I jut ordered a new 15lbs of walnut media, but when that media goes bad I think I'll be wet cleaning brass forevermore.
Oh fuck, let me guess, there's some who don't like shiny brass?Shiny wet brass?
Not only that, but if that car wash soap had a wax in it, you have waxed shiny brass.
Gunpowder residue has a pH of 7-9 so the lemon juice helps solubilize that material and soapy water removes it from the brass surface. Most of the homemade recipes for cleaning brass I have seen all contain some acid (lemon juice or Lemishine) so that lower pH is doing a bulk of the work. You aren't missing anything.
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Stainless pins have been proven to be bullshit for a long time. The only thing they really do is scrape some of the carbon off the inside and primer pockets, which is pointless. Carbon inside the case is actually beneficial, it acts as lube for mandrels and bullet seating while helping to prevent cold welds. Pins or SS media are more likely to cause far more damage than any perceived benefit. They are also a pain in the ass to deal with and just add time and more steps.
You're missing nothing. I've been doing exactly that for years except I use a rotary tumbler to do the stirring while I go do something else.
I blasted that shit with lemon juice though. haha. Wife had 4 bottles of it and one looked old AF, so I just poured 4oz of it into the water with some squirts of dawn. No more than 3 minutes agitating those cases were popping.
I've done the same thing and got nice clean brass. Though this technique doesn't quite take care of the oxidation film left on necks and shoulders after annealing. And, of course, it doesn't do a whole lot with the brass's interior, which is just fine by me. It's the SS pins that cleans out the interior of the cases very well, even the bottoms of the primer pockets. What technique to use really depends on what results your want, like . . . what to do about brass that's ejected into mud and guck that gets inside the cases.
Alcohol swab to remove sizing lube, chamfer particles, cookie crumbs, etc. I don't look to completely remove the remaining micron layer of carbon in the necks. In case of cold welding...
On snap. Good to know. I will keep the new walnut shipment then, and not shitcan my Lyman tumbler.
@FredHammer see this some of that stupid shit I was talking about
How can you prove that it doesnt?
Oh I sees it…
What damage? I seen none on my brass.
The point of wet tumbling isn't to clean the inside of the shells. Nobody cares about the inside. Or the primer pockets.
Test it for yourself, as I did. You can feel the difference with just your fingers (assuming you have any sensitivity in your fingers
). It's MILOA...try to pay attention
Wrong, the cold water shrinks the case back to where it fits in the chamber like it did before you blew it up.
Test it for yourself, as I did. You can feel the difference with just your fingers (assuming you have any sensitivity in your fingers
Correlation is not the same as causation.
Apparent, by your content, that your last sentence above also includes yourself.
Saw those water spots, so I sprayed them down in bulk with the Hornady One shot. Now they won't rust and ready for sizing too.
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