Your brass would become cleaner if you decap your cases first. If not you end up with a very wet primer pocket when you go to load as the old primer holds moisture plus your primer pockets remain dirty. Later David
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I did a large 2nd batch of nothing but deprimed 223s yesterday. They all appeared to dry out just fine
Yep, that'll work. I tried wet tumbling but had no SS pins so I used small stainless steel nuts, screws, washers and cotter pins (#6, #8, and #10). I got a good finish but didn't like the hassle (mix up liquid, tumble, drain, rinse, drain, dry). I didn't see an improvement over walnut or cob media (if the feller needs 8 hrs. to clean brass in his walnut/cob media, sum ding wong!) and wet cleaned, bare metal, brass will tarnish much quicker than my dry media with a touch of wax/polish that leaves a thin film of protection on the brass...
Lots of folks really like wet tumbling w/SS pins but I'm fine without it, and my brass is clean enough (my Garand and 1911 brass gets a good polish so I can find them after being ejected hither and yon, and it does not take 8 hrs.!).
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Interesting video - makes a guy want to keep his eyes open for a used ice cream maker! Thank goodness they have motor driven ones . . . the ones I used when I was a kid were hand crank! Great idea - thanks for posting!
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As soon as I heard he had .223's and .45 acp's, I said to myself that was not a good combination. Sure enough, as soon as he dumped the brass out, I could see a few .223's inside .45 acp's, so some probably didn't get cleaned properly.
If I would've run 45s only, then someone would've said "yeah, but how does it do on 223s" lol
Learned something today--thanks
I use the SS pins but that's mostly so I can have more stuff to lose or require more effort. And I have the time.
Glad it works so well without all the bells and chimes
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Spent primers work good on to clean the brass if you do not have the SS pins, But two draw backs to that some will reset themselves back into the primer pockets and if your doing 223 they hang up in the brass. For brass with larger openings like 38 45s and 30 cals its not to bad.
Reloading to save money I am sure the saving is going to start soon
I have been wet cleaning my capped brass for a long time, and this isn't a problem for me at all. I will bake the (still capped) cases if I want to use them right away, but 95% of my wet cleaned brass is tumbled in corn cob to dry, and then further air-dried for as little as overnight, and I have not run into any issues, yet. I'm in a dry climate, so YMMV. I don't clean primer pockets, either. I decap/reprime my pistol ammo in the same operation.If not you end up with a very wet primer pocket when you go to load as the old primer holds moisture
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I think an important part of the trial run is the feller tumbling the brass didn't use pins. He showed that brass only, in a solution will polish up nice...
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OP what media were you using that you needed to tumble for 8 hours! I've never tumbled for more than 2 hours to get clean, shiny brass.
Careful .429, some folks on here dont have much of a sense of humor, and there will be 3 pages of why you shouldn't tumble with grass clippings.....
One time I see these guys that were coming into a boat dock and they had a nice stringer of trout. I asked what they were using for bait. One snickered and said "bubble gum". Some similar things here.
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