Do you clean brass that’s just been on the bench?

[skipper907]

I clean in corn cob to remove lube just before loading, after it has been annealed sized and trimmed

 

[crowlja]

Run a brush through the necks and your solid.
I use a nylon brush in a drill to make life easier.

Cleaning brass only makes them look nice, not really a needed process. I personally clean brass when I know I'm going to need to trim them all.
So I'll de-prime, resize, trim, debur & camphor, then clean to get all the brass shaving.

 

[Luked]

I tumble mine after sizing as well
Just part of my process. I would say it has to be done.
But I also like shiny stuff

 

[8mille]

Need to? No. I choose to because it adds no time to my process and I like clean brass in my sizing die and I like the look of bright shiny brass.

I run them through a tumbler to prevent getting crap in my dies too. But it’s not necessary. In my early days of reloading I didn’t always. I don’t need shiny cartridges all the time but I do like the look of them better. The last batches I tested at the range appealed to me seeing the shining brass and bright Barnes bullets. They looked as good or better than factory brass in advertisements.

 

[49ereric]

I never have cleaned brass until yesterday. Swedged 223 cases and used imperial wax on the rcbs swedge tool. I wiped each case as it came off the press but figured I needed to remove any wax that might still be in the primer pocket. Boiled some water and lots of dish soap and hope it works. I don’t own a tumbler.

 

[N2TRKYS]

I stopped washing brass a long time ago. I highly doubt I’ll ever wash brass again.

 

[Flack]

I quit cleaning brass, just wipe them off and make sure there’s no dirt or anything that would damage my die on them

 

[doc holiday13]

I tumble before sizing to clean any incidental dirt off cases so i don't accidentally scour up the sizing die and then tumble after sizing to clean the lube off

 

[SippyCup]

I’ll full length size then toss them in the corn cob tumbler. I like the looks of clean and polished brass so I’ll let them tumble over night with a little bit of nufinish or nushine… what ever the orange bottle car wax stuff is called. After the tumbling I’ll decap and run an expander mandrel through the neck

 

[RWE]

If really sooty from suppressed firing, I wet tumble before anything. Dry corm polish to remove sizing lube.

 

[wind gypsy]

Fired and not filthy goes straight to sizing without cleaning. Tumble lube off after sizing.

 

[ID_Matt]

I almost always tumble before sizing just to make sure I am not packing a bunch of dirt in to my die then tumble again after sizing. Most of my brass is loaded in batches of 100+ after a match so the thought of having to wipe down each case before sizing sounds like a lot more manual work than just dumping my brass bag in the tumbler before I walk in the house from shooting. On some occasions where i am doing load work or just shooting from a bench where the brass never touches the ground, I won't tumble before sizing.