Thread: Best time to clean brass

I also don't have a tumbler or ultra sonic - but its on the list.

I've been very lucky that a mate from my Sporting rifle club will run my brass when he is running his own. Thanks Mike S!
I had however picked up a lyman brush set which you put your necks into graphite with as well and it was only a couple of dollars so at a push and if I have a more urgent need I'll brush the insides, deprime and brush again.

After that I check the brass lengths and trim and chamfer before sizing neck or full length. Seems to work for me and I don't get a lot of variance or crap on my dies (even though I regularly give them a once over with wet an dry) after having a new Redding 300 Blk sizing die get stuck on the 5th one. - Not falling for that again!!!

Don't know if this is what every one else does but it works nicely for me.

CD

If they are dirty a wash with hot water dish washing liquid and a table spoon of vinegar does a great job, Get a big plastic container with a screw top put in the cases and hot water mix and give a good shake
for a few minutes tip the cases into a sieve and run the hot tap over them to rinse off the crude lay them in the sun to dry or oven set at 100c, you could deprime them first if you have a decaping die,
A tumbler is a better idea than a sonic cleaner cheaper to run you don't have to buy expensive liquid cleaning fluid and they don't polish the cases, with a tumbler if you wash the cases first the media lasts
longer and there are a few ways of cleaning up the media,
Anybody using Lee or any other water soluble case lube biff it, it will rust your dies if not cleaned out, Imperial die wax is it best case lube hands down.

Originally Posted by shooternz

If they are dirty a wash with hot water dish washing liquid and a table spoon of vinegar does a great job, Get a big plastic container with a screw top put in the cases and hot water mix and give a good shake
for a few minutes tip the cases into a sieve and run the hot tap over them to rinse off the crude lay them in the sun to dry or oven set at 100c, you could deprime them first if you have a decaping die,
A tumbler is a better idea than a sonic cleaner cheaper to run you don't have to buy expensive liquid cleaning fluid and they don't polish the cases, with a tumbler if you wash the cases first the media lasts
longer and there are a few ways of cleaning up the media,
Anybody using Lee or any other water soluble case lube biff it, it will rust your dies if not cleaned out, Imperial die wax is it best case lube hands down.

i wash dish washing liquid as well but the last thing i do is rinse in meths to help dry them