MADad
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Heck, since I’m asking stupid questions, let me ask one more. I use Dillon lube and wash the lube off using acetone. Does anyone have a better, easier, cheaper method?
Dry tumble in corn cob media. Add a couple ounces of (real) mineral spirits for really big tumblers (like the big Dillon). One ounce for more normal size tumblers. Helps cut the lube and also minimizes dust when coupled with a dryer sheet cut in quarters.Heck, since I’m asking stupid questions, let me ask one more. I use Dillon lube and wash the lube off using acetone. Does anyone have a better, easier, cheaper method?
I dry tumble as described above after sizing operation. Usually 30-60 min. As your media gets loaded up with lube, a bit longer. But it takes a while to funk up as I only use the dry tumbler for lube removal. Switched to stainless pins in a wet tumbler for cleaning. Got sick of running through corn cob with all the scuzzy pistol brass.How long does it take to remove the case lube off cases when dry tumbling? I only wet tumble for 30 minutes w/o SS as a "deep clean" measure, then apply lube on cases, decap/resize, and brass prep. Would be nice if I could just refinish primed cases/loaded ammo with a dry tumbler.
I could also see myself just dry tumbling lightly soiled cases that never touch the ground that are shot from a bolt action/revolver.
No. Opposite. It makes the medium less dusty.For those that toss the lubed brass into their tumbler with media, does that make a mess of the media?
^^^This. Never tumble primed brass. There's absolutely no reason to.I will add, I don't tumble primed brass, too much chance of contaminating or getting media in the primers. I use a Dillon for most common rifle/pistol loading so I would dry tumble the ammo after loading in that case. I wet tumble any real dirty/fouled brass then hand prime, run it on the Dillon to size/load it and then dry tumble it to remove any lube.
I may wet tumble, resize and then dry tumble some rifle brass just to brass prep it before loading if I am loading precision rifle ammo on the Rockchucker. I will then hand prime and charge/load it old school method.
I’ve started doing this recently and wish I had started doing it sooner.Why not just retumble(dry) before priming? The lube helps clean the brass even more. Comes out looking almost brand new.