Stainless pins arrived, now I need a little help

[Abman]

http://www.stainlesstumblingmedia.com/tips

 

[Shibby!]

Wow! What a great build, congrats!

I also use a 9mm casefull of Lemishine in a 1Gal container, works great.

Update on my cleaning.

I did another load last night and used about 1/2 to 3/4 of a 9mm cartridge of Lemishine and it appears they are staying bright! My drum is only about 2.5 liters. I tumbled probably 50 .308 and 150-200 9mm. It's amazing how much you can put in there and still come out spotless! I think it does peen less with more brass which makes sense.

 

[Kernel Panic]

I use dish detergent and straight lemon juice. We have soft water so you probably don't need the Lemishine.

 

[ruger22]

I pretty much follow the instructions bigedp51 outlined. However, I have recently begun to rinse my brass in isopropyl alcohol to displace any water just prior to drying, no more water spots and the alcohol can be re-used numerous times. QUOTE]

good idea

I have set brass in the sun on a black tray.
Or in the oven for 1 hour at 200 F.

Need to be real sure no water drops remain.

 

[ruger22]

1/4 teaspoon per batch is what I use for lemishine. And have always used cold water. The one time I used hot when I first got the tumbler, I ended up with a few hundred very dark 40 cal brass. I used too much lemishine, hot water and 4 hours. Won't do that again.

I use black powder for my shiloh sharps brass, in 45 70.

Cleaned with dishwasher soap and hot water.
Brass comes out clean, but stained the colour of milk chocolate. Which did not bother me at all.
I thought the colour was due to the black powder.

Next time I will try cold water.

 

[stubblejumper]

After tumbling the first time with stainless media, I sold my old vibrating cleaner, and walnut media. The stainless media, is too quick, and gets them too clean, to use any other method.

 

[Mudduck]

IS there any reason why you could not use a rotary rock tumbler like either of these for doing your brass

http://www.canadiantreasureseekers.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=326
http://www.canadiantreasureseekers.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=303

Looks like they may be cheaper then building your own if you are not doing large quantities of brass at a time. I assume they would quite easily hold 50 pieces minimum?

 

[sendmorebrains]

Thanks!

I'll try reducing the quantity again. Like my cooking, I just go by feel and I've been putting a lot in. I also thought it was tablespoon and not teaspoon so I will decrease my QTY much less. We have very good water here so shouldn't have an issue with minerals, etc.

I have also been using hot water which probably isn't helping. Tumbling anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours and 1.6 MPH to 2.2MPH. (It's on a treadmill, haha)

Next I'll try 1.6 at 2.5-3 hours, cold water, and very little lemishine. I've went from whatever soap I had to Dawn which the instructions mention. Not sure why specific brands are mentioned over others...

Hey ! I use hot water too.

I actually boil my water from the kettle and it seems to help.

I use Palmolive soap(the green one) cause not only is it tough on brass stains but it also keeps my hands soft. Ok skip that last part. I read that on the bottle.

This is my latest batch of 40s&w cal - It was done in 2.5 hrs with the soap and lemishine combo. Ive been skipping the depriming be4 the tumbling cuz I figured I can deprime and reprime at the same time since Im using at the moment a single stage Lee press.

I do my reloading in stages btw..