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Pros and Cons of stainless media cleaning
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 1290822" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>I use a frankford arsenal tumbler, and there are functional benifits. </p><p></p><p>If you load range brass, or dirty military brass, or brass that has stains, it will clean it better than a corn cob tumbler will, and much faster. If you don't clean this brass, you will scratch your die, which will leave scratches on all your brass, and also make it more likely to get a stuck case. </p><p></p><p>In my frankford arsenal tumbler, I can clean around 200 rds of really dirty .308 brass effectively, and even brass covered it dirt, heavy fouling, stains and light corrosion came out looking brand new, inside and out, in 3 hours. </p><p></p><p>This is my procedure. I put the brass in my tumbler with about a tablespoon of dawn dish soap if I'm only cleaning a small amount, 2 tablespoons or a touch more if it's full. I run it for 3 hours, pull it out and go to the kitchen. I pour all the contents of the tumbler into a cloth shopping bag, rinse the dirty water out, then fill half the sink with water. If the shells are submerged, the stainless steel media does not cling to the shells, and falls right out. No need for air compressor or anything. So I pull the shells out from under water, the media falls out, and I then set them on a cookie sheet. I bake them in the oven at around 180-190 degrees for 45 min to an hour, and they are good. </p><p></p><p>I do this when my brass starts to get pretty dirty, or if I'm picking up some used brass. I'm not picky about cosmetics, but ill clean it every 4 or so firings. The time I'm actually doing something with it isn't much, set up is maybe 10 minutes, and getting it from the tub to the oven takes maybe 20 minutes or so. Not much time invested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 1290822, member: 87243"] I use a frankford arsenal tumbler, and there are functional benifits. If you load range brass, or dirty military brass, or brass that has stains, it will clean it better than a corn cob tumbler will, and much faster. If you don't clean this brass, you will scratch your die, which will leave scratches on all your brass, and also make it more likely to get a stuck case. In my frankford arsenal tumbler, I can clean around 200 rds of really dirty .308 brass effectively, and even brass covered it dirt, heavy fouling, stains and light corrosion came out looking brand new, inside and out, in 3 hours. This is my procedure. I put the brass in my tumbler with about a tablespoon of dawn dish soap if I'm only cleaning a small amount, 2 tablespoons or a touch more if it's full. I run it for 3 hours, pull it out and go to the kitchen. I pour all the contents of the tumbler into a cloth shopping bag, rinse the dirty water out, then fill half the sink with water. If the shells are submerged, the stainless steel media does not cling to the shells, and falls right out. No need for air compressor or anything. So I pull the shells out from under water, the media falls out, and I then set them on a cookie sheet. I bake them in the oven at around 180-190 degrees for 45 min to an hour, and they are good. I do this when my brass starts to get pretty dirty, or if I'm picking up some used brass. I'm not picky about cosmetics, but ill clean it every 4 or so firings. The time I'm actually doing something with it isn't much, set up is maybe 10 minutes, and getting it from the tub to the oven takes maybe 20 minutes or so. Not much time invested. [/QUOTE]
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