Do you use brass polish to tumble brass before reloading?

"...Brass polish or not?..." Isn't required. Brass needs to be clean, not shiney. Brasso does contain ammonia(that's what you smell), but you're not using enough to hurt the brass. It's just not necessary.
 
I have a stainless pin tumbler that I made for over 350$ with a 1/2 hp motor, ball bearing industrial rollers and a drum that can hold almost 2000 223 cases, it works, but it's a hassle, it's heavy, and then you have to dry brass, etc etc.
I like it to clean super dirty brass, but just to polish clean brass, it's a hassle to wash, rinse and dry all that brass.

I think both cleaners have their pros and cons, and the best is probably having both.
I want a vib. tumbler just to polish clean brass, and I think a vib tumbler is better than ss pins for that.
 
will try, expecting the frankford arsenal tumbler this week.
I do all major cleaning with ss pins and want the vib tumbler to polish.
 
report, got the vib tumbler.
I leave it running a long time, like 5+ hours, with corncob and polish, and I have to say that the brass is really shiny and spotless.
SS pins do a better job at cleaning dirty brass, but corncob does a good job at polishing without dealing with water. I like both I guess.

I use air blow gun to get rid of media stuck in the flashholes... quite a pain, doesnt happen as much with SS pins.
It does happen though, sometimes 2 pins will jam inside a flash hole. but like 1 case in 100, compared to 30% cases with media after corncob...
 
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