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Remove lube after loading

Not recommended, just lay your loaded rounds on and old shop towel or old bath towel and spray them with brake cleaner. Gets them squeaky clean and is safe.
 
Just wype em off with a clean towel.
Wouldn't think you'd want all your efforts just tumbling around
 
you do not want to tumble rifle stick powder for very long. it has a coating that can be disturbed
and change the burn rate of the powder..not a good idea.
 
country turk said:
Do any of you dry tumble your ammo after loading to remove last bit of lube? Is this safe to do with loaded ammo?
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Old school here. I deprime separately. Vibratory tumble. Lube and size brass. Tumble again. Load.
First I am NOT in a rush. I don't want debris in my dies. I am not looking for spotless brass....just clean...the second tumble is for a short time which removes any RCBS 2 lube off the cases. End result is clean (no lube) brass ready to be loaded. Works for me.
 
M-61 said:
Old school here. I deprime separately. Vibratory tumble. Lube and size brass. Tumble again. Load.
First I am NOT in a rush. I don't want debris in my dies. I am not looking for spotless brass....just clean...the second tumble is for a short time which removes any RCBS 2 lube off the cases. End result is clean (no lube) brass ready to be loaded. Works for me.
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about the same as I do,,vibratory with primers still in,,hate picking out media,size and deprime at the same time,,dump them into a sonic cleaner gets the lube off
and cleans out the primer pockets at the same time,,
 
Clean components first, then assemble cartridges.

Nothing gained leaving case sizing lube on brass thru assembly, unlss you enjoy trying to get consistent powder drop thru necks that catch powder kernels on the lube that gets in there.
 
"Tumble live ammo?" is an old, much argued subject. I've read both sides of the argument for a few years and both sides have their "facts". One side says the tumbling will degrade the powder's coating and change the burn characteristics drastically and pressures will skyrocket. Some say there's a chance of a primer being hit hard enough to fire the round in the tumbler. The other side points out factory ammo is tumbled as a final process to clean it and the military has shipped ammo in every means possible and all the vibration and jiggling have zero effect.

I read a test by a reloader that loaded up a batch of ammo. He shot some over his chrony and recorded results. He tumbled some for several hours (8?) then disassembled a couple, inspected the powder under a microscope and fired some over his chrony. He repeated this test up to a few days tumbling and testing. His findings showed no determinable change in velocity/pressures/accuracy.

I don't tumble my loaded ammo because it doesn't need it, they are clean when I'm done...
 
All of the above as to why not do it. I never even thought of the powder issue but it makes sense.

I decap, anneal, size, tumble, clean inside the case, prime and seat.

It sure as hell won't help your runout tumbling after seating.
 
Just a note here. This was my experience. I had sized and primed some cases then tossed them in a vibrator with corn cob to clean off the lube. Wond up depriving the cases later on (another story). I found some corn cob stuck in the primers, right at the anvil.
 
do not assemble lubed cases.
if on a progressive press prep and load in 2 steps.
first die on part 2 is a lee universal decapping die to clear the primer pocket
 
My process is as follows:
Vibrator for 3hrs in Walnut Shells
Deprime
Prep case; clean primer pocket, champer and debur
Lube cases using Redding Water Soluble case lube
Neck size and FL size (two dies)
Wash shells with hot water and Dawn dish soap to remove lube
Dry in oven at 250-300 degrees
Prime
Dip necks into graphite
Load powder
Seat bullets
Wipe graphite from cases

The Redding soluble case lube is great, cleans very easily and leaves no residue.
 
M-61 said:
Old school here. I deprime separately. Vibratory tumble. Lube and size brass. Tumble again. Load.
First I am NOT in a rush. I don't want debris in my dies. I am not looking for spotless brass....just clean...the second tumble is for a short time which removes any RCBS 2 lube off the cases. End result is clean (no lube) brass ready to be loaded. Works for me.
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Exactly how I do it.

It drives me nuts to clean case one by one, trim them one by one is bad enough, lol.
 
I have a few large Folgers jugs and when I get done sizing with Hornady or Redding wax lube (usually 100) I fill one half way up with hot water, add in squirt of Dawn and and spoonful of lemishine and let them soak in that for about ten minutes. Swish them around.

Then a quick dunk in my bucket of half acetone half denatured alcohol. Drain then to a cookie sheet. Ten minutes in convection oven just warming up to 170. All clean and totally dry.
 
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