Has anyone tried the car wash to clean brass.

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Got to wash the truck today and thought about taking some brass along in a bucket and give it a wash too.

 

[WoodchuckAssassin]

You might be a redneck if...

Sounds like a bad idea. Haha! You probably wouldn't be the first good-ol' boy to try it!

 

[Certaindeaf]

No. I'm one of the few though that doesn't use a tumbler at all but uses water, hot and cold, with soap and lemi-shine to clean my brass.
I first just use the garden hose and a bucket.. agitate and strain with a collander a couple times and then go hot.

 

[rcmodel]

I'm thinking if you stick a car wash wand in a bucket of brass, you will be on your hands & knees picking up brass all over the case wash bay for a while!

Personally, I gave up on washing & drying wet brass about 40 years ago when I made my first tumbler.
Drying wet brass is a PITA if you want to get any reloading done the same day.

rc

 

[JohnM]

Gotta agree with RC, trying to use a car wash wand sounds like a total mess to me.
Pretty hard to beat a regular old tumbler and crushed walnut.

 

[jcwit]

I agree with RC.

I have used the car wash to clean older military surplus arms with dried cacked on cosmolene and dirt/dust and who knos what tho. Worked very well BTW.

 

[matrem]

Using that school of thought, the Maytag would sound like a better idea to me than the car wash.

 

[beatledog7]

Why not just scatter them in the bed of the truck and go through an automatic wash? That would get the worst crud off, seems to me.

 

[rfwobbly]

The best way I have found is to wait until your wife is in the tub.




Dump in the brass, and then search beneath the bubbles.

 

[Zardaia]

The best way I have found is to wait until your wife is in the tub.




Dump in the brass, and then search beneath the bubbles.

Assuming she dosn't try and drown u for throwing a bucket of brass at her, good idea!

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I'm thinking if you stick a car wash wand in a bucket of brass, you will be on your hands & knees picking up brass all over the case wash bay for a while!

Ha. That's the first thing I thought of too, brass flying all over the place as soon as you squeeze the handle.

 

[boommer]

I'm sorry did you smoke your lunch?

 

[blarby]

wobbly FTW !

 

[fields]

Washer does a good job.

 

[Zeke/PA]

Nah! Sounds like a crop of do-do to me.
I have a small vibratory type thing thats suits me well.

 

[c.latrans]

Boys are gonna play, and I wont claim ownership to this one. A "friend" borrowed...(read that: took one of my minnow traps off the back of my shop)...one of my minnow traps, put a bunch of brass in it and took it through the car wash in the back of his truck. Honestly, he had a bunch of wet brass, nothing more.