Thread: Wet Tumbling

I used to use citric acid, but decided that they got shiny enough without it, and didn't have to think about particular elements being leeched from the brass.

So now I just clean dirty brass in the tumbler with plain water and dishwash before sizing, dry, lube/size/deprime, then before loading I clean the lube off in the tumbler again, with a hefty dollop (dependent on volume of water going into tumbler) of cheapish car wash. Car wash stops it tarnishing afterwards.