcar shipping, commercial trucks even shipping overseas- do you really think a hour or so in a vibrating polisher will alter the powder?
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Post by BozoWise on Mar 1, 2004 2:15:11 GMT -5
Great point snake.
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Post by mstarling on Mar 2, 2004 12:27:01 GMT -5
Is not worth the risk even if you are using a very hardy powder that won't breakup during tumbling.
If you have one that is too cruddy to shoot, try Softscrub to clean it with ... if that doesn't work pull the bullet and start over.
If you want to tumble clean the sizing lub from cases I recommend that you size them, wipe them down with a rag that is damp with WD-40, and then tumble the cases before they are loaded.
Have done that for years and never had a problem.
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Post by snakeriverrufus on Mar 2, 2004 14:17:42 GMT -5
Well maybe if you have only one or two rounds to clean. I polished 2K rounds of M2 ball ( after delinking) for a Garand. Don't think softscrub would be the answer there. By the by, every round that fired worked the action just fine. Now if that powder had broken down and burned faster, the op rod would have been beat to death. If the powder had altered to burn slower, the bolt would not have cycled. The M1 is pretty fussy when it comes to burn rate and pressure curve of the powder it needs to operate.
Further, the new Dillon manual for thier polisher says that it is acceptable to polish loaded ammo.(in thier machine)
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