Case-Media Seperators

[timeout]

I am doing a little pistol shooting and after years of painfully seperating the cartridge cases from the tumbler media, I'm ready to make things easier. I've read the reviews on Lyman and RCBS, but have not seen any for Dillon. What do you guys use and why? Brand name? Home made? Thanks.

 

[M-61]

RCBS and easy enough and works well. Did without one for decades but now.....
Midway has a sale for $31.49


http://www.midwayusa.com/product/176956/rcbs-rotary-case-and-media-separator

 

[timeout]

RCBS and easy enough and works well. Did without one for decades but now.....
Midway has a sale for $31.49


http://www.midwayusa.com/product/176956/rcbs-rotary-case-and-media-separator

RCBS has great customer service. The reviews I read seem to indicate that the hinges are very poor. Are you 100 % satisfied with the construction of yours? Thanks.






















Wish I would have paid attention to all the reviews when they referred to the lid and how the parts fall apart at the hinges. It's a pain to load and empty.








Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Here is a recent two star review. One never knows if they are legit, or if someone has an "axe to grind".

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

I've got the big Dillon and love it. It works great, but I think they all work basically the same way.
For you bullet coaters, using danzac, moly, hbn, etc., just throw an old rag in with the coated bullets and tumble for a few seconds. It's the easiest way to polish the coated bullets that I've found. I found this because I use the Lyman ceramic media to coat my bullets, and i was a pain to pick the bullets from the media, then polish. I now just dump the contents of he tumbler in this, separate the bullets from the media with a few rotations, then throw in an old rag with the bullets a repeat. They come out looking great. I just toss the old rag.--Mike Ezell

 

[M-61]

RCBS and easy enough and works well. Did without one for decades but now.....
Midway has a sale for $31.49


http://www.midwayusa.com/product/176956/rcbs-rotary-case-and-media-separator

RCBS has great customer service. The reviews I read seem to indicate that the hinges are very poor. Are you 100 % satisfied with the construction of yours? Thanks.

OK...#1... RCBS does have great customer service...maybe the best.
#2....I am 100% satisfied and I just went down to look at the hinges on mine since you mentioned it. No sign of anything going wrong. I am not abusive but I have been referred to as a bull in a china closet. One thing I do know is that should anything go wrong with this I don't have the slightest doubt RCBS will stand behind it.

 

[stool]

buy the dillon and an extra base bin....
put the bin over the top when rotating..it keeps all the media inside....

 

[csandfort]

The hinge and latch on my RCBS seperator were not up to the usual RCBS standard. The hinge fell apart each time I opened the basket and the latch was difficult to operate properly. The slots on the RCBS were too large for my 17 Hornet brass and it would fall through the cracks up to the base. One or two turns and the basket looked like a Chia pet. This prompted me to buy a Dillon seperator and after one use I threw the RCBS in the garbage!

HTH, Cal

 

[4xforfun]

I simply bought a small cake pan for a dollar and poked it full of holes....just small enough so 17 cal bullets wouldn't fall through. If I knew that I would never clean or molly anything smaller than say 243 pills I would make the holes way bigger.

I also bought a couple of tinfoil pie plates for 50 cents to catch the media.
Had this same setup since the mid 90's.

 

[madmixerman]

I just dump the media into a small bucket & then put the strainer that came with my Cabelas tumbler. I put it on the tumbler ;turn on the tumbler & pour the media in & it all vibrates back into the tumbler.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shooting/Reloading/Tumblers-Sonic-Cleaners-Scales%7C/pc/104792580/c/104761080/sc/104661180/Cabelas-Model-400-Vibratory-Case-Tumbler-Kit/731769.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Ftumblers-sonic-cleaners-scales%2F_%2FN-1100197%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104661180%3FWTz_l%3DUnknown%253Bcat104792580%253Bcat104761080&WTz_l=Unknown%3Bcat104792580%3Bcat104761080%3Bcat104661180

 

[gdbleb]

I have the small Dillon separator.
It is very sturdily built.
Unless you shoot enormous quantities per week, it should suffice.
It is very good at tumbling the media out of bottleneck rifle cases as well.

 

[jonbearman]

The dillon is the best I have used,sold all the rest.If you dont want some media on the floor turn it slower and no mess.

 

[RJinTexas]

Buy the large Dillion, it takes up a little more room but there's much less mess to contend with, you won't be sorry.

RJ

 

[Duster_360]

I had to process about 10k of 45 range brass a few years ago in a short time frame - I had to have a separator. I bought the RCBS in spite of the reviews about the hinges.


The hinges are flimsy - they should have been larger. I haven't had any probs with mine.

 

[stool]

i run three dillon large tumblers....and have a large dillon media seperator....i like it..with a cover...going slow is not an option...time is money.

 

[BowGuy]

Have the RCBS and no complaints. Interesting comments about the hinges. After tumbling and retrieving the brass, I snap off the lid, pour the media back into the tumbler, return the brass holder then snap the lid back on.