YouTube Brass Wet Tumbling With Vinegar Long Term Results 

Years ago I was shown to use liquid car wash and Lemi-shine. I have been using a car wash with wax mixed at the same ratio of dawn and lemi and my brass comes out spotless and with the wax coat stays that way. The wax coat also helps the water to come off after final rinse. And no the wax coat hasn't cause me issues. The car wash actually works better than Dawn and if you don't want the wax coat simply buy it without it in the car wash. I have been using the orange colored Armor All and also used Meguiar's in the past with the same results, it's cheap and works great.

Your Lemi-shine/Dawn results reflect my results. Years later, brass still looks good. 👍

Those flash holes @ 1:54 would drive me crazy. I'd need to deburr them right away.

A few caps of Vinegar is good to remove discoloration and blemishes. I learned this when I experimented leaving my wet tumbler all night. It had enough time to absorb the contaminants from the water. The entire batch became black! Vinegar got it clean again. With that said, Dawn and Lemishine does a better job in polishing . Adding vinegar dulls the shine a tad.

Your the such a great guy! Glad to see you're still making videos Mr.Lc

Thanks for all you do.

Happy New Year Steve.....

I actually have gone back to an old vibratory tumbler, from ultrasonic. To the walnut media, I add a cup of fine ground carborundum to remove 99% of the blemished brass. An hour in the vibrator is all it takes. Ultrasonic, I had to wait for it to dry, or force it by setting it in the oven on low. Vinegar, is a weak acid, so it makes sense to use such. I gave up on corn cob media, because it takes too long. I would have to let the tumber run for 5 or 6 hours to get the results I wanted. I'm still using the same single stage press I started with 45 years ago. I sat down and calculated out a few years back, what investing in a Progressive would take, and I simply don't shoot enough to offset the cost invested vs cost savings to justify purchasing one. The funny thing though, is I shoot more often and frequently than the buddies I have who own Progressives do. Besides, I enjoy the process of reloading as much as I enjoy the shooting. The careful attention to detail, and the crafting and work to develop the best possible load for guns I own satisfy's my inner Asberger's Syndrome OCD. I do appreciate seeing the vids of what others are doing. Happiness isn't just a clean gun. It's clean brass too. 😊

Glade to see you on u tube . I'll stay with the le mey shine and dare. Works for me .vthanks again.

Great video like always!!

I’ve been using “Brass Juice Case Wash” for almost three years. The results have been consistently superb! I first de-prime the brass; washing the cases in hot water with dish soap. Using the prescribed measure of the BJCW with distilled water, I put the brass into my Frankford Arsenal Wet Tumbler. After one to two hours (depending on the amount of brass cases), I then pour out the used solution into gallon containers (re-used multiple times). I simply rinse the brass with some distilled water before drying with my Frankford Arsenal dryer. The brass is prevented from oxidizing over a period of several months. No steel pins, no other solutions. After countless of thousands of brass for multiple caliper ammo, I still have not used up the original bottle!

I used to use walnut hull with a few capfuls of dillion brass polish back 20 years ago. I am just now getting back into reloading again after a long hiatus.

I have some ammunition that had the brass cleaned with dilute vinegar and Dawn dishwahing liquid. It was loaded and stored in GI cans some 28 years ago and still looks like new. Periodic testing has not shown any misfires or reduction in accuracy over the years. It works great.

Thank you. I'm going to order tumbler and dryer now.👍👍👍

Another good one thank.

Good to see you again Steve. I would love to meet in person some day

Hello! I actually found your channel when I set up my Lee Turret Press, and I was curious if I should trust the Lee Auto Drum. I've been using a Frankford Arsenal Intellidropper, and it's been great, but I liked the convenience of the Auto Drum. The video of yours I watched was from 2015, but once I finished that video, I subscribed and looked to see if you were still uploading! I'm glad you are! Thank you for the excellent content! Take care!

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I use Dawn and 100% citric acid. Amazon has the citric acid. I get very similar results. Almost new looking brass even from tarnished range pick ups

Great to see your videos. I've been using walnut hull media and then I throw in 6 to 12 used dryer sheets with the brass. The dryer sheets seem to collect a lot of the residue from the vibrating cleaning. The walnut hull is a lot cleaner than the corn cob at the start. The dryer sheets come out very dark and the brass is clean with no residue.

I started competitive shooting in 1982 and have taken on numerous experiments to clean cases , mostly rifle which is harder than pistol . I concluded that using Ivory clear liquid in the US and stainless steel media in a Lortone rock tumbler was the best and least expensive method . In NZ Ivory is not available and have found a cheap soap Solitarire , a solid , made for dishwashers to work very well. The real trick in all of this was the usage of RCBS Lube 2 which is a water dissolved lube of very high viscosity that no other lube I've tried even came close to,, it is NOT petroleum and as a result breaks down in water and soap . M Maxberry

I tried tumbling some old over 100-300 Weatherby Magnum brass with polishing medium for 5 hours and they came out with large corrosive marks on a few of them. So, I tried using dawn with the Lemmi shine booster and they still had the marks after2 hours, with little to no removal. I then went into the bath room and retrieved the toilet cleaner and i squirted some of that into the Dawn, lemmi shine mix and within a few minutes the marks were gone. Toilet cleaner has an acid in it. I remember using Nitric Acid on my shells in the late 60s , you could get it at gun shows in a plastic bottle. I was around 11 or 12 years old. Yes, I even reloaded my own brass for my 30-30, I molded the 176 grain bullets with a Lyman Bullet mold. The bullets took gas checks to keep from leading up the Barrel.

Lemi Shine is just a different weak acid. Citric acid instead of acetic acid. The vinegar would most likely react with any lead residues to make lead acetate.

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I have a wet tumbler and use a table spoon of LemiShine and a drop of Dawn dishwashing soap and enough warm water to cover the brass plus about an inch extra. Tumble with stainless steel pins for 2 hours and the brass comes out looking like new. Only issue is that the Lyman tumbler does not seal water tight unless I use Gorilla strength on tightening the cap. Why they did not use an O-ring and groove system to EASILY seal the drum I don't know but going to that would be a HUGE improvement. I made a plywood tool for this that looks like s big "U" with a 12" plywood handle at the bottom of the U. Works great. Nothing short of this will make this tumbler seal water-tight. Also, I never tumble any cases unless they have been deprimed. I want the primer pocket and hole to be clean too and this does it.

Seems like just about any way you go wet tumbling in general is way better all the way around than dry tumbling,, at least to my findings,, I've tried many different "recipes" in the wet tumbler and all of them seem to get clean nice brass as a result,,, I'll never use my dry tumblers again lets just put it that way.

I had a question regarding twist rates of your Thompson center and you Remington 700 223 rifles, I had watched your ammo test from a few years back thank you for the videos

Re: contaminants from dry tumbling. Absolutely, yes. After tumbling with walnut and sifting that off, I then tumble with denim strips (cut from old pants) damp with 91% or 99% alcohol for about a half hour. This gets any remaining dust. Then I replace with clean, dry denim strips qnd tumble overnight or even for two days. I get an exceptional polish with the denim strip tumbling

I deprime first, and use a quarter cup vinegar with a spritz of dish soap and let it run for an hour. I tried barkeeper's friend once, and while it was cleaner, it came out matte rather than shiny.

I have always used Dishwasher detergent for 1 hour, rinse and then 1 hour with car wax shampoo. Dry the cases in a dehydrator.

I can’t stand the smell of vinegar, but it’s nice to know I can use it in a pinch.

There are many additional uses for vinegar! Virtual every hiuse has a bottle sitting around.

This is the first new video that RU-vid has posted from you. I do follow you or I thought I did just to say the last time I saw you on RU-vid you were a lot younger with black hair. I hope everything is OK. We’ll have to check my subscription.

I use Palmolive dish washing liquid and vinegar. I run the tumbler the full three hours and my cases look like new inside and out.

So does the vinegar damage the tensile strength of the brass cutting down on number times it can be relòaded or does it damage the case making it weaker or susceptible to case repture

Tumble in walnut media and Lucas polish and they’ll look like high polished gold. That shine has so far lasted 9 mo in the open in my basement.

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15 deg in texas, could you give us the recipe for using vinegar again

Can you do a video on how to use the vintage 2 die reloading die sets for like 45acp? The steel dies. I have a set but no instructions. I bet there’s a lot of people out there that have an old set but may not know how to use them.

It would be fun to decap the Lemishine .45acp cases and run the through the vinegar to see the differences. Have you ever tried adding some vinegar to the Lemishine mixture?

I need a bigger brass tumbler. I have a small harbor freight rock tumbler that I use. In early 2023 I started collecting a little brass every time I go to the range. I have almost three 5 gal buckets full of 9mm and one bucket full of .223/5,56 brass. Thats not counting all the coffee cans full of rifle calibers and other pistol calibers. I was thinking of the big Frankford Arsenal tumbler.

Lemishine with Maguire Wash & Shine. Looks new and stays so for months

Do you rinse the brass with distilled water after you pour off the cleaning mixture? And how do you dispose of the dirty cleaning mixture with Dawn? Thank You

I doubt if the type of acid you use so long as you don’t use too much

Was there any media used with these tumbled brass cases?

Did you use steel pins for your wet tumble, or just water/vinegar/brass?

That RWS headstamp 45 Auto brass looks cheepo next to the Federal brass.

Greetings from Brazil.. When I use vinegar to clean my 9mm cases not tumbling but just shaking then for a few minutes, they become tarnished after a few days. What can I do to avoid this result? Thanks for any assistance

Only thing I don’t like is if you don’t dry the cases directly after washing I get a lot of water spots. I usually dry in the oven or throw in a corn cob media for about a half hour to dry the cases. I keep clean corn cob media to dry cases. That’s just me.

I can't remember where I heard it, but I recall it being said that vinegar weakens brass.

I will stick with the Dawn and Lemishine. Vinegar is for making pickles!

Hello Looking for the lead tin combo for 45 70 loads 1800-2000 fps range ? Any suggestions Thanks

I've been reloading 40 yrs A little skeptical of wet tumbling And getting them.dry

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I noticed the 9mm shown in this video at 1min and 50 sec, the primer holes were a lot different in size. How do you fix a primer pocket that has stretched too big to hold the primer in place?

Any tumble media?

honest question... who cares what your brass looks like? I've been reloading for 40 years and I just use standard walnut media with no additives and a couple torn up dryer sheets and I've never had an issue that I'm aware of caused by brass cleaning.. Seems like an unnecessary extra step...

vinegar and limi-shine both make your cleaning solution acidic, so there technically is no difference, use one of the other.

With or without stainless pins?

I don’t have Lemi shine in my area. What else could I use with the dawn?

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Vinegar will deteriorate the brass over time.

That will ruin your brass alloy, leaving nothing but copper. SOFT copper that self-destructs on firing.