Post brass cleaning?

I was wondering what guy's are doing to their brass after cleaning it? Specifically if you wet tumble or ultrasonic clean, how do you keep it from getting water spots and corroding?

Rinse thoroughly, I usually fill a bowl with water and turn the cases upside down it it to get all the pins out then towel dry before putting it into a dehydrator.

I used to use a 5gal pail and a hair dryer... Back when I cleaned my brass, that is

I gave up on water, pins and washing solutions, even my ultrasonic cleaner is only used to clean chainsaw and engine carbs.
I just tumble my brass in corn Cobb.

Cheers.

I wipe them down and let them dry upside down on skinny dowels that I put in a 1x12 plank. Works great and don't see any more water spots.

MagnumManiac said:

I gave up on water, pins and washing solutions, even my ultrasonic cleaner is only used to clean chainsaw and engine carbs.
I just tumble my brass in corn Cobb.

Cheers.

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Feeling like this is the direction I'm headed. I don't clean the brass for my precision rifles except to wipe the case down and spin the neck and shoulder in some steel wool. When it's plinking brass, range brass or time to anneal I do the stainless pin tumbling.

First step for me is full length sizing and trimming to length. I then wet tumble range brass with Dawn Ultra and Lemi-Shine which makes it look new and cleans out the primer pockets. From the wet tumbler I rinse the brass then dump it directly into my dry tumbler with fine corn cob media which has been treated with Nu-Finish car wax. 15-30 minutes in the corn cob and the brass is completely dry and protected from tarnishing and water spots. After this, I will do any further brass prep that is needed before loading. Existing brass that I have previously wet cleaned and prepped just gets sized and checked with a light dry tumble to remove any sizing lube. Doing this preserves the carbon inside the case neck which aids in consistent bullet seating.

De-prime then I wet tumble with stainless steel shavings, Lemishine & hot water for only 15 minutes. This short duration cleaning preserves the carbon inside the neck. I then rinse with hot fresh water & check for any shavings in the brass & a clear primer hole. Then they go on the dehydrator for several hours set to 140 degrees F. After that resize & bump the shoulders if needed, check case length etc.

Ultrasonic for a few cycles then into the tumbler with corncob media. Comes out nice, dry, and shiny.

Beluebow said:

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gotta justify the price of that thing any way you can

Berrnard said:

gotta justify the price of that thing any way you can

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Heck I thought that was a heater/air conditioning unit for the home. Just using it to dry his cases from the fan running. I was curious as to what the yellow thing is holding the cases though ?

M1A1ABRAMS said:

Heck I thought that was a heater/air conditioning unit for the home. Just using it to dry his cases from the fan running. I was curious as to what the yellow thing is holding the cases though ?

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