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Lyman Ultrasonic Case Cleaner - 115 Volt

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OnTheFly:
00BUCK,

Do you have the 115 or 220 volt model? Not sure if there is a huge advantage with the 220. I would rather not have to run a 220 line to my man cave. That could get expensive.

Fly

jonm:
I use my ultrasonic cleaner for gun parts only. The extra time/hassle it takes to get brass clean, it isnt worth it IMO.

I use this for cleaning/separating media. It is inexpensive and effective.
http://www.natchezss.com/brand.cfm?contentID=productDetail&brand=UY&prodID=UYNSSIKIT02&prodTitle=Smart%20Reloader%20SR787%20Dream%20Tumbler%20&%20SR405%20Media%20Separator%20Combo

You can also get cheap tumbling media from here. I bought some 2 years ago and I'm not even 1/4 the way through the bag.
http://www.drillspot.com/products/499763/econoline_526020g-40_40_lbs_blast_media

wallace11bravo:
Some discussion here: http://nebraskafirearms.org/forum/index.php/topic,6495.msg46350.html#msg46350

00BUCK:

--- Quote from: OnTheFly on January 01, 2013, 01:06:39 PM ---00BUCK,

Do you have the 115 or 220 volt model? Not sure if there is a huge advantage with the 220. I would rather not have to run a 220 line to my man cave. That could get expensive.

Fly

--- End quote ---
I have the 115V version. I don't believe there is a performance difference between the two.

I don't clean ALL of my brass in it - just the stuff I am loading for accuracy - it does get the insides of the cases and the primer pockets perfectly clean. I love it for bigger gun parts.

The wife likes it too for jewelry. She puts a mason jar in the basket, fills the tank with water fills the mason jar with cleaning solution  up to the water line. Puts her jewelry in the mason jar for about 10-15 minutes.

unfy:
Sold lead to Ronvandyn, and immediately went to Cabella's heh.  Was debating some 30-30 dies, but decided to go with an ultra sonic cleaner instead.

They had a sign up for the Lyman 700 (smallest model) for $49.  Picked it up. Sign was in error, but they gave me the discounted price (from $69 iirc) and kept the sign heh.  Gotta say the service to customer was nice :).  I didn't have to balk or get nasty.  And if they weren't going to give it to me at that price woulda just bought dies instead heh.

Anyhoo, it's a single transducer, 1 liter capacity thing that can go up to 10min.  It is NOT heated.

To copy / paste an email I sent recently about it:


I skipped buying 'official' solution for the ultrasonic.  Going with a cap full of mr clean and a cap full of ammonia per cup of solution (comes out to about 4 cap fulls of each).  Jeweler guy (was talking to over by the powders near the muzzle loading stuff) suggested it and it sounds similar to what I've seen online.  Although i think online possibly mentioned vinegar instead, i dunno.  Anyhoo, $20 for a bottle of cleaning solution is a bit extreme for brass cases.

It... generally cleans as advertised.  The Lyman 700 is tiny (a quart capacity)... and doesn't have a heating element.... so it's not suggested.  But as a get-feet-wet splash, I'm liking it so far.

I took some 30-50 year old rifle brass and put it through it along with some normal and fairly dirty 40s&w.  It does indeed clean insides of the cases nicely, and 3 out of 4 primer pockets were very clean.  Some of the ancient brass was still a bit dirty in the primer pockets heh but thats kinda forgivable.

The 40s&w came out cleaned nicely.  There was a 1x from factory starline brass in the bunch.  It came out clean, obviously, but also it was used to contrast appearance from tumbled brass.  Tumbled brass is usually very very shiny.  This came out... kinda like how glass can come out of a dishwasher.  'Foggy' in appearance ? I dunno.

The rifle brass was interesting.  It was greatly discolored going into the sonic... and quite brown.  If I didn't know better, I'd say it looks a little better now.

I'll have to try preheating my water on the next go around.


If anyone wants to fiddle with it or see it in action, send me a PM through the forum and we can work something out.  I'd prefer to do it at my work (Hwy 370 and Fort Crook Rd in Bellevue).  Bring your own brass naturally :).

edit:

the thing says you can use tap water, but jewelry guy suggested ya boil tap water to get rid of chlorine or to use distilled water

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