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Can anyone show me some before & after pictures of sonic cleaned brass? I'm thinking about investing in one but want to make sure that it is worth it.

The reason that I am considering this is with .223 brass a tumbler will not clean the inside of the cases, but I think that a sonic cleaner should.

Are there any brands that are better than others?

How long does the liquid that they use last before it needs to be changed?

Thanks!
 
Some of my brass end up looking like brand new inside some not. I use a cleaner from ebay and the hornady solution. The outside of the cases looks like brand new and shiny. If you want perfectly clean insides I would recommend going with stainless pins.
 
I got all 3 methods, I mainly use the stainless pins now due to quantity. My ultrasonic is a Branson 3liter model. Great unit(they're industrial grade, and not cheap either) but I can only do I think 50ish 260-308size cases at once, takes at least 1hr, 2 is better, a bit more if you really want not a spot left inside or in the primer pocket, but it does work, right solution helps. So either gotta have a big unit to process a lot at once, or tumbler with pins. I use 10lbs of pins in a drum I made, can do a few 100's at once, 1000+if it was pistol cases, the old lathe spins it slow and 45-60mins or so they're ready and shiny. Tumbling is a little harder on brass over time but ain't enough to worry about it.

Either one gets them plenty nice and clean to reload, its really a quantity/time thing to me.
 
US cleaning sucks for cases IMO. I have a large US cleaner, quite powerful, I dont even use it to clean cases. I use it to clean gun parts with simple green HD(really good at cleaning gun parts).

Go SS pins if you want something good.

I can process 1000 223 cases at a time in my home built unit. look like new in and out.
 
Ok, so where do you get the media for the stainless steel cleaners, and can someone postmsome pics / secs of one of these home built units?
 
AndrewNS said:
Ok, so where do you get the media for the stainless steel cleaners, and can someone postmsome pics / secs of one of these home built units?
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http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/search.php?searchid=6394064


he has some for sale,
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/928809-Stainless-Tumbling-Media


i bought a lyman 700 for small batches of 500mag brass and was disappointed as i was expecting clean shiny brass, i only got clean brass. media tumbling or stainless steel is the way to go for shiny brass. also it stopped working after 15-20 batches, i will figure it out when i have time.
 
AndrewNS said:
Ok, so where do you get the media for the stainless steel cleaners, and can someone postmsome pics / secs of one of these home built units?
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This is the tumbler that I have built. Works great, I do roughly 500-700 pistol brass at one time for a couple hours and they come out REALLY SHINEY!!!
I went with a verticle design to keep the footprint small as you can see I don't have alot of room
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