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Q: Cleaning and prepping brass
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave King" data-source="post: 20739" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Dave</p><p></p><p> That little heating you did to less than 200 degrees didn't do anything to that brass IMHO. A similar discussion came up recently on Sniper Country and the temperatures finally decided upon as potentially harmful by an egg-head metalurgist manual reading type was much higher than 200(f).</p><p></p><p> But using a liguid chemical type brass cleaner on your brass???? I'd leave it dirty/tarnished before letting the butler clean it. <img src="http://images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> I've never used a liguid cleaner, I'm strickly a corncob media with the magic green stuff covering user. I've used the walnut hull and red stuff but it leaves residue inside the cases that I don't care for and I don't like shooting this same walnut & red stuff out of my barrel.</p><p></p><p> I don't tumble cases too much anymore, I'd rather clean up the necks with some fine steel wool if they're badly sooted up. I do this before I de-prime and clean the primer pocket then length and chamfer.</p><p></p><p> I view reloading as my mental health quiet time. I do things slow and methodical, never is a rush or hurried. Most important of all.... double check everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave King, post: 20739, member: 3"] Dave That little heating you did to less than 200 degrees didn't do anything to that brass IMHO. A similar discussion came up recently on Sniper Country and the temperatures finally decided upon as potentially harmful by an egg-head metalurgist manual reading type was much higher than 200(f). But using a liguid chemical type brass cleaner on your brass???? I'd leave it dirty/tarnished before letting the butler clean it. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I've never used a liguid cleaner, I'm strickly a corncob media with the magic green stuff covering user. I've used the walnut hull and red stuff but it leaves residue inside the cases that I don't care for and I don't like shooting this same walnut & red stuff out of my barrel. I don't tumble cases too much anymore, I'd rather clean up the necks with some fine steel wool if they're badly sooted up. I do this before I de-prime and clean the primer pocket then length and chamfer. I view reloading as my mental health quiet time. I do things slow and methodical, never is a rush or hurried. Most important of all.... double check everything. [/QUOTE]
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