Cleaning brass

[justin haigis]

Is the Hornady Lock-N-Load Sonic Cleaner worth it and does it remove oil Contaminates?



Or is the regular tumbler good enough mine craped out was thinking of an upgrade.

 

[Gwak2006]

Rotary is where it's at. Steel pins, Lemishine, dish soap, and water.

 

[rustyinbend]

My wet-tumbler (no pins - hate 'em) with a good brass soap (Frankford Arsenal cleaning packs are great) ... is WAY better than any sonic cleaner results. I reserve the sonic cleaner for pistol and rifle parts (bolts, etc.) but don't use it for brass.

 

[justin haigis]

My wet-tumbler (no pins - hate 'em) with a good brass soap (Frankford Arsenal cleaning packs are great) ... is WAY better than any sonic cleaner results. I reserve the sonic cleaner for pistol and rifle parts (bolts, etc.) but don't use it for brass.

Do you use a parts dryer or will an old food dehydrator to dry brass

 

[rustyinbend]

Do you use a parts dryer or will an old food dehydrator to dry brass

I use the Frankford Arsenal Brass Dryer (Tumbler and Soap too). I'm a FA fan-boy.

 

[Cr1775]

The regular tumbler is plenty good enough.

 

[CK1.0]

Wet-tumbling with SS pins will eventually peen your case mouths and leave you with a nasty lip to contend with if you plan on using brass for multiple firings... I love the results (virtually brand new brass) but I no longer wet tumble precision rifle cases because of this side effect.

Now I only dry-tumble precision rifle cases (and get no more case-mouth peening). I still love the wet-tumbler with SS pins for all my blaster ammo though.

I found that using a sonic cleaner for cases was way more of a pain in the ass than it's worth (and this is with a sonic cleaner rated about 3x better than that Hornady one or any other gun-industry-branded one I've ever seen).

 

[Near miss]

I decap and use the sonic cleaner, the brass dries pretty quick when the liquid is 60C.
Some brass cleans easily, some just does not. It probably has to do with how scuffed the brass is.

I do not mind if the brass is not perfectly clean, not at all. I prefer to shoot them, not look at them.

 

[Alabusa]

F.A.R.T. with ss chips.

 

[BuildingConceptsllc]

My ultrasonic cleans them really well. If ya want em shiny, tumble em in media with a little car wax.

 

[Keeper22]

I have all the above, and wet tumbling with lemishine, dawn and no pins seems to work the best. I use a food dehydrator to dry.

 

[Cascade Hemi]

Surely everyone will agree on this subject.

 

[oso1]

I prefer dry tumbling, I don't like the inside of the case "like new" it seems to take more force and inconsistent force when seating bullets in new brass or wet tumbled cases. When the inside of the case is comes out of dry tumbler there is still enough dirt that acts like a lube, more consistent seating force. Now all that said I have not really seen a difference on target down range, so I choose to eliminate steps that do not make a difference. Just my observation with my reloads out of my rifle.