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  • frodo

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    any of you guys wet tumble your brass?
    using stainless steel pins?
     

    kendive

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    I use both. Just depends on the amount of brass I plan to clean at one time. The last time I cleaned around 2000 pieces of 9mm and wet tumbled it.
     

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    I only dry tumble. Wet tumbling looks like too much of a pain, especially the drying.
     

    JohnAL

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    A second hand or yard sale food dehydrator will probably hold 2k 9mm. Load it up, set the timer for 2 hours and forget about it.
     

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    Yes. I use the fat stainless pins (.047). To avoid having the pins trapped in the primer pocket flash hole. An old hairdryer makes quick work drying wet brass. I get much better results than dry media. None of the nasty dust and it's faster.
     

    donr101395

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    Yep, just switch over this year. Love it. Keeps the lead cloud from dry tumbling at bay.
     

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    I do I do... 2 tsps each of Dawn and Lyman's and I use the small pins that came with the tumbler. After the 3 hours of tumbling is up I dump everything in the sorter, then the brass onto a large beach towel. I grab both ends of the towel rolled up, and sway the brass back and forth for about 10 minutes. Most of the left over pins come out, and any pins left will come out while I prep the brass.


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    I only dry tumble. Wet tumbling looks like too much of a pain, especially the drying.

    Actually, it's no more effort than cleaning up the dry media. I rinse my brass and shake off most of the water using a colander. Then I dump the brass into a metal lasagna pan and place it on the tennis shoe drying rack inside my wife's clothes dryer. I set it on cotton for 30 minutes. That's it; simple.
     

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    I use Dawn and Lemi Shine powder in my wet tumbler. Just towel dry when it comes out mirror shiny and no spots!
     

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    I just buy what is needed pre-processed; sized, swaged, and cleaned for $0.03 each. I pick-up what I can a run ~1k batches in a dry tumbler in the "off" season of December, with everything outdoors.
     

    B52

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    I just buy what is needed pre-processed; sized, swaged, and cleaned for $0.03 each. I pick-up what I can a run ~1k batches in a dry tumbler in the "off" season of December, with everything outdoors.

    Where? .03 for brass. I'll take all the 45-70 you have.
     

    SCTaylor

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    Where? .03 for brass. I'll take all the 45-70 you have.

    Haha no, that's 9mm. I'm saving the 45-70 for my future lever gun!


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    I use the wet process and then in the oven at 175 for 30 minutes.....

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