A Dirty FART

[gifbohane]

Sometimes I have to wipe out the black grime, which seems to be cooked in, with acetone.

BTW I use nothing but crushed walnut in my cleaning process. New media gets the cases very shiny. well used not so much.

 

[Rule3]

Rile3
Try Dawn Dish Soap and some Lemi-shine next time.

I was just curious. I do not do the Wet clean dance.
Been dry tumbling for years and my crass is clean enough. I do not deprime before cleaning and do not clean primer pockets.
To much work and no real benefit to me. 2 hrs in the dry media and brass is clean and shiny.

 

[Highland Lofts]

Yesterday day while getting out of the house for a couple of hours I stopped by Walmart after I stopped by the stripped down cabelas.
I picked up a small bottle of Finish Jet Dry.
I have a small batch of 45acp range brass in the FART with a ArmorAll cap full of the Jet Dry and a 1/2 teaspoon full of Lemi-shine in hot tap water. It will run an hour just like always.
I will rince it then fill the tumbler up with clean hot water and let it run another ten, maybe fifteen minutes and see what the brass looks like.
You never know until you try.
I'll post pictures of the tumbled brass later.

 

[Highland Lofts]

Tumbled 357 pieces of 45acp in the FART with a ArmorAll cap full of Finish Jet Dry and a 1/2 teaspoon of Lemi-shine in hot tap water. Ran the tumbler for one hour, drained & rinced the brass in the tumbler.
Filled back up with hot tap water and ran the tumbler for another ten minutes.

The brass came out nice & clean & shiny.

The drained water.


The clean brass in the bucket

The brass on my drying racks.


There's always more then one way to skin a cat (the other white meat).

I like using hot tap water in the wet tumbler, if there is any type of oil on the brass it will cut it better then cold water.
I'll use up the bottle of Finish Jet Dry, I'd buy it again.

 

[Soonerpesek]

I was just curious. I do not do the Wet clean dance.
Been dry tumbling for years and my crass is clean enough. I do not deprime before cleaning and do not clean primer pockets.
To much work and no real benefit to me. 2 hrs in the dry media and brass is clean and shiny.

I do the same, brass comes out looking like yours on the right side of the pic.
Mirror finish on the inside of the cases is cool to look at, I guess, but I don't see that it aids in reloading...
Like you already stated, couple hours in the vibrator, nothing to rinse, comes out good enough for me........eeezy peeezy...

 

[10wt308]

I use unscented non additive liquid laundry detergent and lemishine. Gets just enough suds to work but if you get too much dawn well…..

 

[Spare Parts]

Does anyone use Dishwasher detergent (pods,liquid or powder) in their wet tumblers?

As I recall, the Heirarchy of Caustic is

1. Dish Detergent (e.g. Dawn)
2. Dishwashing detergent. Hands don't touch it
3. Laundry detergent. Definitely keep your hands out of it.
4. Lye (NaOH). During the Middle Ages, lye was poured on plague bodies before burial.

In reloading, we start light and work our way up. I suggest using the Least Caustic that works for you, because you may want to use your hands afterwards.

 

[markr6754]

Try the pods that includes detergent plus Jet dry. They’re terrific with a little Tobasco.

I don’t do this anymore. I noticed that it caused all of my rounds to be a little too hot!