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Charles,

You might want to deprime some of the brass after you have washed/dried it. When I started reloading again after Obama got elected, I would pick up brass off the ground at PSC. Some of that brass had been there a day or two or was in rain water on the ground. I would deprime the brass to clean the primer pocket and any brass that had gotten wet had some nasty looking primer pockets. I may be wasting my time depriming the brass before running them through the wet tumbler but I like clean primer pockets. I have wondered about how long I should run the wet tumbler and how many brass I can put in that thing and still have it work right/not overload the motor and shorten the life of the motor. I typically put the pins in and about 450 - 500 pieces of 45 ACP brass at one time. Seems to work well on cleaning except brass that had Winchester primers. Those primers are extremely dirty and the often don't come clean after wet tumbling. May try going up on the number of brass to see what happens. I run it for 3 hours as 1 hour or 3 hours does not add anything to my labor. May try going to a shorter run to see what happens there as well.

John