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Brass Cleaning steel pins overated?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 1256313" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>First +1 on the wet wipes or if you don't want a wet wipe just grab a used dryer sheet and cut into a few strips. This works very well and removes a lot of the dust...</p><p>The wet tumbling is nice and it get the brass very clean but for me I noticed my necks seemed like the tension changed and my loads changed and got some what erratic. It's like the brass has become to clean and grabby on the bullet. I know I should of probably got some graphite to take care of this and it probably would of settled down but I done a test with wet and dry cleaning. The dry cleaning produced better over all down range results. So about every 4th to 5th reload I do a long clean process. I punch primers, clean in wet, dry, resize, clean in dry tumbling media, trim, dry clean again and load. Seem to be working and I can have shiny new looking brass inside and out. Its really more to allow me to look inside the case and inspect the inside better. I generally punch primers, clean, resize, clean, trim, deburr, clean for maybe 20 to 30 minutes and load. I know this seem long but its a process that seem to produce the best results. I cant say that the last clean does anything but gets out any small copper shavings that may had went into the case during trimming. I done it without and it has not really changed anything. I would say the most important thing to produce good down range results is being consistence in every thing you do but if I was wet cleaning only I would get some graphite for the necks hands down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 1256313, member: 10429"] First +1 on the wet wipes or if you don't want a wet wipe just grab a used dryer sheet and cut into a few strips. This works very well and removes a lot of the dust... The wet tumbling is nice and it get the brass very clean but for me I noticed my necks seemed like the tension changed and my loads changed and got some what erratic. It's like the brass has become to clean and grabby on the bullet. I know I should of probably got some graphite to take care of this and it probably would of settled down but I done a test with wet and dry cleaning. The dry cleaning produced better over all down range results. So about every 4th to 5th reload I do a long clean process. I punch primers, clean in wet, dry, resize, clean in dry tumbling media, trim, dry clean again and load. Seem to be working and I can have shiny new looking brass inside and out. Its really more to allow me to look inside the case and inspect the inside better. I generally punch primers, clean, resize, clean, trim, deburr, clean for maybe 20 to 30 minutes and load. I know this seem long but its a process that seem to produce the best results. I cant say that the last clean does anything but gets out any small copper shavings that may had went into the case during trimming. I done it without and it has not really changed anything. I would say the most important thing to produce good down range results is being consistence in every thing you do but if I was wet cleaning only I would get some graphite for the necks hands down. [/QUOTE]
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