Dudedog
Contributing Member
I generally do on cal at a time. If they don't fit inside each other I may mix, say 9mm and .357.
My range has sandy grit which make nice 20-60grit mud so I rinse everything in a bucket and do about a 1/2 hour pass in the tumbler.
Then later I will resize/deprime and run them another 1 hour.
In winter/cold or raining outside I just lay them on an old towel in the corner of a room to dry. In the summer same towel but outside in the sun.
I use the pins in all batches, no reason not to othe than if you don't use them you don't have to separate them, but it's not much trouble once you get the routine down.
Car Wash and Wax whatever I am using for the car (whatever was on sale when I bought it) and citric acid from the canning section of the super market.
Lots of right ways to do it and a few ways to do it wrong.
Example of WRONG way below...
One time I thought I would be clever and added a spoonful of car paste wax to the batch.
BAD, BAD, BAD idea. Everything came out coated with a grey slime. Cases pins yuck. Opened it up expecting super shiny brass, NOPE!
Lots of 409 and a couple of runs with dishwashing soap changing the water every 15 minutes and I had them clean after a couple hours......
So adding paste car wax did not work out well for me at all.
Don't know if anyone else has tried it and had the same result but I would advise against trying it.
(But if you do let me know how it turns out, and don't say I didn't warn you)
My range has sandy grit which make nice 20-60grit mud so I rinse everything in a bucket and do about a 1/2 hour pass in the tumbler.
Then later I will resize/deprime and run them another 1 hour.
In winter/cold or raining outside I just lay them on an old towel in the corner of a room to dry. In the summer same towel but outside in the sun.
I use the pins in all batches, no reason not to othe than if you don't use them you don't have to separate them, but it's not much trouble once you get the routine down.
Car Wash and Wax whatever I am using for the car (whatever was on sale when I bought it) and citric acid from the canning section of the super market.
Lots of right ways to do it and a few ways to do it wrong.
Example of WRONG way below...
One time I thought I would be clever and added a spoonful of car paste wax to the batch.
BAD, BAD, BAD idea. Everything came out coated with a grey slime. Cases pins yuck. Opened it up expecting super shiny brass, NOPE!
Lots of 409 and a couple of runs with dishwashing soap changing the water every 15 minutes and I had them clean after a couple hours......
So adding paste car wax did not work out well for me at all.
Don't know if anyone else has tried it and had the same result but I would advise against trying it.
(But if you do let me know how it turns out, and don't say I didn't warn you)