Cleaning inside brass

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Hey I tried cleaning brass for my first time. I used white vinegar with some water and a table spoon of salt. It worked amazing! Now the shells did fill with the water vinegar concoction, so will this rust the inside of the shell? I don't have any dies or a press to take the primers out yet. The shells I cleaned are 8x57, .243 win, .270 win, .303 brit, 44 mag, .223, 9mm and 7.5x55. The 9mm and the .44 would be easy to clean the inside. I was thinking of letting them air dry, then using a blow dryer. Would this work or is there a better method.
 
You really don't need to specially clean the inside. That'll be cleaned when you dunk the cases in your vinegar. And brass doesn't rust, but it can exude copper.
Onto a cookie sheet(a foil one will do) and into an oven set on the lowest temperature for about 15 minutes. Do not touch 'em for another 15 when they come out.
 
Put your shells in a case or rock tumbler with medium or rice no need to wet or dry leave over night or several hrs
 
jrcarbine said:
Hey I tried cleaning brass for my first time. I used white vinegar with some water and a table spoon of salt. It worked amazing! Now the shells did fill with the water vinegar concoction, so will this rust the inside of the shell? I don't have any dies or a press to take the primers out yet. The shells I cleaned are 8x57, .243 win, .270 win, .303 brit, 44 mag, .223, 9mm and 7.5x55. The 9mm and the .44 would be easy to clean the inside. I was thinking of letting them air dry, then using a blow dryer. Would this work or is there a better method.
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Brass does not rust.
If the cleaning solution didn't ruin the outside of the casing, why would it suddenly ruin the inside of the casing?
Take the cases and suspend them case mouth down from something like a piece of expanded metal, or a smoker rack.
 
I use the same solution, but deprime first and that way I get the primer pockets clean. I simply rinse them under warm water, shake the water out and let dry on a towel. Works great.
 
Same recipe for canned sockeye, salt & vinegar. Wet tumbling for my brass :). Find wet and tumbling makes no difference for regular brass aside from the aesthetics of really shiny brass inside and out OOOOPretty.
jrcarbine said:
Hey I tried cleaning brass for my first time. I used white vinegar with some water and a table spoon of salt. It worked amazing! ...
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burnaby said:
Same recipe for canned sockeye, salt & vinegar. Wet tumbling for my brass :). Find wet and tumbling makes no difference for regular brass aside from the aesthetics of really shiny brass inside and out OOOOPretty.
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Make's a huge difference resizing. Got some once fired 308 brass from a member here that was fired in an oversized chamber. After SS tumbling sizing was a lot easier.
 
After they are cleaned dump then into a cheap dollar store plastic colander and rinse them in regular water. To encourage the inside to rinse out well I tumble them around by hand in the colander with the brass in the rinse water. Then I lift the colander out of the rinse water and tumble the brass around to drain. Then back into the rinse water and tumble them while under water to fill the cases. Repeat this hand tumbling in the air then water a couple of times to ensure that the brass is well rinsed inside as well as out. Then lay it out to dry for a few days or force dry with a hair dryer arranged to blow over top of the brass.
 
or better yet,,get yourself a nice set/stainless pin tumbler and you'll get perfectly clean brass inside and out,,almost like new,,even with cruty old range brass,,once you get one,,you'll never go back to the old ways,,,LOL..not there is anything wrong with the old ways,,,
 
For range brass wet tumbling made a big difference in the 44Mag bought from CSR. Suppose to be cleaned, once fired; turned out to be dirty range brass, some with splits so once fired my a$$. HDY LNL had problems resizing after dry tumble but after SS tumble sized smoothly.
My own brass no difference dry or wet tumbling beside wet is SHINY in and out.
zuke said:
Make's a huge difference resizing. Got some once fired 308 brass from a member here that was fired in an oversized chamber. After SS tumbling sizing was a lot easier.
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hootguy said:
or better yet,,get yourself a nice set/stainless pin tumbler and you'll get perfectly clean brass inside and out,,almost like new,,even with cruty old range brass,,once you get one,,you'll never go back to the old ways,,,LOL..not there is anything wrong with the old ways,,,
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Or even much better yet, don't worry what the inside of the case looks like. if it looks too dirty for your liking, simply fill the case with powder and seat a bullet on top.

Outta sight, outta mind.....
 
couple/three hundred brass with an ounce of dish soap, litres of warm water, & an ounce of super clean in a bucket; agitate agitate agitate; rinse like hell, twice; lay out on a cookie sheet while shaking out the brass (five to ten at a time, depending on hand size; why add excess water to evaporate?); bake at 250 for ten minutes. Sometimes I use the kitchen sink, deep old stainless tub it is... Leave to cool.

Works well! One time I walked away from the oven and got blue heat treated brass (300 deg for 45 minutes)... shot fine, but I don't know what the overheating did to the brass. Shortened its life for sure! It'll be the first to get the chuck.
 
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