Have you guys had any luck cleaning dirty 22lr jackets without pins? Maybe with an ultrasonic?
Have you guys had any luck cleaning dirty 22lr jackets without pins? Maybe with an ultrasonic?
Super small bottle brush
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I just tumble with dawn and citric acid in a cement mixer for an hour or so and they are clean enough for my swagging.
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Mine are pretty clean but not squeaky spotless inside. I guess that's good enough. I tumbled mine in a FART for about the same time using the same stuff. I did the pins once and it made me want to jump off a bridge. I'm sure a small brush would work but I'm trying to do a lot of them.
Are you having trouble separating the pins? I tossed my into a salad spinner and give it a few spins back and forth.
I don't hate them, but only rarely use them any more.
It takes lees time to turn a new derimming punch than separating 5 lbs of pins a few batches of rimfire brass.
Like Rancher1913, citric acid and dawn do a pretty good job for me too.
To lazy to chase arrows.
Clodhopper
yep, I have an FA separator, too. If i had to use that for .22 cases I'd be quitting as well.
The cases tend to fall through the cracks of the dehydrator too. I started putting them on the part that's used for making fruit roll-ups.
As far as I know the Dillon media separators are the only ones I know of that the holes/grooves are not bigger then derimed 22lr brass.
Southern Shine media is pretty good at not getting stuck in cases.
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Try copper plated BB's I've used the SS chips as well but they may bunch up in those small cases. Another trick I use is removing the water and straining out what ever media I can, then place the cases back in the tumbler with a 1"x2"x3/8" strong ceramic magnet from HF. I tuble them for several minutes to collect the media that falls out of the cases. I'm using the Original F.A.R.T.
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When the roughness starts to cause problems.
To lazy to chase arrows.
Clodhopper
My FART holds 22LR by the rim and drops the pins.
You can always go "old-school" & boil the daylights out of 'em! I bought a HF ultrasonic for prep'ing the empties before de-rimming but the boiling method seems to works just as well. For the record, neither boiling or ultrasonic gets them squeaky clean.
After annealing, SS pins are all that seem to work good enough to get the jackets GTG. I use a kitchen colander to separate.
Last edited by pertnear; 09-01-2020 at 11:25 AM.
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I use two containers from the 99cent store, the larger one on bottom and the one with drain holes on top. I fill the container with water about 4"high. Then set the one manufactured with small holes on top. I then empty the drum with shells and pins on top. All that is needed is to swish them around and the pins fall into the lower container. I also have an old shopping hand basket that is made of a fine wire mesh screen. I use the same method with the basket.
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