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<blockquote data-quote="Beelzebub" data-source="post: 3085270" data-attributes="member: 29392"><p>I probably handle each piece of brass way too many times before putting a completed reload in a plastic box, but here's how I do mine;</p><p>Tumble with SS pins and a good lemon or orange scented soap for three hours in the hottest water I can get out of the tap. Rinse very well and then scatter the brass out on one or two large cookie trays and put them in the over on about 180 degrees for a couple of hours to thoroughly dry. Once cooled off I sort by manufacturer if need be and do a quick once over for cracks, dents or other serious defects. Then I use a new 6MM bronze brush in a battery drill dipped in CLP or other bore cleaner and make several passes through the neck to clean anything the SS pins didn't get. I have found in my own processing of brass that chatter or a sticky necks stretch the case on the up stroke of the ram arm. It's worth the effort to me to know I'm not going to wind up with a hard to close bolt by this extra step. Once satisfactorily sized and trim, chamfer and debur cases. Depending on how busy I am I might even then throw the brass in a vibrator with treated crushed corn cob to do another cleaning before priming and loading. Before priming I always make it a habit of checking the primer pockets for stuck pieces of SS pins or corn cob in the flash hole. Then I prime them and stack them in reloading trays. When I have a completed round loaded, I drop them back into a vibrator with clean and untreaded corn cob for 30 minutes to an hour to remove finger prints and oil from my hands off. When all the corn cob media is sifted away I put on a pair of thin cotton gloves and move the round from the strainer to a bullet box and never touch them again with unprotected hands until I load them into a gun or magazine. Doing it this way I only have to handle each piece of brass 147 times to get a loaded and boxed round ! :-( But **** they're purdy and shoot good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beelzebub, post: 3085270, member: 29392"] I probably handle each piece of brass way too many times before putting a completed reload in a plastic box, but here's how I do mine; Tumble with SS pins and a good lemon or orange scented soap for three hours in the hottest water I can get out of the tap. Rinse very well and then scatter the brass out on one or two large cookie trays and put them in the over on about 180 degrees for a couple of hours to thoroughly dry. Once cooled off I sort by manufacturer if need be and do a quick once over for cracks, dents or other serious defects. Then I use a new 6MM bronze brush in a battery drill dipped in CLP or other bore cleaner and make several passes through the neck to clean anything the SS pins didn't get. I have found in my own processing of brass that chatter or a sticky necks stretch the case on the up stroke of the ram arm. It's worth the effort to me to know I'm not going to wind up with a hard to close bolt by this extra step. Once satisfactorily sized and trim, chamfer and debur cases. Depending on how busy I am I might even then throw the brass in a vibrator with treated crushed corn cob to do another cleaning before priming and loading. Before priming I always make it a habit of checking the primer pockets for stuck pieces of SS pins or corn cob in the flash hole. Then I prime them and stack them in reloading trays. When I have a completed round loaded, I drop them back into a vibrator with clean and untreaded corn cob for 30 minutes to an hour to remove finger prints and oil from my hands off. When all the corn cob media is sifted away I put on a pair of thin cotton gloves and move the round from the strainer to a bullet box and never touch them again with unprotected hands until I load them into a gun or magazine. Doing it this way I only have to handle each piece of brass 147 times to get a loaded and boxed round ! :-( But **** they're purdy and shoot good. [/QUOTE]
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