Cleaning Cases Period

[mikecr]

I pour the vibratory cleaned brass into one of them bucket strainers.
Pick one up, pour the media out, whack the casehead a few times with the screwdriver handle of a tire repair kit hole puncher, put the case in loading block. The hole puncher pointy end is useful to dislodge from the flash hole what shock didn't.

 

[Longtrain]

I did the walnut, corn cob route, picked it out of flash holes for too many years.

Went to Stainless Steel Pins, never looked back. Everything is spotless and clean. After I tumble and drain the water and pins, I just lay them out flat on a large towel, cover with another and roll them between the towels for a minute or so to get the majority of the water, let them air dry for a day or so, no spots. If I need them in a hurray, I just blow the water out with my compressor.

Since I anneal, I agree that the cases should be very clean to allow accurate the transfer of heat to the case. I just annealed about 400 of my 308 Match cases and in sizing them, if I set the dies for a .001 bump, I get consistency case to case, occasionally a case may go to .002, and I can tell just on how it feeds into the die.

Tony

 

[mikecr]

I did the walnut, corn cob route, picked it out of flash holes for too many years

Well you act like it's a major effort here..
Yet you increased your efforts, for nothing but tarnish and bullet galling!

 

[apakesha]

I use the stainless steel media tumbler. When done tumbling I rinse them in warm water then use compressed air to dry them. I have an air gun with an 1/8 brass tube extension which can be inserted into the case and give each one a blast of air then hit the primer pocket. It takes only a couple of seconds to dry each one. Don't have to worry about tarnishing because they are now dry.

 

[in2deep]

To dry the brass quicker after SS tumbling throw them in a cup full of alcohol and pour the alcohol back into the container with a funnel to reuse over and over. Only takes a few seconds and allows the brass to dry asap.

For a quickie you can do a load of brass from start to finish in about 20 minutes and not have to wait overnite if crunching for a shoot.

 

[wbm]

I just came back from the National Bench Rest Shooters Association [NBRSA] Nationals in Midland and I can tell you the only things the shooters there cleaned were inside case necks and primer pockets. And, these guys are the best in the world at what they do. If time permits, they may wipe off the outside of the neck, but that's it.

+1

 

[AndyW]

I clean primer pockets, brush inside of necks, and cleaning of the actual case only consists of wiping off the lube with a micro fiber cloth.

SS pins, ultrasonic cleaning gets the cases looking like new, but I just don't see the return in my time with an accuracy advantage with this whole process?

 

[in2deep]

There is probably a difference in opinion due to the shooter's discipline and number of cases that need to be prepped. Seems like the PPC benchrest guys only have 15 cases to manage at a time and manually doing them would be much quicker than say having to prep 100 or more pieces for 2 days of F-Class shooting which would take over 400 separate manual steps whereas the same 100 pieces could be completely cleaned in under 2 hours tumbling in SS media.