Media in my flash hole!

[35 Whelen]

Seems to me if you tumble after you lube and size, you eliminate a step. You only clean the cases once. Or am I missing something?

One of my High Power shooting buddies lubes, sizes, washes the cases, dries them, then puts them in the vibrator. His reasoning is that when you tumble the cases with lube on them, the media get dirtier, quicker. I understand this, but even with the way I do it, media lasts a fairly long time.

Pistol cases I use carbide dies, so it's not much of an issue.

35W

 

[MtnCreek]

I use my older, dirty media for the initial cleaning. My brass typically gets too dirty to size without first cleaning. Depending on what I'm loading them on, I either run them through a tumbler with clean media to remove the lube/final polish before loading (loading on single stage) or I tumble the finished cartridges (loading on progressive).

Most of the cartridges I load are on a progressive (I dislike that word) and Dillon Spray Lube (or no lube) is used. It doesn't seem to contaminate the media much. When loading on a single stage I use Hornady Unique. I don't use much, but it will contaminate the media. As long as I use clean brass in that media, it still stays pretty clean.

 

[jcwit]

Seems to me if you tumble after you lube and size, you eliminate a step. You only clean the cases once. Or am I missing something?

One of my High Power shooting buddies lubes, sizes, washes the cases, dries them, then puts them in the vibrator. His reasoning is that when you tumble the cases with lube on them, the media get dirtier, quicker. I understand this, but even with the way I do it, media lasts a fairly long time.

Ya, I know, its just the way I like to do it, drying is no problem with white gas aka Coleman fuel, dries fast. Either way will work.

 

[brickeyee]

I tumble with corncob, not walnut... but I did one time have a rather large piece of cob stuck in the flash hole. I didn't see it before I started loading the case up. I wish I had, as it bent the decapping pin on the end of the rod.

Are you sure it was not a crimped primer?

Or even a Berdan case?

 

[thorn-]

Positive. It was just a plain vanilla WWB 9mm case, with a nice chuck of corncob just in the wrong place. I was surprised wasn't either pushed aside, but somehow it was wedged in just perfectly. The pin bent to the side, and even the sleeve that connects the tiny pin to the main rod was cracked.

thorn

 

[788Ham]

Next time your at the dentist, ask him/her if they have any broken tools, like teeth cleaning tools. They work great, never worry about walnetto pieces again!

 

[DDawg]

+1 for the tumble before depriming.

 

[AABEN]

My wife bought me a LYMAN Ultrasonic case cleaner. I wish I had one way before now. Clean 1.600 9mm & 40 in about 40 min dry ed and started to load in 45 min so in 90 min it was easy going. They look like new brass.