Tips for speeding up cleaning off the lubricant from resized brass?

I line up 10-15 at a time on a rag, spray one pass of Gun Scrubber over them and roll them back and forth a few times. Much faster than wiping individual cases.
 
Longwalker said:
Until the increased bolt thrust sets your locking lugs back into the receiver and you've ruined your action, it might not seem like removing case lube is worth the trouble.
My brother ruined a strong Savage 110 action by doing as you suggest. Removing all the the lube doesn't seem like so much work now!:D
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I would see the lube maybe havign some kind of averse effect if the loaded rounds are still coated and sticky, but by the time i get around to actually loadign them into a gun, they're 99% lube free. Most of it ends up on my fingers, then subsequently on th front of my pants :S
 
I use Imperial sizing wax and have for years, works better than some brands on some of my magnum cases and again seems to last forever. Throw the sized brass in your tumbler with a dryer sheet so that your brass isn't dusty or have any residule static in it. 15 min. and they're clean. I do have to watch for media in the primer pockets, but it's a time honoured system that works well for me.
 
Usually I throw them back in the vibrator, but if I'm in a hurry to get back to the range I'll spray electical contact cleaner on blue shop towels and wipe 'em down quick.
My fine walnut media never seems to plug flashholes.
 
I run them in the tumbler for about an hour. I also check the flash holes for media. I will not leave the lube on and have it pick up dust or grit and transfer it to my rifle's chamber.
 
Thinned Hornady-Unique lube

I use thinned out Hornady Unique lube, comes in a small tub.

About a teaspoon completely disolved in 1/4cup of 99% isopropyl alcohol, then transfered into a pump sprayer. Throw all brass into ziploc bag, a few squirts of the lube into the bag, zip it up and mix it up good, this takes less than 30sec to lube several hundred 223 brass. Then... very important step here... dump into a small tray and let the alcohol evaporate, this leaves the lube behind, say 15min (otherwise the lube will not be viscous enough and you will have a shell stick in the sizing die). Then size away.

Put the shells back into tumbler for 15 min to clean them off and you are done; ready to trim, prime, etc.
 
Usually, I size the brass, wash it in hot soap and water in a gallon ice cream bucket, rinse it in more hot water, and lay it out to dry for a couple of days in the furnace room downstairs. You could use any dry room in your home.

If I need it loaded the same day, I put it in an oven, pre-warmed to 250 degrees, leave it in for an hour or so, then take it out and let it cool completely.

If I need it loaded right now, I wipe the lube off with a rag or paper towel. :)

Been loading for more than forty years, and doing the first two methods above almost as long, and am sure I haven't had a dozen misfires in all that time.

Actually, a neat experiment is to load five rounds without washing, and five with each of the above drying methods. Then shoot three five-shot groups for accuracy. There is virtually no accuracy difference in the three methods.

If you have a chronograph, you can also record the velocities if you shoot the groups over the chronograph screens. Results are the same, no difference in average velocity.

Ted
 
Fold an old bath towel in half and then put the brass in the middle and roll it. it wipes the lube off in no time and you can do a lot of cases at once.

Remember, the key is old towel or the wife may not be happy LOL
 
I use a hornady type spray, and it drys in about 10 minutes open air, or about 15 seconds with a hair dryer. I just run it on the cold mode for a few seconds, and they're always dry. It's neat, a little noisy, and doesn't involve heat, which, no matter how much I know it doesn't flash until a much higher degree, doesn't keep me from being more than a little paranoid about it. I could just imagine what my mother would say if I blew up my room...
 
I've only ever used Lee's sizing wax. Mix it with rubbing alcohol in a spray-bottle and cover the brass in a fine mist. Dries in minutes, then it's ready to size and load.

Using oil-based lube seems like such a hassle...
 
I use Imperial (mostly beeswax)...Wiping it off with a blue shop rag (paper towel) takes 3-5 seconds per piece.

Or throw it in the tumbler if you're doing a large run of 223 or whatever.

Good pointer Why not?!
I will try that on my next large run.
 
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