Just out of curiosity, how does nickel plated brass hold up tumbled w/ SS pins? Does it get scratched up?
Just out of curiosity, how does nickel plated brass hold up tumbled w/ SS pins? Does it get scratched up?
Never noticed any. I put them in with brass and have had no issues.
I know walnut shell with rouge will clean it too well and polish off the nickel.
Cleaned many nickel 357 cases in my SS tumbler and never had any issues.
nickel okay, steel not so much.
I usually just dry tumble the nickel cases.
I've never separated mine and not experienced any problem with the SS washing.
I've never noticed any difference. I don't separate for cleaning nickel plated from brass.
While tumbling brass .223 cases I had missed a single steel case in the batch and when it was done, all the cases looked like copper (bronze colored sort of). Nickel never have a problem. Bright and shiny finish.
Salute!
I have SS tumbled a lot and it depends on how long you tumble and what brand, lot, etc. of nickeled brass.
I sometimes SS tumble for several hours to get really cruddy/crusty/tarnished/carbonized brass
squeaky clean or to get rifle brass (e.g. 308) primer pockets sparkling.
On some nickeled brass the plating appears to be quite thick, and I can put it through several tumble runs
of several hours each (of course firing in between) and the nickel will look unfazed.
Some other pieces of nickeled brass, if I run it through one 3 hour session, some of the nickle will be worn off
and portions of the cartridge will appear brass colored and a bit mottled between nickel and brass colored.
You can't tell until you have worn through which has thick and which has thin plating.
I have seen the exact same caliber and headstamp brass behave differently, probably a different batch/lot/year.
Not a big deal, it all shoots the same
I've SS wet tumbled a lot of nickel plated brass - it does not get separated out. The finish comes out extremely bright - like a mirror, actually.
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