Cleaning reloading tooling - what do you use?

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Tonight I received a mixed bag of small reloading tooling. (bottom of a box of hunting stuff at a garage sale ) Shell holders, de-burring tools, Lee trimmer shafts, trimmer pilots etc. Never knew that RCBS provided individual shell holders in their own little plastic boxes...

There's some crud and a bit of rust on this stuff. Not really bad but would like to clean it up to sell because I don't need it all. Never had to clean tooling in this condition.

I'd like to hear what some of you use.

Regards
Ronr

PS. I have an ultrasonic cleaner
 
I use my wet tumbler for a lot of small part's. Work's great on razor's! Get's the crud off and turn's green brass to new again
 
An ultrasonic with heat, with the appropriate cleaner agent (I use the hornady stuff) would work well.

Otherwise there are the old manual methods, of using either brake cleaner or mineral spirits. Boiling hot water afterwards (so it dries quickly) as a rinse and compressed air to clean. Then relube with CLP. I use motor oil on press parts / internal parts of dies. Stuff like shell holders, i'd just use my G96 clp though.
 
zuke said:
I use my wet tumbler for a lot of small part's. Work's great on razor's! Get's the crud off and turn's green brass to new again
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One time I accidentally dropped my shell holder in the wet tumbler with a batch of brass. The she'll holder came out copper coloured lol. Must have reacted with the citric acid/detergents along with the excess copper in the brass.
 
Thanks all,

I'm a little adverse to the elbow grease for this situation. :redface:

Has anyone used the parts cleaning solution from Hornady or Lyman in a ultrasonic?

Regards
Ronr

PS. Thanks very much for the tip on evaporust stuff. Looked that up. Neat s%^t. These aren't that bad but I've got some files and other tools that will get that for sure.
 
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