Cleaning your sizing die
- Thread starter Slooshark1
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If you're using the spray on lube, its basically just lanolin dissolved in alcohol.
I just spray some 99% alcohol into mine to rinse it out, but I do this just before sizing the last few cases in a batch. This leaves a slight coating of lube in the die for storage between uses. I actually rinse like this a time or two while sizing a batch of casings just to prevent build up of lanolin. This is fairly convenient and alcohol (isopropyl) is cheap as dirt.
I just spray some 99% alcohol into mine to rinse it out, but I do this just before sizing the last few cases in a batch. This leaves a slight coating of lube in the die for storage between uses. I actually rinse like this a time or two while sizing a batch of casings just to prevent build up of lanolin. This is fairly convenient and alcohol (isopropyl) is cheap as dirt.
ricciardelli
CGN Regular
- Location
- Montana, USA
Take 'em apart and toss them in a metal meatloaf pan with some TCE or MEK.
Stir them around a little and then let them air dry.
Stir them around a little and then let them air dry.
- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
Lee lube cleans out with warm water and a short cleaning rod
You should clean the seating die every 200 or so times with a bit of Hoppes or such. Still if you have a compressore then you can blast it out if you have put enough cleaner in there.
Personally I have found I just need to dump the complete die in "Dunk It" for around an hour then hit it with a compressor & it will be as clean as a whistle.
Mind you "Dunk It" is only avaliable from Cylinder & Slide shop in the States, though you only need around a pint of it in a plastic container that often contained some form of food. This is for extreme cases while the bit of cleaning in it with the addition of tooth pick of something else is all that is needed if you do it every so often. Better still disamble the die in the first place.
I cought myself needing the extreme measures after something like over 10,000 rnds.
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Opps you are referring to your "resizing" die so my error. How in the heck do you get such a filthy die for do you not tumble & have clean brass when starting to reload? I feel that is a must to the rest of your equipment as well.
Personally I have found I just need to dump the complete die in "Dunk It" for around an hour then hit it with a compressor & it will be as clean as a whistle.
Mind you "Dunk It" is only avaliable from Cylinder & Slide shop in the States, though you only need around a pint of it in a plastic container that often contained some form of food. This is for extreme cases while the bit of cleaning in it with the addition of tooth pick of something else is all that is needed if you do it every so often. Better still disamble the die in the first place.
I cought myself needing the extreme measures after something like over 10,000 rnds.
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Opps you are referring to your "resizing" die so my error. How in the heck do you get such a filthy die for do you not tumble & have clean brass when starting to reload? I feel that is a must to the rest of your equipment as well.
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- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
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