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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2020, 08:32:45 AM »
I've been meaning to pop on here and ask - are you guys buying the little cleaning packets or would windex or something like that be ok to mix in there?  I figured Dawn dish soap is probably a no-no.

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if you're talking wet tumbling, dish soap is literally all I use. Its a super scientific squirt too  :chuckle:
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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2020, 08:34:42 AM »
You don't have any residue that sticks in there?  Or do you run a big rinse at the end?

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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2020, 08:49:37 AM »
You don't have any residue that sticks in there?  Or do you run a big rinse at the end?
nope. After tumbling I sift out the pins, then turn  The faucet on a drizzle And rinse each piece while simultaneously inspecting for pins. Then its onto the annealer. It doesn't take very much soap to get shiny clean brass. You could probably just run it with nothing and they would come out great but I personally enjoy shiny brass with a nice annealing line. Just one of those things that pleases my brain.

Last summer I did a little clean vs dirty brass test as well as clean vs dirty with a different primer. In both tests there was an ES difference of 2fps and zero accuracy difference. Ill stick to clean brass.
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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2020, 08:53:37 AM »
Awesome.  Thanks for the info.

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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2020, 09:20:05 AM »
Im with karl. Stainless clean and anneal each firing.

I dump the dirty water and as many pins as i can into a pasta strainer with a t shirt in it then rinse with water and dump that through the same shirt. Next fill the tumbler with a bit of water again and dump the remaining pins and all the brass in a bucket. The pins are very easy to dump out or shake out in the water.

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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2020, 09:21:56 AM »
I've been meaning to pop on here and ask - are you guys buying the little cleaning packets or would windex or something like that be ok to mix in there?  I figured Dawn dish soap is probably a no-no.

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Re: Rookie brass cleaning move
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2020, 09:22:07 AM »
I use this to filter out pins and rinse.  works GREAT.

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