Since I load black powder, I wash my brass with hot soapy water first (Dawn dishwashing), rinse in a colander, then oven dry at 175F for a couple hours to make sure nooks and crannies are dry.. Then walnut/flitz tumble. I do not deprime first. Used to, but doesn't seem to make any difference.Beiruty wrote:If you deprime before you wet wash, it would dry fast. Still I hate to see water hides in the primer pocket. So either I leave the brass overnight to dry or if I want to load right away. I have the FA "food dryer" style dryer. 20 to 30 mins and they are bone dry.AndyC wrote:That does look absolutely outstanding, but how long does it take the brass to dry? Asking because I like to start reloading my cleaned brass right away.
Get a large food dryer from garage sale or online and use large trays to spread the brass. It will go quick.
I can dry 500 9mm cases or so at the same time.
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- Fri May 04, 2018 10:43 am
- Forum: Reloading Forum
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Re: Brass Cleaning
- Tue May 01, 2018 8:24 pm
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Re: Brass Cleaning
I just tried adding some Flitz to my walnut shells (Harbor Freight tumbler). Wow, the results are amazing, like brand new. And I shoot black powder in my reloads.
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:40 am
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Re: Brass Cleaning
Charles, I use the same type tumbler, someone recommended Flitz to me, but I haven't tried out yet. How much Turtle Wax do you add to your load?Charles L. Cotton wrote:I use a Dillon CV-2001 with crushed walnut hulls. I typically use the cheapest car polish I can find, but I recently tried Turtle Wax Polishing Compound. I was very surprised how well it works because I had previously tried one of Mequiar's polishing compound and it didn't work at all. Over time, cleaned and polished brass will get dull, but so far, those tumbled with the Turtle Wax haven't dulled at all. I keep them in sealed 1 gallon Ziploc bags, but I'm going to start using 40# dog food storage containers that are air tight. These are stackable so I can have one for each caliber I reload in quantity.
Chas.
Thanks