I like to see other people are as spastic as me.
I handle my brass probably way more than I should. But I am always overly cautious. I do a combination of things like many of you.
I pick up any and all brass I can get my grubby hands on. I reload only 9mm right now I do a quick visual sort and pick out what I can and save it for friends that reload other calibers. I have just started wet tumbling- sort of. I used to dry vibrate only and read here about hot water, Lemishine and dish soap. I put a bunch of brass in a OJ bottle add water, soap and Lemishine and shake shake shake. Rinse and repeat once or twice depending on how much crud is in the bottle and then fill it again and let is sit for about 1/2 hour, shake vigorously occasionally and rinse rinse rinse. It comes out amazingly clean. I put it in a towel and spread it out and handle it again looking for cracks, mis-shaped other size cases and wrap them up in the towel and rub and turn them. Opening the towel and running my hands through them again. After they are dry, I lay out paper towels and take each one and turn them upside down and make nice square shapes which makes it real easy to sort them even further.
They sit for 1 to 3 days depending on my schedule. I have found that some of the cases will tarnish in that time. Some really badly and the majority of them are okay but dull. I then run them through my vibratory tumble with corn cob and a little Nu Finish for 30 to 60 minutes and that shines them up real nice.
Then- I take my Bucket-O-Brass and use the square empty 100 count 9MM cases and do like the video and fill them. This leaves 100 cases face up in the trays. I can further inspect the cases, look for left over media in the case. I have recently purchased a wire trash can at the dollar store and after vibrating I dump the media and brass in to the trash can over a bucket and I very rarely have any media in the case. Then- I use another 100 count plastic storage tray and put it over the first one and turn them over. I can then look at head stamps. I then close the case and store them to be reloaded. When I am ready to load them, I put a post card over the top of the plastic box and flip it over on my bench and have a sweet square of 100 cases standing face up at attention ready for duty.
I touch them as many times as I can and so far, I have only had one cracked case that made it to the press and I saw it right away- With my LED light mounted on my press.
I also have an excel spreadsheet that I track all of my info like BigMacMI plus chrono data. Easy to track and find what works best. As I load I put the loaded rounds in a bowl and when I am done loading I place them face down in the plastic cases and inspect again looking for primers that didn't seat completely. I then use another plastic case and flip them again to look at the loaded rounds from the top.
And finally I put them in a ziplock bag labeled with masking tape with the date, quantity, powder, grains, bullet type, COL. I also have a numbering system so when I grab a bag and I have any questions about them I can easily go back to the spreadsheet for additional info if necessary.
I am indeed very spastic but I am also very cautious.
I have a Frankford Arsenal Platinum wet tumbler sitting under the tree and can't wait to replace the OJ bottles and use the (magnetic) stainless pins.
This has been a great place for me to learn all kinds of great things. I learn new things all of the time and try to share what works for me.