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Stainless Pin Tumbling "too clean"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Svashtar" data-source="post: 1885622" data-attributes="member: 112241"><p>This is what I do as well. I dry tumbled for years in first walnut for heavily tarnished brass, then corn cob for a final polish. Then Ultrasonic cleaning came along which worked pretty well generally, and I needed to make sure the brass was dry afterwards. I only use that for cleaning gun or auto parts now. Then the tumbler and SS pins. There's always a new technology. Like you, I don't wet tumble with SS pins each time. I got the longer pins (no primer pocket issues), and only run them through occasionally, and the wet tumbler is just the thing if you have a lot of grungy range brass, which I have a lot of for pistol.</p><p></p><p>The trouble for me with regular vibratory tumbling is that I got tired of buying new media. I treat it with Dillon Rapid Polish, with a couple of old dryer sheets thrown in, but after a while the media gets really filthy and contaminated and has to be changed, plus I have to run each piece of brass through a decapper again to get the media out of the primer pockets. No need to do that with wet tumbling. I use a bit of lemishine and some wash/wax car polish in my wet tumbler, and the brass comes out looking great and loads fine.</p><p></p><p>I have a $40 food dehydrator with trays that dries the brass in no time, but before that I just put it in the oven on low heat for a while which worked just as well. But, I agree, a quick run with corn cob media in a vibratory tumbler cleans them up pretty well, and is also just the thing to get the lube off resized cases.</p><p></p><p>After looking at this thread though, I'm going to have to follow-up on something Parshal wrote in post #16, using rice instead of SS pins. (But in that case a standard vibratory cleaner should also work, so we're back to the first technology in that case!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Svashtar, post: 1885622, member: 112241"] This is what I do as well. I dry tumbled for years in first walnut for heavily tarnished brass, then corn cob for a final polish. Then Ultrasonic cleaning came along which worked pretty well generally, and I needed to make sure the brass was dry afterwards. I only use that for cleaning gun or auto parts now. Then the tumbler and SS pins. There's always a new technology. Like you, I don't wet tumble with SS pins each time. I got the longer pins (no primer pocket issues), and only run them through occasionally, and the wet tumbler is just the thing if you have a lot of grungy range brass, which I have a lot of for pistol. The trouble for me with regular vibratory tumbling is that I got tired of buying new media. I treat it with Dillon Rapid Polish, with a couple of old dryer sheets thrown in, but after a while the media gets really filthy and contaminated and has to be changed, plus I have to run each piece of brass through a decapper again to get the media out of the primer pockets. No need to do that with wet tumbling. I use a bit of lemishine and some wash/wax car polish in my wet tumbler, and the brass comes out looking great and loads fine. I have a $40 food dehydrator with trays that dries the brass in no time, but before that I just put it in the oven on low heat for a while which worked just as well. But, I agree, a quick run with corn cob media in a vibratory tumbler cleans them up pretty well, and is also just the thing to get the lube off resized cases. After looking at this thread though, I'm going to have to follow-up on something Parshal wrote in post #16, using rice instead of SS pins. (But in that case a standard vibratory cleaner should also work, so we're back to the first technology in that case!) [/QUOTE]
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