Cleaning brass with tumbler and steel pins - Advice?

[Patocazador]

I use car wash and wax (whatever was on sale that I am using on my car, Armour All, Turtle etc) and citric acid.
Citric acid can be found in the canning section of most supermarkets.
How much acid depends on your water PH and the size of your drum but between say maybe a 9mm case full or a couple of .45 cases full.

I debated about spending the money for wet tumbling, glad I did.
I wash the major crud off in a bucket and do may a 1/2hr pass without depriming the cases. Then I deprime/resize them and do another 45min-1hr pass depending on who bad they are.
Nice clean brass and clean primer pockets.
I like to prime off press anyway. Prime cases while watching the tube.

Dudedog was nice enough to send me quite a few empty cases. I commented to my wife that I had never seen such clean brass. It looked like new brass only a little better. What he's doing really gives excellent results.

 

[Tilos]

One benefit of tumbling not mentioned yet...
I have been known to re-fill white box with tumbled brass/reloaded ammo and taken them to shoot at a "no-reloads" indoor range .
That, and men (and women) really like shiny stuff.

edit: smuggled ammo prolly had dirty primer pockets though

 

[Dudedog]

Thanks Patocazador!