Play With Your Food: Clean Brass With Rice

[hogpatrol]

Ultrasonic did not get the brass as clean as I wanted, Hornady. Great for parts. I got all the matching Hornady stuff. So no excuses.

However, your comment has made me interested in combining SS and Ultrasonic. First a quick tumble in SS to loosen deposits. Then Ultrasonic. Rinse, dry, continue. Add to that, I want to slow down the SS tumbler. I am willing to try my router variable speed controller and sacrifice the SS tumbler if it blows up the timer or perhaps I should put the variable speed controller in like with the motor and not include the timer.

When I use case lube the cases are dry media tumbled after. I have walnut bedding. Proper walnut tumbling media. I haven't really tried corn cob. A buddy recommended it but I have not found what he suggested.

I have never had a pin stick in a primer pocket or flash hole. They will stick inside the cases when wet and fall out after drying. No problem just put them back in with the rest.

I bought some once fired, 6.5-284 tumbled in SS pins and found a pin stuck in the case and one stuck in a flash hole. That was enough to make me swear off the pins.

 

[M-61]

My one use for rice was to remove moly from bullets. It did a very good job. Just dump it out when done as it does attract rodents.

 

[jfseaman]

I bought some once fired, 6.5-284 tumbled in SS pins and found a pin stuck in the case and one stuck in a flash hole. That was enough to make me swear off the pins.

I am just not experiencing stuck pins. Perhaps is the brand of pins? Some longer or shorter or sharper or blunted.

 

[dkhunt14]

I asked my buddy why he tumbles with stainless pins. I told him I read on the Internet that it beats up the cases. He told me it doesn't. He said they use to big a tumbler drum and not enough pins in the drum. I know his brass is really clean. Matt

 

[jrb572]

I bought some once fired, 6.5-284 tumbled in SS pins and found a pin stuck in the case and one stuck in a flash hole. That was enough to make me swear off the pins.

Try throwing away the ones that get stuck. I did and I really do not have anymore problems. My first run of pins I purchased years ago never had a problem.