Whenever I get range Brass, I always tumble it in a 50/50 corn cob to walnut dry tumble. Shake it out real well, Deprime, size, trim, chamfer and deburr. Then I wet tumble it with stainless steel pins, with a splash of dawn, and lemi shine. After it tumbles for about 2-3 hours, I rinse it off with water in a franklin arms strainer on top of a 5 gallon bucket to catch the pins, and then I put it on a food dehydrator rack at about 180 degrees for 2 hours. Brass comes out looking brand new. Also I find that on the bottom of the wet tumbler. Some brass shavings do like to settle, so I dump all my pins in a 5 gallon bucket, carefully dump the water and then dump all the pins onto a towel, and then use a magnet inside of a plastic cup to pick up and put back in my tumblers. As Im using the harbor freight 2x 3lb dual rock tumblers.
if you ever wanna try dry tumbling again, try mixing a little mineral spirits in your dry tumbler. it keep the dust down and helps with cleaning. Just put enough mineral spirits to make the media look a little damp
I have never dried any brass. Dump them on a large bath towel, sea-saw them back and forth for a minute or two and lay them out to air dry. In the morning they'll be dry.
No, I have ran multiple loads through them. No damage yet. I'm sure eventually I'll need to replace them. I only use them on occasion when I have less than 400-500 pcs I need to clean.
Most primers use a priming compound that contains lead. When you dry tumble, especially when separating the media from the brass, you are exposed to dust containing lead. The fine dust also coats your "clean" brass and gets all over you press, dies, bench, hands, clothes, furniture, etc. When wet tumbling, there is no dust.
Is there specific reason to use Dawn? Asking, since that is not available here in Finland. We also don't have Lemi Shine, but I suppose it is mostly citric acid?
Lemi shine is almost entirely citric acid, I think the rest is just lemon scent. You can use just about any dish liquid, dawn is just fairly ubiquitous here in the US. 👍
A small amount of Lemishine makes it shiny. Cosmetic only. Too much will tarnish it though. For the large FA tumbler, a 9mm case full is plenty. People will say many thing, use this or that, pins or no pins, hot water or cold. The basics are this... pins are optional, cold water works as well as hot, all the store bought cleaning packs/chemicals are not needed. Just cold water, little Dawn, hour or so in the tumbler, and you have clean brass.
@@Namerifrats Thanks but I don't think you understood my question. There is a liquid Lemi Shine Rinse and then there is the powdered Lemi Shine Booster. Are they the same??
@@elmerfudd7674 I apologize, I did misunderstand. I have personally never used the rinse. I have always used the powder booster and have had excellent results. It's just an option or preference thing honestly. I don't think that one would work better than the other.
Its not "either walnut or corncob" - its both. You need two tumblers. When you're finishing wood or metal you don't use just ONE grit of sandpaper or steel wool, you use multiple grit.
I've done the dry, varies methods. Takes too long, dust, etc. I can do 1000 cases in an hour and a half, only once, with this method. No dust, and cleaner brass.
I will definitely convert from dry media to wet w/pins. I do get real good results with dry media but, it does not clean the primer pockets or inside the case. Thank you for your help especially since I responded to an older video.
