Saturday, November 16, 2019

This looks like an interesting little tool. I can think of lots of stuff I could clean with it.




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  1. A dab of Dawn dish washing detergent, some Lemi-shine, and hot water a sonic cleaner will cleanup brass to give it a bright shine. I used one for years until it broke and I never replaced it. I am back to my old vibratory cleaner using corn cob media.

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    1. I like my tumbler with stainless steel pins. Pain in the neck to get the pins from out of the cases but 99% of the time the primer pockets are clean and shiny also.

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  2. I've thought about getting one of those for a while, but never got around to it. I want to hang my O/U barrels so that the breach section is in the bath to clean the extractors/ejectors. Figured that would be easier than searching for lost springs and things from taking them apart...........

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    1. I used to shoot 5k to 6k 12ga a year in multiple trap leagues. I went to northern supply and bought a parts cleaning tank with pump. It holds around 10 gallons of REAL solvent. I would just drop the barrels in the solvent, hold the stock and swish the lock end in the solvent viola. Except for my Mitsui SKB with a Dan Hanson stock. Of course.

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  3. I have a Lyman ultra sonic cleaner. It works great for cleaning brass inside and out with a little citric acid (dish washing detergent or canning citric acid). I still use a vibratory cleaner with untreated walnut shells to dry the cases out.

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  4. One of my shooting buddies has that. I tried it in my work shop and was not impressed.

    I use stainless media with dish soap and Lemishine. As another commenter mentioned even the primer pockets come out nice and clean.

    For separation of brass and media I use one of these:

    https://op2.0ps.us/978-550-ffffff-no-upscale/opplanet-hornady-rotary-media-crank-sifter-050207-0h-r7-rtms-050207-main.jpg

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  5. I use a wet sifter to rotate the S.S. pins out of my cases. Never found one left in any of them. Cleanest brass I have ever seen.
    jack

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  6. The sonic works with parts and smokeless powder loaded cases. I use a lot of black powder in my Sharps, double barrel,lever action carbine and handguns from fooling around with Cowboy action. I'll stick with a tumbler for those.

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