Got my SS pins with the Frankford arsenal tumbler kit, they give you 5 pounds worth. Midway had that on sale a while back.
I add two tablespoons of Dawn liquid and about the same of Lemi-Shine in a tumbler full of hot water - I read that on another thread here and figured WTH so that's what I use. I deprime but do not size cases before tumbling.
You didn't ask (when did that stop anybody?
) but will give some observations.
It cleans cases like I've never seen before in 40 years of reloading. Two hours of tumbling and they really come out like new. Primer pockets are almost all cleaned out, maybe another hour would have finished those as well.
Down side is that it's a much more involved process than dry tumbling or vibrating. Dry tumbling you just throw the cases onto a sifter of some kind and shake them around to separate the media. You do that with the SS stuff but have to rinse everything first, then sift the pins and cases to separate them, then gather the pins with a magnet - they like to go
everywhere - then wait until everything dries before you can further process the cases.
To me the process is worth the trouble since I don't tumble or clean cases except after annealing which happens every 5th or 6th firing. Plus, I wait until I can clean several hundred cases at once - e.g. a batch of .30-06, a batch of .243 and a batch of .223 all go in at the same time. Also, there is no residual dust from tumbling media on the cases or anywhere else.
I think you'll like the SS stuff - my old vibratory tumbler is gathering dust these days.
