85MikeTPI
Ultimate Member
More of a FYI, I know most will never need to clean up hulls, but sometimes it helps to refresh them if needed. Some things I've found, which may or may-not be well known:
-Dry (walnut or corn) did very little but dust up the hull plastic
-Wet tumbling with SS pins and a bit of dawn, works great.
- Be careful of the pins getting stuck inside some smaller (20ga, 410) hulls.
- You must sort/separate any fiber/paper basewad hulls to keep them out of water!
- Decap hulls before wet tumbling, otherwise it'll be like bobbing for apples since they tend to float
- Don't overload the tumbler, the decapped hulls will still be buoyant and too many will limit the agitation of the pins and soap
- Normal brass drying techniques work, I used my dehydrator
- You will lose most of the hull ink markings, if that matters to you.
-Dry (walnut or corn) did very little but dust up the hull plastic
-Wet tumbling with SS pins and a bit of dawn, works great.
- Be careful of the pins getting stuck inside some smaller (20ga, 410) hulls.
- You must sort/separate any fiber/paper basewad hulls to keep them out of water!
- Decap hulls before wet tumbling, otherwise it'll be like bobbing for apples since they tend to float
- Don't overload the tumbler, the decapped hulls will still be buoyant and too many will limit the agitation of the pins and soap
- Normal brass drying techniques work, I used my dehydrator
- You will lose most of the hull ink markings, if that matters to you.
