Cleaning STS 12 ga. Hulls

[Silver Creek Jack]

Almost threw these dirty, powder burned, faded, ugly, tarnished hulls away until I read Chas B Wolfsons post about wet tumbling  them. So I dug these out of the bad case bin threw them in my wet tumbler with a squirt of dawn dish soap and a tablespoon of Hornady one shot Sonic clean solution and ran them with the SS Pins for 2 hours. They turned out great! These shells have been reloaded at least 4 maybe 5 times each, a few with APP and you can’t tell the difference. Very happy with the results!

[G W Wade]

Interesting!!       GW

[Boggus Deal #64218]

I just use my crushed walnut hull with Lucas Metal Polish.

[Chas B. Wolfson, SASS #11104]

 Glad to hear what has worked for me worked well for someone else.

I use Strat-o-Sheen per Yul Loose and was a little apprehensive about the pins effect on the hull material.  

My own experience has shown the car wash/wax gives a better overall finish than Dawn and cleans the cases just as well.

Chas B 

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

23 minutes ago, Chas B. Wolfson, SASS #11104 said:

 Glad to hear what has worked for me worked well for someone else.

I use Strat-o-Sheen per Yul Loose and was a little apprehensive about the pins effect on the hull material.  

My own experience has shown the car wash/wax gives a better overall finish than Dawn and cleans the cases just as well.

Chas B 

Truth! I do the same with the StratoSheen with Turtle Wax Wash/Wax concentrate. Leaves a thin wax coating on the hulls which seems to help with shucking.

[Silver Creek Jack]

4 hours ago, Chas B. Wolfson, SASS #11104 said:

 Glad to hear what has worked for me worked well for someone else.

I use Strat-o-Sheen per Yul Loose and was a little apprehensive about the pins effect on the hull material.  

My own experience has shown the car wash/wax gives a better overall finish than Dawn and cleans the cases just as well.

Chas B 

I will try the strat o sheen and the car wash/wax next time, the pins had no effect on the hull other than polishing the burned powder off the plastic and shining the brass to almost a new appearance, I did deprime all the hulls before washing and the pins all slide right out.

[Three Foot Johnson]

A few years ago, I was in the local Harbor Freight and they had a little 3 1/2 cu ft cement mixer/mortar mixer on sale for about half price. I bought one to try out as a hull washer - it works great! I can't imagine one of these cheapo light duty mixers ever working for mixing cement. 

[Eyesa Horg]

Jerry Miculek uses a big one for brass!