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Posted: 11/21/2012 7:47:37 AM EDT
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Now if you could find some stainless steel shot.
It is citric acid. Good stuff as it complexes lead from the priming, washing away your problems. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 7:50:06 AM EDT
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Now if you could find some stainless steel shot. It is citric acid. Good stuff as it complexes lead from the priming, washing away your problems. I was surprised at how well it worked.. and boy does it burn in fresh cuts. 
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Posted: 11/21/2012 7:56:34 AM EDT
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Here's the only image I have handy, but this brass was cleaned in a thumbler's tumbler with lemi-shine. The brass was fired with a suppressor and was absolutely fithly before hand. It's great stuff.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:01:18 AM EDT
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yup. I had baked on swaging lube that I didn't clean off before I tossed some jackets in the oven for annealing. they were black when they came out. after washing they looked as good as your brass above.. it it beat the hell out of walnut or corncob media. Also no abrasive residue I then would have to worry about going into my dies.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:02:16 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:02:56 AM EDT
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Approves!!! But that is good to know. I've been wanting to get into this. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:09:48 AM EDT
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yup. I had baked on swaging lube that I didn't clean off before I tossed some jackets in the oven for annealing. they were black when they came out. after washing they looked as good as your brass above.. it it beat the hell out of walnut or corncob media. Also no abrasive residue I then would have to worry about going into my dies. Tell me more about this "annealing". It's a strange and mysterious magic that I would like to learn someday. I have a blow torch, so I'm half way there. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:12:12 AM EDT
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Are you putting water in the bucket with the lemi-shine, soap and brass? Or just when you rinse them?
I have a bunch of brass I need to clean but no tumbler at my place. This would be an easy way for me to clean them. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:19:08 AM EDT
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Are you putting water in the bucket with the lemi-shine, soap and brass? Or just when you rinse them? I have a bunch of brass I need to clean but no tumbler at my place. This would be an easy way for me to clean them. i took a hospital puke bucket, filled with nasty brass, about a table spoon of Lemi-shine, a squirt of dish soap, and enough hot water to cover brass then mix by hand. kneed it like bread, and really agitate it by hand. about a good 10 mins.. Drain, wash again with clean water to get all the crap out. Throw on a towel to dry. A tumbler and SS pin media would be much better but I haven't get them yet. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:21:51 AM EDT
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yup. I had baked on swaging lube that I didn't clean off before I tossed some jackets in the oven for annealing. they were black when they came out. after washing they looked as good as your brass above.. it it beat the hell out of walnut or corncob media. Also no abrasive residue I then would have to worry about going into my dies. Tell me more about this "annealing". It's a strange and mysterious magic that I would like to learn someday. I have a blow torch, so I'm half way there. pan of water, stand brass in it, heat neck to dull glow then knock it over. repeat till done. But in my case, with jackets I stick them on a cookie sheet and set the over to self clean mode. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:25:02 AM EDT
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I recommend it to my customers all the time... You should see what it does to dishwashers that are all crapped up.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:26:39 AM EDT
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I recommend it to my customers all the time... You should see what it does to dishwashers that are all crapped up. wait what? it has other uses? Tell me more! |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:36:27 AM EDT
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I've got one of the Lyman ultra sonic cleaners. Do you all think it'd work ok with the lemi-shine and water/soap soution? It has the built in heater in it to keep the water hot. Thanks
Jason |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:38:39 AM EDT
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How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment?
I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:44:19 AM EDT
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How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment? I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. This is what I do. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:45:51 AM EDT
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yup. I had baked on swaging lube that I didn't clean off before I tossed some jackets in the oven for annealing. they were black when they came out. after washing they looked as good as your brass above.. it it beat the hell out of walnut or corncob media. Also no abrasive residue I then would have to worry about going into my dies. Tell me more about this "annealing". It's a strange and mysterious magic that I would like to learn someday. I have a blow torch, so I'm half way there. http://www.6mmbr.com/annealing.html |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:46:11 AM EDT
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You should get a Thumler's Tumbler.
Nasty brass 
In tumbler barrel, with lemishine and dish soap 
Add SS media 
Fill with hot water 
Tumble for 2 hours 
Turns into this 
Rinse and remove media 
Like new 
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:47:06 AM EDT
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How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment? I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. I put them in a beach towel and roll them around to get the majority of the water off, then into the oven are warm for 30 min. |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:55:07 AM EDT
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How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment? I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. I use an old hair dryer.Hang it up a few inches above a container with the brass in it and let it blow for awhile.I got fancy once and made a container out of a coffee can with one hole to fit the discharge on the dryer and had vent holes in the opposite end for continuous air flow.It worked like majic! |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 9:03:09 AM EDT
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Pretty brass.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 9:20:41 AM EDT
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Can you do this to nickle plated brass?
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:01:41 PM EDT
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Can you do this to nickle plated brass? I don't see why not. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:31:22 PM EDT
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Gonna have to try this for my .308 brass
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:45:43 PM EDT
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Can you do this to nickle plated brass? I've heard reports of people getting darkened/blackened nickel brass, supposedly from using too much Lemi-Shine. Never experienced it myself, but I do thoroughly rinse and dry brass immediately after tumbling 2 hours. YMMV. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:49:09 PM EDT
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The most frustrating part of a Lemishine soak is that is softens the carbon deposits in just 30 minutes or thereabouts so that it can be easily wiped out, but it clings so well that mechanical action more vigorus than simply shaking a container is needed to break it loose.
If someone found another additive that broke the bond, the stainless pins and rotary tumbler wouldn't be needed. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:50:56 PM EDT
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Can you do this to nickle plated brass? Sure. The solution and pins will remove 100% of the carbon build up. The citric acid solution is weak. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:52:25 PM EDT
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Where do I get the SS pin media?
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:55:26 PM EDT
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How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment? I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. Clothes dryer with some towels for 3 minutes on medium heat. Makes a hellacious racket, but it shakes all the water out of the cases and gets them bone dry in only a couple of minutes. eta: Don't overload the dryer. No more than 10 pounds of brass. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:57:36 PM EDT
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Check the reliading forum... There's a thread on "how I built my own stainless tumbler"
Home built units are cheaper and better than that thumbler unit. The one I built can do 700 .223 cases at a go. Been running it for a year... Thousands of pieces of brass... Best brass cleaning system evaaaarrr |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 2:16:12 PM EDT
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Nice.
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Posted: 11/22/2012 3:52:14 PM EDT
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Where do I get the SS pin media? Pellets Plus |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 4:00:13 PM EDT
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Where do I get the SS pin media? Pellets Plus Midway has them as well |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 5:27:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment? I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. Clothes dryer with some towels for 3 minutes on medium heat. Makes a hellacious racket, but it shakes all the water out of the cases and gets them bone dry in only a couple of minutes. eta: Don't overload the dryer. No more than 10 pounds of brass. Yes, it IS LOUD. But it does a great job drying cases, imagine that. I bet ultrasonic cleaning with Lemishine would be the ultimate cleaning. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 5:31:43 PM EDT
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I think I'm sold on a wet tumbler after reading this. I use walnut and a older tumbler, my brass looks like crap. I know it's 'clean' but they just don't look nice. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 6:04:32 PM EDT
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How do you all dry your brass after the Lemi-Shine treatment? I've been drying them out on a cookie sheet in the oven @ about 175 degrees. Clothes dryer with some towels for 3 minutes on medium heat. Makes a hellacious racket, but it shakes all the water out of the cases and gets them bone dry in only a couple of minutes. eta: Don't overload the dryer. No more than 10 pounds of brass. Yes, it IS LOUD. But it does a great job drying cases, imagine that. I bet ultrasonic cleaning with Lemishine would be the ultimate cleaning. There used to be a good tutorial at 6mmbr.com about ultrasonic cleaning with Lemishine and dish soap. The results were indeed just as nice as with the rotary tumbler. That person used a lid over the tank with holes for beakers to contain the solution and brass so he could tune the response by moving the beakers up and down in the water contained in the cleaner tank. http://www.accurateshooter.com/technical-articles/ultrasonic-case-cleaning/ Here's one I scaned: http://www.accurateshooter.com/technical-articles/ultrasonic-cartridge-cleaning-tips/ Ultrasound eliminates the need to separate pins, and that is a plus. The cost of a large ultrasonic cleaner causes this method to lose out to rotary tumbling with pins. I have found low cost plastic strainers in three mesh sizes that fit in the top of a gallon bucket that I'll report on after I get a first hand look at them. They sell for $5.50 to $7.50 at different suppliers. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 6:16:45 PM EDT
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Thoughts on wet solution's ability to delube?
I've tried washing brass after processing with dish soap in a clothes washer, but it just doesn't seem to do nearly as good a job at getting the lube off as tumbling with corncob or walnut. I really like the idea of switching to a wet tumbler if for nothing else than to stop abusing my lungs with corncob dust. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 6:20:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/22/2012 6:38:34 PM EDT
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Thoughts on wet solution's ability to delube? I've tried washing brass after processing with dish soap in a clothes washer, but it just doesn't seem to do nearly as good a job at getting the lube off as tumbling with corncob or walnut. I really like the idea of switching to a wet tumbler if for nothing else than to stop abusing my lungs with corncob dust. Get the dust out of your media with used dryer sheets, and cut the time in the tumbler down. A rotary tumbler with clean corn cob, and that means no additives, requires 8 to 10 minutes. Delubing in clean walnut in a vibratory tumbler requires 15 minutes, tops. |
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