Wet tumbling with steel pins?

ok I got a tumbler and steel pins for cleaning my brass. Am I expecting to much my primer pockets still come out with some carbon on them. Mostly a ring around the edge and a little here and there in the middle. I thought it would get all the primer pocket. I used dawn dish soap and lemishine about 1tsp of lemishine and a few drops of soap. The soap is pretty sudded up when you open it. Run it for 2.5 hours. Also what works the best for getting the pins out of the cases this is almost more work then the vibrating tumbler and cleaning primer pockets. Any advice would be great.

I put a couple drops of dawn dish soap in mine. Run it for about 30 min, dump dirty water and refill with clean water and a couple drops of soap again then run it for a few hours. I use the Frankford Arsenal magnet to separate all the pins from the brass...

How do your primer pockets look after that? Also how do you get the pins out of the inside of the cases? These were all 22cal cases I have done so far so maybe it's just the 22cal cases that hold the pins inside so bad.

I use your recipe for cleaning, but do a 1 hour pre-soak with hot, hot water. After tumbling about 90% of the residue from the primer pockets is gone. To separate the pins, I use the RCBS case tumbler.

So Johnny you use who's recipe mine or 19Badger? Also your 1 hour pre soak in hot hot water donyou just get the hot water as hot as you can out of the faucet or do you boil it? Also your presoak is it in the tumbler tumbling for that hour, then you dump the hot water and fill with fresh cold water?

zr600 said:

So Johnny you use who's recipe mine or 19Badger? Also your 1 hour pre soak in hot hot water donyou just get the hot water as hot as you can out of the faucet or do you boil it? Also your presoak is it in the tumbler tumbling for that hour, then you dump the hot water and fill with fresh cold water?

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I use your recipe with the Dawn and the Lemishine. As for the hot water, I use it straight from the tap and get it as hot as possible and just soak them in a bucket (helps to soften the residue in the primer pockets). The case seperator I use is the RCBS, but any brand of the same style will work just as well.

600, small squirt of Dawn, 1/4 tsp Lemishine in hot water. I never need to tumble longer than 2 hr. Rinse with hot water, tumble in RCBS separator and use compressed air to remove water. Too much Lemishine leaves a rainbow finish and I've found air drying sometimes has the same effect. All this is perhaps a bit more work, but your brass is like new inside and out every reload.

depending on where you are is the measure for lemishine. I get my water from a drilled well (almost pristine water), there is just a dash of maganise in the water so, I only use 1/4 of a teaspoon of lemishine with 1/2 teaspoon of dawn. Any more lemishine and my brass develops a pink sheen, if you notice that pink sheen back off a little lemishine.
I run it a full 3 hours then I have a "Frankfort arsenal media separator", witch can be got from Amazon. I dump the tumbler into the bottom then pour out the water and rinse ,,, now I put the basket in the notch in the top and pour the works into the basket, let it drain. The basket goes over to the bottom I then using a magnet to trasfere the pins to the tumbler. Back to the basket, it goes over to the bottom,, fill the bottom with water, cover and rotate back and forth for a minite or 2 this will let the water inside the brass knocking out the pins and they sink . Put the basket over to the top again and transfere the pins from the water in the bottom back to the tumbler. To dry, in the summer I spread the brass out on the picnic table and let the sun do it,, in the heating season after towelling I stand them up in groups of 4 on the wood stove ( 10 groups on then remove them in the order of first on first off )