Rookie brass cleaning move

[carpsniperg2]

  for sure faster to clean. Adding in drying time it’s about the same.

I’m an allergic to nuts and can’t use walnut. I use to use corn media but was never happy with it. So switched many years ago to the stainless pins and they have been great. Just have to inspect after they are done. I toss mine in a dehydrator as well to dry them.

[7mmfan]

Interesting. I had no idea. Thanks for the education.

[Mtnwalker]

for sure faster to clean. Adding in drying time it’s about the same.

I’m an allergic to nuts and can’t use walnut. I use to use corn media but was never happy with it. So switched many years ago to the stainless pins and they have been great. Just have to inspect after they are done. I toss mine in a dehydrator as well to dry them.

Dehydrator is money. I used to do it in the oven, I’d set them neck down in the plastic trays from pistol ammo on low. Took one time of the wife cranking the oven to 425 and having a giant pile of Nosler brass and molten plastic in the bottom of the oven to quit that

[Rob]

Ouch!

[actionshooter]

for sure faster to clean. Adding in drying time it’s about the same.

I’m an allergic to nuts and can’t use walnut. I use to use corn media but was never happy with it. So switched many years ago to the stainless pins and they have been great. Just have to inspect after they are done. I toss mine in a dehydrator as well to dry them.

Dehydrator is money. I used to do it in the oven, I’d set them neck down in the plastic trays from pistol ammo on low. Took one time of the wife cranking the oven to 425 and having a giant pile of Nosler brass and molten plastic in the bottom of the oven to quit that

  LOL!

[carpsniperg2]

Ouch for sure lol

We all have our moments with reloading! Lucky I still have all my fingers and toes lol

[Karl Blanchard]

Out of the tumbler and through the annealer is the fastest way to dry them 

[Mtnwalker]

Out of the tumbler and through the annealer is the fastest way to dry them 

I’m not that fancy... yet 

[Karl Blanchard]

Out of the tumbler and through the annealer is the fastest way to dry them 

I’m not that fancy... yet 

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[Crunchy]

I had my moment last week.  Down at the range working up a new load.  Had already fired 20 or so rounds.  Chambered a round, pulled the trigger and click.  Thought chit the dreaded primer fail.  Waited a few seconds and ejected the round only to find no primer, but it did have a powder charge  .  First time for that one.

[Rob]

Nice.  Primer upside down is another fun one!

[Onewhohikes]

 

[HighlandLofts]

I prep a lot of range brass. When I first started out I sed a Lyman dry tumbler with corn cob. I deprimed first and had media in the primer pockets. I bought the four piece pick set fyom Hsrbor Frieght to knock out the media.
I switched over to the bigger Frankford Wet Tumbler and never looked back. There is no comparison between dry tumbleing and wet tumbleing.
 I have my way of dealing with the stainless steel pins.
I also made drying racks for the brass and will make more of them now I have a couple of weeks off of work.
I have been getting a lot more range brass to seperate and sell so I quit useing the stainless steel pins.
I will fill up the tumbler with the cases, then hot tap water, a cap full.of ArmorAll car Wash & Wax, 1/2 a teaspoon of LemiShine Booster and a small squirt of Dawn dish soap.
Run it for 45 minutes, put the drain cap on and drain off the black water.
Refill the tumbler with fresh warm water and let it run another five minutes or so.
Put the drain cap back on and drain off the gray water.
Dump the cases on to my case boxes with 1/4 inch x 1/4 inch dcree nottoms and move them around.
I then put themnon my drying racks.
This time of the year with all of the rain I will bring them in and let them sit over night and then put them in the oven set at 190 for 20 to 30 minutes.

I pick up a lot of range brass by my self then started buuing range brass
A few months ago I bought ninty pounds of it, then two hundred & thirty two pounds of it.
Then I bought five hundred pounds of it and just bought another two hundred & eighty-five of it.
Tumbleing that amount of brass you see what works and doesn't  work.

I use to deprime all of the brass before tumbleing with the Lee Universal depriming tool.
 With all the small grit on the cases it ruined my press. My press was bought new two & a half years ago. It was a Hornady single stage Lock n Load press with the cast aluminum frame. Toasted the frame.

So now every thing gets wet tumbled with out the pins before they ho in the press.
When I sell the brass they will have the primers still in them.

I seperate the cases by calibers that can be tumbled together and then get seperated after they get tumbled.
With this amout of brass no matter how carefull you are other callibers still be missed. No big deal.
223 & 300 blackout get tumbled together.
38spl & 357mag get tumbled together.
44mag & 45acp get tumbled together
All 30 caliber cases get tumbled together.
There are a few others get tumbled togrther.
I seperate the dirty range brass in to these groups and then seperate them when I put them on my drying racks after tumbleing.

I enjoy getting this old dirty range brass prepped so others can get some good use out of it.

[Magnum_Willys]

Sounds like a smart way to get big bunches of brass clean!   For small lots the only advantage of pins to me is cleaning the inside and primer pocket shiny.   And thats not too high on my prep list right now.

[ctwiggs1]

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.

Curtis