As most who get deep into this hobby, I'm a bit of a "gear hound". I bought a Frankford Arsenal Rotary Tumbler when it was on a special deal somewhere, atleast 4-5 years ago, probably longer. It is basically what the large Platinum Series is now, just before it was anointed "Platinum". The promo was so good, that I forgot what it was, maybe a sale price, free shipping, free pins or a combination of them. Regardless, it sat new in the box, since I received it. I have read here and elsewhere for what works for good results and took a few notes, along the way. I finally opened the box 2 weeks ago and started playing with it. I had already made a Walmart visit and scored some Dawn and Lemishine. I started with a pile of 8-900 rds of 10mm brass, which was mostly 1x fired and fairly clean and the cleaning results were better than expected. I learned to reduce the dish soap a bit, based on the residual suds and the end. I then did a run of close to 1K of 9mm, which was 1x and fairly clean. Again, the resulting brass was super clean and cleaning recipe was right on. I realized after that batch, that the magnet to pick up the pins, was probably a good investment and ordered one. This weekend, I did a big batch of 38 and 357, all went well as expected, but they are yet to be sorted thru. I then started grabbing all sorts of used brass from the shelves, to make a decent size batch. Some had previously been cleaned in my old Lyman vibratory with corn cob media. This included about 300 444 Marlin, 100 38-55, some 7MM, some 375 Win and finally, some severely corroded 30-40 Krag, which had been pulled down. Brass came out super clean again and was shocked to see even the Krag brass shining. Lesson learned though on mixing brass, as about 20 or so 444 cases tried to swallow 38-55 cases and a few Krag cases - these all pulled apart easily and all the cases were clean inside and out, so I'm not entirely certain it was from the rotary tumbler or occurred while spinning them in the RCBS media separator. The corn cob leftovers from primer pockets of sized and unsized brass, made for a bit of a mess and I was happy to have the magnet to lift the pins from the cob bits when all of that was drying out. I think going forward, that I'll try to resize rifle brass prior to cleaning, to get the primer pockets. Higher quantity, range pistol cases will get run thru the cleaner first. After separating the pins from the cases, they were dumped on a towel and rolled around a bit to help dry them and then allowed to air dry in my basement (which is very dry). I don't believe that I'll need another machine to help dry them. This was the only size machine available when they first came out and it is oversized for the amount of shooting that I do, but it does great work and I'm happy to have it. Hope my first few tries, helps another newbie with info. Thanks, Bill in MA