Washing/Polishing Brass with Stainless steel Pins ( Lots of Pics)

My home built tumbler in action... ' With about 700 .223 cases inside.

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Some 9mm brass after a two hour tumble... Or maybe .40 :confused:
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I have some prototype polish additive from the pin manufacture, but 'seems a $4 can of Lemishine fron Cdn. Tire works as well and one can should last a very long time.. You only need to add a shell case full per load.
 
Andy said:
"dirt cheap" - good one. ;)

Upon reflection, I image that the sand will be too dense in a vibratory cleaner, and the brass will simply work its way up and sit on top of it. In a tumbler you might have a chance.
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Dunno Andy.. dry sand seems like the cheap and easy way out, for clean brass in a tumbler... I have to try it.:)
 
lacesout said:
is it a good idea to leave your stainless tumbler un-attended??
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I have a professional grade 40 pound stainless steel tumbler on a count down timer and I leave it unattended the vast majority of the time. Due to it's design and construction I feel confident leaving it unattended. I have a dog so I just make sure that I shut the door to the basement so she doesn't stick her nose in it while it is cleaning brass.

BTW, there is a floor drain just a couple of feet away should there be a problem. ;)
 
i'm sold!! This is the first batch of 270win, 8x57 and 223, probably about 300 cases in total. 5 lbs of SS pins, bit of dish soap and lemishine, exactly one hour on my home made tumbler using a 5Gal bucket with a gamma lid.

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here is the tumbled stuff next to my previous method results. water, vinegar and soap wash. The results are 100x better. it looks better than new brass!

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It is obvious that there are a lot of OCD people reloading their own ammo. lol ;)

I have discovered over the past 48 years or so that the brass doesn't really care if it is shiny and spotlessly clean.

Also, Because I make sure my brass is clean enough to resize, my dies have never developed a scratch in them.
My 30-06 dies are marked 1966, and still work perfectly. They have most certainly resized at least 20,000 rounds.

It looks nice, but beyond that, shiny brass serves no real purpose except to wow those who look at it, and to make the owner proud of his/her handiwork.

I tumble mine in corncob every 5-6 firings to keep it relatively decent looking, but have no fetish about the inside of any case.

However, if that's what makes one happy - I say more power to them!

Regards, Eagleye.
 
funny enough i'm far from OCD, i'm downright messy and disorganized. My fiance keeps telling her self that geniuses like Einstein were messy and thats why i'm messy too...lol

....but there is something nice about freshly tumbled brass that i dont have to clean the primer pockets, and making the tumbler was a project. Projects i LOVE....i have to be designing/building/creating something otherwise i go stir crazy....thats why i have hobbies up the wazooo....
 
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