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reloading : quiet tumblers?

fight4youritesfight4yourites Member Posts: 14 ✭✭
edited February 2002 in Ask the Experts
I would like to know which manufacturer makes the quietest brass polisher out there. I would appreciate the information. thanks.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hehehe, My advise, put the tumbler on a level concreat floor and throw a whole bunch of dirty cloths on it, thats what I do, hasn't started a fire yet...
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get a rotary tumbler with a rubber barrel. Mine is made by Thumbler.Whatever you do don't buy a Lyman Tubby Tumbler. I've got one of those too. The most noisy thing you ever saw.WOODS
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Don't get a Midway tumbler either. AND DON"T COVER ONE WITH LAUNDRY!!! One user here tried that and it melted the motor to the housing and almost did cause a fire.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What i would do if the tumbler is too loud ,is make a box out of plywood, line the inside with styrofoam and set it over top of the tumbler
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  • AdamsQuailHunterAdamsQuailHunter Member Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The model 1229 from Midway is NOT it. It is very noisey. Secondly it eats motors like popcorn.NO --- I an not the one that covered the Midway in laundry and melted it down.
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys. I was fixin' ta buy a Midway tumbler. No more.
    PC=BS
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My dillon vibratory cleaner is quiet enough. I run it in a back bedroom on the carpet and cant hear it.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I get the award for melting the coating on my motor, it was a Cabellas tumbler, and is still going strong today after a little rehab. My midway tumbler is working fine too, they're both loud, oh well, they work well. Dont cover them, and dont put them in a box as suggested, same thing will happen, heat cant escape and it will get hot.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • Richie RichRichie Rich Member Posts: 439 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine is made by past, and I am not sure if there is such a thing as a quiet tummbler.I have a seperate gun room in the house and just turn it on and leave.
    Remember,"your woman may not find you handsome, But atleast she'll find ya handy". I love that show..............
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  • festusfestus Member Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have got a dillon also,its not to bad at all.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    The quietest way is to use a rock polisher. It rolls a barrel with the media and brass inside. Very quiet, but takes about twice as long to work.
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