If there are two parts of case prep I hate... One is reaming out the military crimp on .223. The other is cleaning the flash-hole on .223. All larger calibers are so much easier. Perhaps because most folks don't run and reload it as much. This thing is AMAZING!!! I finally case prepped and ran about 500 rounds through this and they are BRILLIANT inside and out. The flash-hole is cleaned and I spent an two hours playing guitar- rather than cleaning them! Hot dang!! Now if I can only remember what the guy at the gunshop said about Dawn and Vinegar and I think salt which works out to about the same as the cleaning solution chemically, but is about a tenth the price. Let me know what you guys use.

Gals... Buy this for your gun-nut reloading husband/boyfriend/partner...

Dudes... If you are a nerd for case-prep then life just got a bit easier with total value for this purchase.

The only other question I have is what to do with that old faithful dry-media tumbler???

If you want super clean brass, this will get the job done. So far I've cleaned around 100 10mm, 500 .40 S&W, and 500 9mm. If brass is deprimed it'll even put a shine in the primer pockets!

My 2 complaints:
-I've noticed that 9mm brass can slip through the little 'screens' that are pictured with the tumbler. Seems like they would have made the slots just a hair smaller than that since 9mm is a pretty popular round.

-The motor on this bad boy is pretty loud and has a relatively high pitched sound. I'll try to dig out my decibel reader soon for a more scientific reading but here's my example for comparison. My washer and dryer are out in my garage behind a insulated steel door and I can usually barely hear them in the next room. I can EASILY hear this tumbler in the next room. Not due to the brass and stainless media against the inside of the drum. It really is the motor that is that loud! Like I said, I'll get out the decibel meter and update soon.

Man oh Man buy this and not only get back many hours of your life but stop breathing in all those lead particles from your vibrating dry tumbler. Once you try this you will never go back. This gets my brass cleaner in an hour then 6 hours in my dry vibrating tumbler. Not to mention they look cleaner using the wet method and its better for your family as they don't have to breath in all this lead in the air. Also my reloading buddies have all commented on how did you get your brass to look like it was brand new ammo. I tell them to buy one of these. If you a new or old reloader and you don't have one of these buy it now its worth every penny and more.

First things first, this thing works great! It arrives fast, is packaged well, and comes with everything you need out of the box to start tumbling brass, all you have to do is add water and plug it in.

The tumbler hold A LOT of brass, in the description is says it will hold 1,000 .223 brass but it seems like it holds more than that, I have not counted each piece of brass however I do fill it up to the brim. After watching others online and doing a bit of research I decided to go with this machine, due to the capacity, and the fact that it cleans just as good, if not better, than the competing tumblers, it just hold way more. I run 1,000+ .223 brass for around 2-3 hours with a couple dashes of Dawn and a pinch or two of Lemi Shine and they look practically brand new, sometimes the primer pocket is not 100% clean, but that can be solved by running it a bit longer. The machine is fairly quite, I run it on the bathroom floor and after closing the door you can still hear it in the next room but it's not overly loud, you can still watch tv, listen to the radio or talk on the phone in the next room with little notice of the noise. One of the big bonuses are the straining caps, they allow you to drain the dirty water with ease while keeping all the shell casings in the tumbler, the stainless steel media will come out, but you can catch that in a mesh strainer.

There are a few draw backs, however I believe the pros highly outweigh the cons with this machine. One of the major draw backs for me, is it seems like I get a fair amount of pins (the stainless steel media) lodged inside the case, or the primer pocket. Some of these are no problem, a gentle tap and the pins will come free, but there is a percentage (seem to be about 50+ cases per batch) that will get a pin to turn sideways inside the case and get lodged in there, you can dislodge the pin with something thin enough to fit in the case mouth, but it is time consuming to look into each case mouth to make sure all the media is out. This is a bonus to dry tumbling, you can spin the media out and it's cheap to replace if some goes flying everywhere, and almost never gets lodged inside the casing, as to where the stainless steel media is expensive to replace. IT does seem easier to separate the pins from the casings if you let the casings dry before you separate them, but this can slow down production if you are trying to run multiple batches back to back. Perhaps if the stainless steel pins were a bit shorter this would solve the problem.

All in all I am highly satisfied with this product and would recommend it to someone else that is interested in reloading.

i had a thumblers tumbler. it worked great but its longevity is questionable. kind of cheesy construction. frankfords rig here is much beefier in comparison plus it holds more brass. (i dont fully use its 1000 rd 223 capacity. i have maybe half to way less than half of that.)
it comes with the stainless steel pins, a packet of solution which is good for one tumbling session. on that note, i used the same quantities of dawn dish soap (1 table spoon), and lemy shine (1/8 teaspoon) and it worked pretty good. that receipe worked great in the thumblers tumbler but only pretty good in the frankford. i'm still experimenting with those two ingredient quantities.
the dawn dish soap is available in any store. i used the regular blue stuff, not the concetrated dawn. as for the lemy shine i believe it was a $1.50'ish at walmart.
lemy shine is a water softener it contains citric acid (great for brass cleaning) which coincidentally is one of the ingredients in the one time use cleaning sample packet that comes with the frankford.
the internal shape is the same as the thumbler tumbler, the difference is that the internal volume is 2 plus sizes bigger on the frankford.
one VALUABLE piece of advice: get a media separator. the same kind one would use for the vibratory tumbler media. the one i'm talking about has a top and bottom, i guess you'd call it a clam shell style, better yet, a picture will save my thousand word description. check the link. http://www.grafs.com/catalog/product/productId/5379/inline/1 this one has grafs name, mine i think is frankfords. EXACTLY the same, but different color. without it you will have to do it the way it shows the guy doing it toward end of this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuDRzeZAgyA the magnet(harbor freight has the long handle version for about 11 dollars. it works great) you see this guy using is very helpful in picking up stray pins that may fall out of media separator as your pouring you brass into it. to me the media separator is more efficient and faster than the way in the video. i found it helpful if you have a lot of brass in the tumbler (500+ cases) that you pour about half into the media separator, separate brass and pins, empty separator basket, then pour in the remaining brass from tumbler. it's a bit easier to separate case from pins that way. what else i found helpful is to fill the bottom clam shell of separator until the internal basket is a little less than half way covered in water. for some reason it seems to greatly aid in the pin/brass separation process.
all said, i think frankfords tumbler is a hearty rig that does allot of brass and it will does it well. i would recommend it and would buy another if i had to do it again. i don't think you would be disappointed if you get one.
if you have any further questions i presume you can contact me through amazon.