gamestalker
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Even though I use Dillon Case lube, the spray on stuff, I'm usually still very anal about getting the brass as lube free as possible before tumbling. But I noticed tonight that although my brass is very nice looking as usual, it has this tell tale hard build up right above the case heads, letting me know my media is contaminated with lube. I can always tell when I've gotten sloppy with wiping my brass down well enough before tumbling. There was a time when I would absolutely get all the lube 100% clean off, thus getting years of use from a single bottle of media, but I've since gotten lazy.
The good news is I have plenty of fresh new media on hand to use while I clean the old used stuff up. I usually soak the dirty media in a 5 gal. bucket of light soap and hot water solution in. Then after about 15 or 20 minutes I pour it through a screen, then rinse it with lots of clean hot water, spread it out on a couple of my wife's cookie sheets, hidden from sight of course, and then when dry, I dump it back into the media bottles to be used again for another year or so before it gets washed again. Call me cheap, but it works and allows spend more $ on powder and other components, instead of media.
GS
The good news is I have plenty of fresh new media on hand to use while I clean the old used stuff up. I usually soak the dirty media in a 5 gal. bucket of light soap and hot water solution in. Then after about 15 or 20 minutes I pour it through a screen, then rinse it with lots of clean hot water, spread it out on a couple of my wife's cookie sheets, hidden from sight of course, and then when dry, I dump it back into the media bottles to be used again for another year or so before it gets washed again. Call me cheap, but it works and allows spend more $ on powder and other components, instead of media.
GS