How do you clean your brass

surfclod said:
I am debating the ultrasonic vs wet tumbler at the moment.

Am looking to do it on a budget so try a build it myself, so that means SS wet tumbling.


Do see several ideas on home made tumblers on YouTube, looks pretty straight forward.

Any tips on cheap SS pins??

Besides a hacksaw and lots of heavy gauge SS wire :p
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A CGN member Rooky sells them at a reasonable price
 
TargetAcquired said:
Oh, 100%. But it is a long step when your opportunities to reload sometimes come quickly and without much warning. Really, it would just make sense to deprime and vibrate coming back from a shoot, and then just store clean brass. In reality I com home, and hardly give myself enough time to do a basic gun clean before I put it all away as is tilll next time.
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I clean my brass in advance and store it cleaned and deprimed until I'm ready to use it, I can tumble about 1500 pistol cases at a time. I only reload in the fall and winter when I'm housebound more often.
 
surfclod said:
I am debating the ultrasonic vs wet tumbler at the moment.

Am looking to do it on a budget so try a build it myself, so that means SS wet tumbling.


Do see several ideas on home made tumblers on YouTube, looks pretty straight forward.

Any tips on cheap SS pins??

Besides a hacksaw and lots of heavy gauge SS wire :p
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I know you want to go cheap. We looked at making them and it just wasn't going to work out. Bought these ones though they were $10.00 or so cheaper but remember they never wear out and if you are careful and not loose them its a one time cost. Also bought that magnet as well. Couldn't imagine not having it now.

http://www.cabelas.ca/search?q=Frankford+pins
 
Reeferman said:
Well as much as I would like to take the credit my son made it. It's built like the proverbial ####house.
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He did a great job, I was building a very similar looking machine, but then decided to make a backstop that I clamp to the treadmill machine. It took no time to make and works great.
 
Kosmic said:
With the advice given to buy a ss media wet tumbler, a warning for case mouth peening should also be add. I'm still on the fence between ultrasonic and ss wet tumbler but a few members said they tuned their loads
(ss pins, cases, water quantity and tumbling time) to diminish mouth peening.


http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1201471-Wet-tumbling/page5?highlight=peening

Start at post #109
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Depending on the quantity of brass you want to clean, you may need a larger ultrasonic cleaner. Most of the units are quite small, and the larger ones get expensive.
 
Reeferman said:
It takes me less than 5 minutes to separate the pins from a load of cases and rinse them.
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True, but you need another piece of gear for separating the pins. And since I've got a method that gets my brass "clean enough" I'm happy with what I've got.


I may turn into a part time SS pin guy though. I shoot black powder loads for rifle and shotgun for my Frontiersman category cowboy action shooting. And the BP leaves the brass looking horrible. And worse, it's "sticky" during resizing even after US cleaning. And this will only get worse with the new need to reload my own BP shot shells using Magtech 12Ga brass shells. So I'm seriously looking at a modest SS pin setup just for that if nothing else.

For my regular handgun ammo? I'll stick with US cleaning for now unless the cleaner goes toes up at some point. Then we'd see. I don't need "like new" shiny but I like the brass clean enough that it's not going to stick in the reloading dies or when slipping into the chambers of the guns.
 
BCRider said:
True, but you need another piece of gear for separating the pins. And since I've got a method that gets my brass "clean enough" I'm happy with what I've got.


I may turn into a part time SS pin guy though. I shoot black powder loads for rifle and shotgun for my Frontiersman category cowboy action shooting. And the BP leaves the brass looking horrible. And worse, it's "sticky" during resizing even after US cleaning. And this will only get worse with the new need to reload my own BP shot shells using Magtech 12Ga brass shells. So I'm seriously looking at a modest SS pin setup just for that if nothing else.

For my regular handgun ammo? I'll stick with US cleaning for now unless the cleaner goes toes up at some point. Then we'd see. I don't need "like new" shiny but I like the brass clean enough that it's not going to stick in the reloading dies or when slipping into the chambers of the guns.
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Once you start with SS cleaning it's hard to go back..
 
Magellann said:
Depending on the quantity of brass you want to clean, you may need a larger ultrasonic cleaner. Most of the units are quite small, and the larger ones get expensive.
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The one that I'm washing the 300ish pieces from this morning right now holds 6.5L and cost $269 from amazon.ca. Also, regular Tide laundry detergent is working out as good or better than the CLR kitchen and bathroom cleaner i was using until I ran out.
 
dirtybarry said:
The one that I'm washing the 300ish pieces from this morning right now holds 6.5L and cost $269 from amazon.ca. Also, regular Tide laundry detergent is working out as good or better than the CLR kitchen and bathroom cleaner i was using until I ran out.
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Try the Low E Tide it ceans well and produces less suds
 
^^^ Thats not a bad price for a cleaner that size, Ive seen them for $500.00 to $700.00 in that size range before. In fact thats what my brother paid for his a couple years ago.
 
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