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Wet tumbling brass - why is my brass getting tarnished?!
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<blockquote data-quote="gruising" data-source="post: 1577642" data-attributes="member: 32859"><p>Try this. Worked for me forever. Use a cap full of Hornady sonic clean in you tumbler. Use cold water, not hot. Make sure you pins are clean, may have to use a degreaser to get them bright and shiny silver. Rinse in cold water, air dry, not oven or case dryer. If you are in a hurry put a fan on them as they lay on a towel on the floor. Pre wash cases in a bucket of warm water and your favorite dish soap. Use your hand and swish them for a minute or two, rinse all the soap off. This gets most of the sizing lube off so it's not in your pins. When dry I bag the cases in gallon zip-lock bags. I have bags of 223 and 308 brass cleaned a year or two ago that are still pretty shiny, not as good as when they came out but still real good. I have tried all other manner of solutions and the Sonic Clean works the best by far. A quart will last forever. Really, my tumbler is pretty big and I use a tablespoon. Lots of tablespoons in a quart. Winds up costing less per load then Dawn/lemi Shine. Oh yeah, don't touch them with your bare hands, wear exam gloves as the oil from your skin causes them to tarnish. Rinse your pins when done too. If you scoop them in your hand a bit and your hand gets dirty then your pins need to be cleaned. I use the ZEP purple stuff from Home Depot. If you pre-wash they tend to stay clean far longer. I have done more than 10,000 cases this way and it never fails.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gruising, post: 1577642, member: 32859"] Try this. Worked for me forever. Use a cap full of Hornady sonic clean in you tumbler. Use cold water, not hot. Make sure you pins are clean, may have to use a degreaser to get them bright and shiny silver. Rinse in cold water, air dry, not oven or case dryer. If you are in a hurry put a fan on them as they lay on a towel on the floor. Pre wash cases in a bucket of warm water and your favorite dish soap. Use your hand and swish them for a minute or two, rinse all the soap off. This gets most of the sizing lube off so it's not in your pins. When dry I bag the cases in gallon zip-lock bags. I have bags of 223 and 308 brass cleaned a year or two ago that are still pretty shiny, not as good as when they came out but still real good. I have tried all other manner of solutions and the Sonic Clean works the best by far. A quart will last forever. Really, my tumbler is pretty big and I use a tablespoon. Lots of tablespoons in a quart. Winds up costing less per load then Dawn/lemi Shine. Oh yeah, don't touch them with your bare hands, wear exam gloves as the oil from your skin causes them to tarnish. Rinse your pins when done too. If you scoop them in your hand a bit and your hand gets dirty then your pins need to be cleaned. I use the ZEP purple stuff from Home Depot. If you pre-wash they tend to stay clean far longer. I have done more than 10,000 cases this way and it never fails. [/QUOTE]
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