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Lemi Shine in my sonic cleaner :(
unfy:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on March 01, 2013, 03:25:58 PM ---What I found I like about Vinegar is that it evaporates when it dries, leaving no residue.
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You should still 'de-activate' vinegar. A rinse / quick soak in a bit of water with baking soda does that.
I'll have to post pics of some before / after with lots of times and stuff on what I use (link was in another thread). Including something to where "i just want things clean enough to reload" attempts... rather than shiny and slightly more time consuming.
Hank:
A friend of mine bought a very large sonic cleaner from a schools lab. I forget what he said he used in it but I will ask him.
Without a sonic cleaner;
What I have found to work very well is a 50/50 solution of Lime Away/water. I decapped a bunch of range brass (9mm/.223), brushed the primer pockets, then into the solution for ~10 minutes, slosh around ocasionally, then rinse with hot soapy water and let dry of course.
For many, this method alone would get brass plenty clean enough to reload, but I tumbled afterwards. Figure I get a little more mileage from the tumbler media, plus the lime away realy boils the crud out of the primer pockets.
SS_N_NE:
DO NOT clean brass in Lime Away. That stuff has hydrocloric acid in it. You do not want it near your brass or guns.
GreyGeek:
Since Lemi Shine is Citric Acid I decided to try concentrated Lemon juice to clean brass.
I put a pint of distilled water into my sonic cleaner, added 1/4th cup of Conc Lemon juice, and about 1/4th a teaspoon of dish detergent. In about 15 minutes they were shiny inside and out. I rinsed them with tap water and finished with distilled water, and then used a blow dryer to dry them.
At the same time I made a pint of the same mixture, which hot water, put the same number of casings in it, shook them gently for about 5 minutes, then washed and dried as above. The brass came out just as clean as above.
mmm...
Hank:
--- Quote from: SS_N_NE on March 06, 2013, 06:10:59 PM ---DO NOT clean brass in Lime Away. That stuff has hydrocloric acid in it. You do not want it near your brass or guns.
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I will make a note of that. Seemed to work very well, but perhaps the long term effects are going to be bad.
I have reloaded and fired 250 rnds of 9mm and ~ couple hundred .223.
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