I tumble with both. I wet tumble to clean and dry tumble to get the extra shine. Maybe overkill lol, but I like it. How about y'all?
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I tumble with both. I wet tumble to clean and dry tumble to get the extra shine. Maybe overkill lol, but I like it. How about y'all?
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45 min in wet tumbler
1hr in dehydrator
15 min in corn cob
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Originally Posted by SGTREED
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I wet tumble before sizing, and dry tumble after case prep, before loading.
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I wet tumble range brass without media just some dawn for about an hour just to clean the dirt. I dry them in my toaster oven then do all my processing; resize, deprime, and flare my pistol brass. Then back into the wet tumbler with media, dawn, and lemishine for a couple hours. Then back in the toaster oven and it’s time to make some pews.
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My brass cleaning process is to decap, then wet tumble with southern shine media and dawn for 3 hours, then they go immediately into my $5 thrift store dehydrator for 3 hours, then my vibratory tumbler for 3 hours with corncob and a capful of nufinish.
I’ve tried several different methods and this is what works for me. My brass is stored in my garage in NC, and the humidity will turn the cases if I don’t put this effort into them. I’ve tried just wet tumbling and just vibratory tumbling, but using my method I have brass that’s been sitting for over 18 months now that still looks like what I’m pulling out of the tumblers now.
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I do the same. I dry tumble my finished rounds as well if I haven't written on them. To me it's not overkill. It's just taking a few minutes and putting the finishing touches on the rounds I have spent a lot of time loading and a lot of time learning how to load.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guns4545
I deprime first. Then I wet tumble with dawn and a pinch of lemishine. No media. Tumble for an hour and a half. Wash the cases off real good afterwards. Let air dry ( don’t have a dehydrator yet) for 24 hours. Then dry tumble in walnut shell pet bedding with NuFinish for another hour and a half. Comes out spotless. Range brass comes out looking new. Store them in the big plastic peanut jars with the screw on lids to keep away from humidity. Always have plenty ready for reloading time. I’m sure using stainless pins or chips gets the cases cleaner if you want to use them but for me I don’t see the need. They look new and I just shoot them and repeat so for now that’s my routine.
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I've only used corn cob media. Is walnut bedding really better? Willing to try, I do like the nufinish results.
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I think of walnut as a better cleaner and corn cob as a polisher. I clean my brass using a mixture of about 90% walnut and 10% corn cob with a bit of a polish added...Quote:
Originally Posted by E75bug
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I have all three methods. Wet tumble and walnut are very good cleaners. I use corn cob media for the ultimate shine if desired. Picture attached is wet tumble only for 2 hours. All three methods work great though. Attachment 396Quote:
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The pet bedding works really good to clean brass if you use the walnut. Corn cob polishes better but if you decide to use pet bedding only use the walnut. The cob pet bedding is smaller then brass cob cleaner and it will get stuck in your brass cases and in the primer pocket. It’s a bitch to clean out. I tried the cob pet bedding and had to use a small punch to get the cob out of about 3/4’s of my cases.Quote:
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I sonic clean work my brass then use my Lyman vibratory tumbler. My preference and works well. Pic is from brass I shothttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0bffa96919.jpg today after 15 minutes in Sonic Cleaner.
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Looks good bud [emoji106]Sent from my SM-N910V using TapatalkQuote:
Originally Posted by Clopez
This is exactly what I do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingrich09
If your grabbing very dirty and corroded range brass wet tumbling is the way to get it done , the process of wet tumbling has a few extra steps but the final clean is worth it .
I wet tumble when I first get range brass but then just use cob for the next few tumblings and then wet tumble again