Should I have a Wet and a Dry tumbler?

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I bought a FA Quick n Easy case tumbler a few weeks back. Then after some discussions here on the forum I was convinced I wanted to wet tumble so off to Harbor Freight and I got the dual drum tumbler and some pins. I've been using the HF tumbler ever since. The FA dry tumbler is still sitting unopened in the original box with 17lbs of walnut media and a bottle of Nufinish. So I was curious if any of you all have both? If so why and how do yo use them. I'm not sure if I should sell the FA or hang on to it. Seems silly just sitting there all lonely and unused brand new in the box.
 
I use both. All rifle brass always gets wet tumbled. Pistol brass I don't care which I use. Not as worried about accuracy as much with pistol. I can put a heck of a lot of pistol brass in the dry tumbler that is why I dry tumble the pistol. If I just have a little bit of pistol I through it in the wet. I have been using my HF tumbler for years now and it has never failed me. Replace a belt now and then and that is it.
 
I'm new to the wet tumbling. I have a lyman dry tumbler I was using. I'm not sure if i will keep it or not. I only load rifle right now so they'll all get wet tumbled and I don't see myself using the dry tumbler any.
 
Sell the dry tumbler while it’s still NIB.

I started with the same FA dry tumbler and it works well. However I haven’t used my dry tumbler since I first used my FA wet tumbler.
 
I’m old enough to remember that there was only one type of tumbler. And it tumbled.

Vibratory “tumblers” came along and people got excited by the speed that they got the job done.


But tumblers kept on tumbling. I used dry media in my tumbler for decades. Now I wet tumble. But I’ve only ever owned one tumbler.


There’s my answer. There is no such thing as wet or dry tumblers. There is only a difference in the media you put in a tumbler.

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zuerjoha said it more simply.
So you've used dry media in a rotary (wet) tumbler? [emoji848] I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess a vibratory tumbler won't be to happy if you fill it with water and steel pins.
 
I sold my Lyman rotary and the Walnut media after using a wet tumbler for a bit. Wet tumbling is the way to go...…. like said above, less dust, less mess, does a better job in shorter time.
 
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