Quiet way to clean brass

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what is a quiet brass cleaner? I don't care of its a tumbler or sonic or SS pins just needs to be quiet, I live in a apartment at the moment.
 
I have a Tumblers tumbler "Rebel 17" and it has a very thick rubber liner that deadens the sound very well and a quiet motor..
If it's metal only it can get noisy with the shells clanging around.
 
I have had my Lortone QT-12 since my apartment-dwelling days. It is quiet and can be used for wet tumbling with SS pins or dry tumbling with corncob or walnut media.
 
Du Hast!

Frankford Arsenal has a new Rotary Tumbler with a rubber lined drum designed for wet tumbling - they also sell 5 lb. packs of S/S pins
 
Brasso is absolutely fine to use on cartridge cases. The small amount of ammonia isn't enough to do anything but make them shiny on the outside.

Maybe if you were to use enough Brasso to immerse your cases and let them soak, it would eventually dissolve them, but I don't think anybody is doing this.
 
I use ultrasonic. Not quite as bling as ss pins, but clean enough for me. Your neighbors won't hear it and no dust. I find deionized water with a small amount of the hornady brass solution and 10 minutes does the trick. Takes me an hour to clean 2-300 cases making sure they are dry after.
 
I got an old bath towel that was ready for the garbage, and some 95-99% alcohol. Take 50 or 100 fired cases to your favorite chair, dab some alcohol on your towel and twist the cases in your fist. Mine come out clean enough to see they are still good or not. When it gets to the point that the carbon just won't come off as well, a pinch of 0000 steel wool, used very gently on the necks brings 'em back to new.
Do it this way and giggle at the threads that compare wet to dry tumbling or U/Sonic and the cost of those machines... C.
 
Prior to buying a harbour freight, I had a very silent method, lol.

Sink, hot water, vinegar, salt and dish soap. Soak, scrub with nylon neck brush, oven at 200 C to dry.... If you have lots of time, it's quiet and cheap... Certainly not very efficient.
 
I started with a tumbler and switched to an ultrasonic cleaner. I would not go back to a tumbler with the cob media. I might try a wet tumbler with the SS pins. But the US cleaner works so well that I doubt it. I like that I don't need to recover the pins while unavoidably losing a few here and there over time.

I use a home brew solution of 1 part plain white vinegar to 4 to 5 parts water with a little dash of liquid laundry detergent. For rifle brass I decap first then clean. The cases and primer pockets come out almost as shiny as new with a 15 minute cycle with the temperature set to 40C. Rinse well in a sink full of fresh water and allow to dry for a couple of days just to be sure. Or you can warm them with a hair dryer blowing over the top of the casings laid out in a single layer on an old towel in a couple of hours. Of course that's more noise for the hair dryer. Just start early and let Mother Nature do the job.

The Ebay imported cheapie special US cleaner sounds like a couple of bees. Just put it in the bathroom and close the door and you won't know it's there. The pot of cleaning solution is good for about 100 rounds of rifle brass or 300 of pistol brass before I dump it and put in a fresh batch of solution.
 
used coffee can, aerosol can of mass air flow cleaner and the great out doors............takes the carbon off the necks faster then you can say "hey what is that stuff in the can???"
 
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