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Posted: 3/7/2010 3:55:30 PM EDT
| Is it nessesary to clean the cases after sizing to remove lube, prior to charging? Using Dillion lube. |
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Retumble them. I do mine for about an hour while I do something else. Make sure they are void of any media when you start to load (including the primer hole and pocket). I have personally found that retumbling after the lube seems to make them even more shiny. This. You only need to remove the lube before you fire the ammo. When you do this is optional. The above is a very easy way to accomplish the task. |
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Is it nessesary to clean the cases after sizing to remove lube, prior to charging? Using Dillion lube. The reason I like to tumble the casings is because I do not want the build up of gunk in my chamber so that the next round does not stick inside and cause major damage to my rifle.... |
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Is it nessesary to clean the cases after sizing to remove lube, prior to charging? Using Dillion lube. Sir, as you may have noticed if you've read some of my other posts I advocate using lube on the inside of case necks to facilitate passage of the depriming rod with expander ball from the case interior during resizing. For that reason I think removing lube before charging and seating is an important step due to the fact that lube on the case neck interior affects neck tension on the bullet. My choice of method for lube removal is a tumbler with corn cob media. I used to use a dry rag but found this to be more tedious than poking media from flash holes. Also, I don't believe having case sizing lube on the outside of the case is a good idea either. JMHO, 7zero1. |
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Quoted: Lessee...Quoted: My mad method is to tumble clean then size/deprime and do case prep (trim and debur with case inspection) then back to the tumbler to get the lube off then do another inspection then load normally and inspect final rounds  my method too 1) Tumble for an hour or so in walnut 2) lube, size/deprime 3) Tumble for 15 minutes or more in walnut 4) Soak in Lemishine overnight or longer, rinse and let dry 5) Tumble in corncob for 1-2 hours 6) poke media out of flash-holes 7) trim, (swage if needed), prime, charge, seat bullet Yep. I tumble them 3 times. The second time in Walnut is to keep the lube from getting mixed in with my lemishine solution and to let the lemishine get to the dirt better (the lanolin I use for lube tends to not clean off in lemishine very well, and mucks up the lemishine solution quickly). The Lemishine and Corn-Cob tumbling is solely because I like shiny brass. These steps can be (and are) skipped altogether if you don't care about tarnished brass. I have no idea if my lanolin lube would affect the powder in cases. I have no intention of finding out.  I know if you use one-shot or various other commercial lubes, generally it's not a problem, but you'll still want to clean off the cases before chambering them in your rifle. |
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I've wondered about this whole process myself. I haven't done more than an initial work-up in .223 at this point (no production runs yet for rifle), but I already know I have no interest in poking media out of flash holes with a paper clip, ever. My process will likely go something like this:
1.) Tumble in walnut 2 hrs to clean 2.) Lube, deprime/resize 3.) Decrimp, trim, chamfer/debur 4.) Soak in hot lemishine/dawn solution 2 hrs, rinse and dry (to clean lube off) (at some point down the road this will be replaced by an ultrasonic cleaning step) 5.) Load! 6.) Tumble in corncob ~30 minutes for bling factor 7.) Shoot and repeat! |
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