Dillon Case Lube: Suggestions for easy removal?

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I love full length sizing with Dillon Case Lube. That stuff sprays on and goes a long way. For those of you who find RCBS Case Lube too gooey, I suggest switching over to the Dillon pump spray, it's alcohol based.... dries up and leaves the waxy feeling on the case....

Now here's the problem... after resizing and depriming, I'm reluctant to toss the newly resized and deprimed cases back into the tumbler (corn cob media) to remove the lube. The lube has to get off the cases before I throw the powder and seat the bullets. In the past I would tumble the lubed cases, but poking a pin through the primer holes is a PITA when you process 300 cases at a time like I do for Service Rifle matches.

Question: Anyone of you out there know of a solution to wipe off the Dillon case lube, quickly and easily ? It would help if said solution was readily available at Home Depot, Cambodian Tire or Home Hardware.

Cheers all,

Barney
 
Barney,

What i did was to tumble as you suggested, in fresh corn cob media, then run the cases through the press a second time, starting with an undersized Lee collet die in station one. I just pulled the mandrel out and polished it down a few .001. I'd adjust the die so the shellplate didn't make contact, and press into the case neck.

On the Dillon, I took two passes through to process brass before loading. First pass was a full length small base size, deprime, pocket swage, and case trim. Second pass was simply clearing the flash holes, and priming.

Anal, but when you process 5000 at a time, it pays to be efficient. Stoping because of a bent case, missed primer, spilled powder, etc was not efficient.
 
I deprime, resize, trim and all that with the lube on and then tumble to get the lube off, then clean the primer pockets with my Dremel and the nylon brush. This knocks out any corn media in the flash hole too.
Alternately I have stood the cases upside down (on their mouths) when spraying on the lube, in a block that protects the shoulders too. This prevents the lube from getting on the shoulders and screwing up the headspace when the shoulders get set back. Then I deprime/size, trim and then prime, powder and seat bullet. Then into the tumbler for half an hour to get the lube off.
 
you can purchase an inexpensive lyman universal depriming die....works from .22 to .45 cal.....

I use this tool for depriming all my brass........it requires no lube as brass cases dont' come in contact with any of the "die " walls.......all my primer punch pins have been removed from all my rifle/pistol dies.......

Take your fired, but cleaned and still primed cases out of your tumbler....... use your lube of choice to resize same......toss into tumbler to de-lube your cases.........remove and run them through the Lyman universal de-priming die and then re prime your cases ...........lube is gone and no media in the flash hole to extract............caveat being, your sizer had no primer punch pin while you resized......

I reload on single stage press's and if yours is a progressive, plse disregard as I'm not familiar with their usage.....

hs4570...........your mileage may vary
 
I use very little lube when I do batches of .223 (usually about 2K at a time), just enough to make the cases slightly greasy. Then I load away with the lube on the cases. I remove the lube at the end of my loading session by dumping all the loaded rounds on a beach towel and rubbing off the lube, it seems to work for me.

Sounds like you are trying to get the lube off before dumping the powder though, so this will not work for you. Is there a reason to get the lube off before dumping powder other than making bullet seating and powder dumping easier and cleaner? I've never had any problems leaving the little bit of lube of the cases, maybe I should change my rountine?
 
GushulaK:

That procedure you describe is what I just performed for the last 400 rds I just loaded up. I just tried the beach towel method, and most of the lube was wiped off, but I ended up taking a rag with some Acetone to wipe off the remaining lube and dust. Clean cases, but a little grimy still.

I'm going back to what I used to do before.... tumble all the lube off the newly sized and deprimed cases and then run them ALL through a decapping (Lee Decapping die) once again to ensure the primer pockets are cleared of any trapped (sieve size) tumbling media kernels.

Cheers all,

Barney
 
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