Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
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JTH:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on February 02, 2016, 05:53:30 PM ---Bottom Line:I've just defaulted back to vibrator tumbling w/walnut media and THWI.
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Yup.
I don't worry that much about gleaming, shiny, ultra-clean brass---but that is because I reload a fairly low pressure pistol round, for standard accuracy levels. For my needs, spending the time and effort cleaning the brass to a higher standard (my "brass cleaning" is that I tumble in dry media for about an hour, and that's it, noting that I use random range brass also for my reloads) creates such a negligible difference in performance that it isn't worth it. Literally, the difference that it could make relative to my needs is effectively zero.
If I was reloading precision rifle rounds for distance or group, that would be different. But....I'm not.
.....so how you clean brass (and to what extent) really is going to depend on what you plan on doing with it.
(I've actually got a sonic cleaner, which I find highly annoying to use to clean brass. Works for small gun parts, though.)
MartyB:
Depending on which way you go, your tumbling media presents another opportunity to save a few dollars. It is not necessary to spend $15 on seven pounds of corn cob media. I believe the thirty-five pound bag I picked up at the local Feed-and-Grain cost $13. I add a dab of brass polish to each load I run through the tumbler.
MartyB:
--- Quote from: MartyB on February 02, 2016, 10:11:53 PM ---Depending on which way you go, your tumbling media presents another opportunity to save a few dollars. It is not necessary to spend $15 on seven pounds of corn cob media. I believe the thirty-five pound bag I picked up at the local Feed-and-Grain cost $13. I add a dab of brass polish to each load I run through the tumbler.
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...note that mine do NOT come out of the tumbler looking like @tstuart34's. That is some sexy brass right there!
tstuart34:
--- Quote from: MartyB on February 02, 2016, 10:17:25 PM ---...note that mine do NOT come out of the tumbler looking like @tstuart34's. That is some sexy brass right there!
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My mix is ss pins 1 9mm case of lemonshine, a big squirt of dawn dish soap and hot water to fill the drum. Takes about 2-3 hours for about 1k of 9mm to be cleaned. I need more ss. Primer pockets are normally spotless no media in the flash holes ect.
Like SFG said summer time is great for drying brass. Winter is harder. I think I'm going to start dehydrating my brass. Other wise I have a small fan that gets set up and blows across them after being spun around in a couple of towels.
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JTH:
--- Quote from: tstuart34 on February 02, 2016, 10:51:33 PM ---My mix is ss pins 1 9mm case of lemonshine, a big squirt of dawn dish soap and hot water to fill the drum. Takes about 2-3 hours for about 1k of 9mm to be cleaned. I need more ss. Primer pockets are normally spotless no media in the flash holes ect.
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That is WAY more work than I want to do.
And what, people actually deprime their old cases before they clean them? Pshaw!
:)
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