Deadshot Dan Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Thanks OLG, looks like a pretty economical way to get it done also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Rick Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 How, or do you, dry the brass after wet tumbling? Oven on low, jerky dehydrator, nothing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 10 minutes ago, Chief Rick said: How, or do you, dry the brass after wet tumbling? Oven on low, jerky dehydrator, nothing? I have a lot of brass, so I just dump in on a towel on the floor of the barn,, if it's sunny out, I'll set it in the driveway,, and just let it dry on its' own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Solo Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I picked up a food dehydrator cheap, I use 150 degrees for 45 minutes and they're dry as a bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Mak Jack, SASS #55905 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I do my polishing in the garage and transfer media outside. So whatever dust there is the wind takes away. Been doing it for years and my lead blood test is just fine, Hope you boys aren't snacking when depriming as I believe the primers are also a source of lead. I also use run a dryer sheet in the pot while running the brass to help minimize the dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 12 hours ago, Chief Rick said: How, or do you, dry the brass after wet tumbling? Oven on low, jerky dehydrator, nothing? For 100 or less. Cake pan on top of the water softener with a towel in the pan. Air dry in a day or two dependent of the basement humidity. For more then 100 I made a 30" x 60" wood frame covered with nylon insect screen. Support the frame between two chairs and fill with brass. Air dry in a day or two dependent of the basement humidity. I don't like paying the Electric Utility for what nature would do for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Dee Mak Jack, SASS #55905 said: I do my polishing in the garage and transfer media outside. So whatever dust there is the wind takes away. Been doing it for years and my lead blood test is just fine, Hope you boys aren't snacking when depriming as I believe the primers are also a source of lead. I also use run a dryer sheet in the pot while running the brass to help minimize the dust. Winter time is when I do most of my brass cleaning and reloading for the next SASS season. Right now it is 27 degrees in my unheated garage. My reloading area is in the house basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 15 hours ago, Chief Rick said: How, or do you, dry the brass after wet tumbling? Oven on low, jerky dehydrator, nothing? I lay the brass out on a old bath towel with a small fan run'n. Don't take long.... OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackface Charlie Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I try and stay a few thousand rounds ahead at any given time so laying them out on a towel in the garage for a day or two in the garage and that seems to work fine. Only once in my short reloading career that I was out of brass during a 1K run so I put a couple hundred on a cookie tray in the oven for a minute. I keep 5 gallon buckets in my garage and as they start to fill with brass I wash a couple of loads then bag them up when they are dry. Then I can go out and load a k or k and a half at a time. Rinse and repeat as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Rick Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 8 hours ago, Matthew Duncan said: For 100 or less. Cake pan on top of the water softener with a towel in the pan. Air dry in a day or two dependent of the basement humidity. For more then 100 I made a 30" x 60" wood frame covered with nylon insect screen. Support the frame between two chairs and fill with brass. Air dry in a day or two dependent of the basement humidity. I don't like paying the Electric Utility for what nature would do for free. If I dug a hole under my house for a basement I'd end up with a swimming pool. Humidity stays pretty high down here, too. Nothing is going to dry out down here without some (sometimes significant) assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catlow4697 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 I just put mine on a blanket in the sun for a couple of hours here in Phoenix .Dry Dry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron "Ironhead" Smith Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 On 12/24/2018 at 6:14 AM, Dee Mak Jack, SASS #55905 said: I do my polishing in the garage and transfer media outside. So whatever dust there is the wind takes away. Been doing it for years and my lead blood test is just fine, Hope you boys aren't snacking when depriming as I believe the primers are also a source of lead. I also use run a dryer sheet in the pot while running the brass to help minimize the dust. Primer residue is the primary source of lead contamination for reloaders and shooters. It is lead azide and lead styphnate, both skin absorbable. Dry tumbler dust contaminates an area 5 feet out from the tumbler. Waste water from wet tumblers is also contaminated, wear disposable gloves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Rapid Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 If you want your shells to come out brighter than new from your Frankford wet tumbler, use slightly less than 1/4 cup (60ml) of Strato-Sheen burninshing compound (powder) into your tumbler that is about 3/4 full of water (after you put in the shells and stainless pins). Strato-Sheen is available from Rio Grande (www.riogrande.com). You don't need to add anything else. Comes is 5lb and 25lb boxes. Wear rubber gloves when pouring out the solution and rinsing shells. Amazing bright finish! RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackface Charlie Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Roger Rapid---after reading this post I bought some nitrile gloves----didn't consider the rinsing part would be such an issue. By the way---I use the same media separator. Cheers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Rapid Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Blackface Charlie... Glad you have the Nitrile gloves. Yes, the Strato-Sheen compound by itself - i.e., dry - is not as hazardous for your skin as when it is in solution. Regardless, I wear Nitrile gloves when handling the powder just to be safe. Also recommend three or four good rinses before removing shells from the tumbler. For rinsing, I keep the Frankford screen-cap on the tumbler, and set the lid of Frankford's media separator - turned upside down - on top of a plastic bucket so that the stainless pins fall into the separator's lid (the lid has a fine screen in the center), and give it a good shaking as I'm rinsing (dumping out the solution in the plastic bucket every two or three rinses). Then when I dump the contents into the media separator there's only a few pins left to shake out. RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Mixing brass question.. I quit mixing brass in the vibrating cleaner because smaller cases would climb up in a larger case and I'd pull them apart and media would scatter and the inside of one and none of the other would likely be clean. Right now I have 50 or so 45 Colt, 75 or so 44WCF and 50 38 Special that could use cleaning. Do all in one run? Or not a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said: Mixing brass question.. I quit mixing brass in the vibrating cleaner because smaller cases would climb up in a larger case and I'd pull them apart and media would scatter and the inside of one and none of the other would likely be clean. Right now I have 50 or so 45 Colt, 75 or so 44WCF and 50 38 Special that could use cleaning. Do all in one run? Or not a good idea? Never run cases together than can fit inside one another. You can run 45 Colt and 44WCF together as the slight bottle neck of the 44WCF is a non issue. However if you put 38 Special in with either of them you will have a mess on your hands. I always cull my brass to ensure I don't have the odd case in it before I put them in the tumbler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 5 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said: Never run cases together than can fit inside one another. You can run 45 Colt and 44WCF together as the slight bottle neck of the 44WCF is a non issue. However if you put 38 Special in with either of them you will have a mess on your hands. I always cull my brass to ensure I don't have the odd case in it before I put them in the tumbler. No the 44wcf will get stuck in the 45's. Granted it's not real deep but the do stick and it's a pain when it's 40 out of 300 and all of them need to be separated and recleaned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Southerly Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 I use a FA wet tumbler with water and dish liquid together with ceramic media - 3mm balls ....do not use smaller balls or they will stick in the flash hole ...can seperate over a bucket using the FA screens or a rotary seperator....Lay out on towel to dry....No problems,, no dust, no lead..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 I ran a batch of 45Colt and some C45S through the Frankford Arsenal Platinum tumbler yesterday. I didn't use the pins. Just the sample of soap that came with the tumbler. I ran it for 2 hours. The cases were tarnished and cruddy but not really gross like range pickups. A few had some green mold. But all came out brilliant. The insides are still stained as are the bottom of the pockets but by far better condition than cleaning in the vibration cleaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said: I ran a batch of 45Colt and some C45S through the Frankford Arsenal Platinum tumbler yesterday. I didn't use the pins. Just the sample of soap that came with the tumbler. I ran it for 2 hours. The cases were tarnished and cruddy but not really gross like range pickups. A few had some green mold. But all came out brilliant. The insides are still stained as are the bottom of the pockets but by far better condition than cleaning in the vibration cleaner. Why not use the pins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 13 minutes ago, Tyrel Cody said: Why not use the pins? Two reasons, 1) I don't have a magnet or a spectator to sort them out. 2) I wanted to see what kind of a job it would do without pins. I'm impressed with the results. While it left the stain on the inside and pockets, it did a much better job than what I was getting from the vibration cleaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 18 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said: Two reasons, 1) I don't have a magnet or a spectator to sort them out. 2) I wanted to see what kind of a job it would do without pins. I'm impressed with the results. While it left the stain on the inside and pockets, it did a much better job than what I was getting from the vibration cleaner. just wait until you try it with the pins,,, wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Warden-These were fired with BP, correct? Did you do the vinegar and water soak before hand? OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Rapid Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Warden Callaway... You don't need a magnet. The Frankford tumbler come with screen-like caps that go over the ends of the tumbler (actually just need a screen-cap on one end of the tumbler) so you can pour out your solution and subsequent rinses, and at the same time allow the pins to fall out as you are shaking the tumbler. You can pour solution into any one of several screen devices - like large kitchen appliance ones - to catch the pins and allow the solution to go through. With three or four subsequent rinses and shakings you can pretty much separate all the pins from the shells. RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Warden-These were fired with BP, correct? Did you do the vinegar and water soak before hand? OLG Some were and I did soak them in soap and Limi Shine before - mainly because it was weeks ago when they were fired. We haven't had a match where I come back with a batch of just fired. I'm thinking soaking or at least rinsing the black powder cases first would get a lot of crud off before tumbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Try a soak of 30 minutes or so, of 3:1 water to vinegar. Rinse twice and put in tumbler. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I've cleaned green cases and they come out clean as can be using the pins with dawn and lemonshine,,, and about a 2 hr run time without soaking them first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron "Ironhead" Smith Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 This morning I decapped and cleaned some old brass. Hose water, a little dish liquid and a 1/4tsp Lemi-Shine for an hour and a half. Brass was a gift from an old coworker who fired it the year it was manufactured at Camp Perry and it's been in an ammo can since then, it doesn't get much grungier than sitting 60 years. Cleaned brass and grungy brass in first pic. Second is the primer pocket, still some residue but it will get cleaned again after I match process it for cast bullet use (7 more steps). And lastly the inside of the neck with light shined up the flash hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 On 12/23/2018 at 7:46 PM, Chief Rick said: How, or do you, dry the brass after wet tumbling? Oven on low, jerky dehydrator, nothing? I found a picture of my drying rack for large quantities. It's a "green" method because I'm political correct (in this case cheap). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stony Lane Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Does anyone have experience with the Franklin Arsenal deprimeing tool. It looks good and seems to not require shell holders change for different calibers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 4 hours ago, Stony Lane said: Does anyone have experience with the Franklin Arsenal deprimeing tool. It looks good and seems to not require shell holders change for different calibers. Got one. Don't care for it and here's why... I did see it on sale at Grafs. https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/28223 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stony Lane Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Warden. Thanks for the information. Always good to get input from someone who has really used the product of interest. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 This works much faster... I use this method on cases other than 44WCF, or 45s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Duncan Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 10 hours ago, Warden Callaway said: This works much faster... I use this method on cases other than 44WCF, or 45s. Wow! After watching the vid glad I use the Harvey deprimer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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