Brass cleaning process.. which is best

[Charlie-NY]

Use a little Sprayway glass cleaner available on Amazon. It will remove lube from your brass better and faster than just using a dry paper towel or rag. I got this tip on AccurateShooter and it works great.

 

[ljalberta]

I wipe them with a paper towel. I used to wet tumble.

 

[goathunter]

I just wipe it off with a rag.

I've done that a bunch too. Tossing into a dry tumbler for an hour is way easier.

 

[goathunter]

Use a little Sprayway glass cleaner available on Amazon. It will remove lube from your brass better and faster than just using a dry paper towel or rag. I got this tip on AccurateShooter and it works great.

Do you have to wipe off the spray away?

 

[AZ_Hunter]

I have done every method. Wet tumbling is by far the best; it’s easier, cleaner and more effective. I use SS pins; with a rotary separator, very rarely will a pin get stuck in the brass. Rarely. I will catch it when doing the post washing case prep.

But shooting suppressed all the time, thus creating filthy brass, wet tumbling is the easy button.

I will put a batch of brass in, then go do something else… like work. Then later I’ll put the brass in the dehydrator. I break up the process throughout the week, so by weekend the cases are ready to be primed and loaded. One step each day, makes for an easy Saturday night of loading up for shooting Sunday.

 

[goathunter]

I have done every method. Wet tumbling is by far the best; it’s easier, cleaner and more effective. I use SS pins; with a rotary separator, very rarely will a pin get stuck in the brass. Rarely. I will catch it when doing the post washing case prep.

But shooting suppressed all the time, thus creating filthy brass, wet tumbling is the easy button.

I will put a batch of brass in, then go do something else… like work. Then later I’ll put the brass in the dehydrator. I break up the process throughout the week, so by weekend the cases are ready to be primed and loaded. One step each day, makes for an easy Saturday night of loading up for shooting Sunday.

I don't know, this sounds much harder than dry tumbling: resize, toss in for a couple hours, take out, quick wipe off "dust" with rag, load. I do use a primer pocket tool as part of prep along with trimming. Primer pockets are still dirty.

 

[SamsonMan22]

I've done that a bunch too. Tossing into a dry tumbler for an hour is way easier.

I hate cleaning media out of flash holes, especially small ones. For me it’s faster to wipe off lube with a rag than to go through and clean out flash holes. I used to tumble everything but I gave up on cleaning brass a couple of years ago and that ended up being a big time saver for me.

 

[goathunter]

I hate cleaning media out of flash holes, especially small ones. For me it’s faster to wipe off lube with a rag than to go through and clean out flash holes. I used to tumble everything but I gave up on cleaning brass a couple of years ago and that ended up being a big time saver for me.

hmm I don't really get media in the flash holes. Maybe it's the media? I use "lizard bedding" (walnut). But I need to clean my primer pockets anyways with a primer brush to clean the residue from firing

not saying my way is the best - I'd love to improve my process

 

[SamsonMan22]

hmm I don't really get media in the flash holes. Maybe it's the media? I use "lizard bedding" (walnut). But I need to clean my primer pockets anyways with a primer brush to clean the residue from firing

not saying my way is the best - I'd love to improve my process

I used corn cob so they could be why, also majority of my loading now is small primer pockets and relatively small flash holes. When I was loading for larger cartridges 1-2 out of a hundred would have media in them, with something like a 223 it seems like 1 in 3 has media in the flash holes.

I’m sure my process is not “the” answer, I’m just lazy and load a lot more ammo now than I ever did. I hate wasting time cleaning brass, primer pockets, etc because I have seen zero appreciable difference going from strict cleaning processes to zero cleaning. When I’m loading progressive all of that cleaning is kind of tough to do in the middle of the cycle anyway. I went from loading several hundred rounds a year to several thousand and in doing so I really wanted to streamline the process and save time where I could, that and I’m limited on space to store all of this stuff.

 

[Mikido]

I've done that a bunch too. Tossing into a dry tumbler for an hour is way easier.

I disagree

 

[goathunter]

I disagree

Roger that, wasn't trying to change your mind!

 

[Mike D Texas]

If your goal is clean, shiny,brass nothing will beat wet tumbling with SS pins.

It is more time consuming but it will get your brass clean; including inside and primer pockets.


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