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    I'm interested in the sonic cleaner route also.
    It seems simpler but I'm wondering why you go back to the corn media tumbler for a second clean ?
    Does the sonic cleaner miss something?
    1.5 liter seems a good size

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    I have an ultrasonic cleaner. About 1.8L capacity.
    I use 1.5 L of nearly boiling water, 2 tsp of citric acid (cheapest house brand) and 2 tsp of dishwashing liquid.
    Its maximum cycle is 8 minutes. For the first couple of loads this is sufficient. Subsequent loads need a 2nd cycle.

    After ultrasonic cleaning I oven dry the cases at 120 C for 10 minutes and then allow to dry on a clean towel.

    The cases don't come out shiny but do come out clean. I never have to separately clean primer pockets.

    The residual dirty water goes on the lawn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by widerange View Post
    I'm interested in the sonic cleaner route also.
    It seems simpler but I'm wondering why you go back to the corn media tumbler for a second clean ?
    Does the sonic cleaner miss something?
    1.5 liter seems a good size
    The reasoning for the media tumble was only to remove case lube, if I do a bump or f/l resize and also if there was any water left in the case this would get rid of it.
    Presently trying out the lee collett die so no case lube ( or going into media tumbler ) untill a case bump is indicated


    This photo shows a small improvement on the cases.... admittedly they are once fired and have been tumbled on a corn media tumbler prior to this but I was impressed how it ( the sonic ) removed the annealing colour band

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