Wet Tumbling brass always dirty

I had this kind of problem for the first year of using my Frankfort Arsenal.
If I had to guess its minerals in your water.
We have very hard water here in Regina... lots of minerals and I don't have a water softener.
Which would leave a black haze (as well as black spots if I didn't pat away excess water) on my brass.

I solved the problem instantly by buying a $100 (or so) four liter water distiller from Amazon.
Use 4 liters of distilled water, about an 1/8 cup of Lemon Dawn.... and about 1 tablespoon of Lemishine.
2 hours for 100 308 Brass... rinse in clean distilled water, shake then pat off excess water with an old towel....... like hand polished gold every time.
 
redryder said:
Once you poke all the walnut out of the flash holes.
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I only dry-tumble before depriming so the pin is going to send any walnut bits into the bad primer bin. And I visually inspect inside my pistol brass after tumbling and before reloading just to make sure there's nothing in there that shouldn't be, and no double primer holes from weird cases, and haven't seen walnut accumulation anyway.

Leaning toward saving wet tumbling for after sizing/depriming rifle brass.
 
Also in Regina, but lucky enough to have a water softener.
Frankford Arsenal tumbler, load of brass, small squirt of laundry detergent (TIDE), pinch of lemmishine, small amount of steel pins, less than 100 gram, 3/4 hot water, one hour
and the brass is clean like brand new.
I really like the two grills that can be installed instead of the solid caps, makes flushing real easy after tumbling, I use a mesh bag from the wine making store to catch the pins.
All the rinsing done over the laundry tub.
 
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