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This is why I tumble the brass in corncob media with a polish before I run it through the press. Even without using pins, or even tumbling in the lemishine/soap/water mixture, they get stripped of whatever it is that gives them the slipperiness to make it easier to resize and expand.
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I don't really do much of an inspection.
I just rinse my cases and media pour off most of the water and tip the lot into my separator.
After I separate my pins and brass I rinse the brass again, then place the brass in trays to dry.
Depending on the time frame I have sometimes I put them into an oven sometimes not.
Anyway the point is if there were pins left in the case I'd see them in the dying trays.
There is one time I do inspect brass for pins. That is unprimed new brass, they tend to get pins stuck in the flash hole.
I do not deprime my brass before tumbling.
Last edited by dbateman; 11-19-2016 at 05:58 AM.
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I use a stasdard Lyman turbo 1200. Don't deprime before tumbling ,rebel cleans superbly , but don't see myself changing yet.
I understand what you're saying.. I followed your link, to see how you're doing it. Myself, I'm looking at reducing the number of steps required to get decently clean brass that dosen't hang up on my powder funnel. So far, what I'm doing seems to fill that bill, and it seems to work well. I don't see the need,for example, to have the primer pockets squeaky clean, for practice ammo (if I'm loading rifle ammo for accuracy I'll take the time to clean them, but not for pistol ammo) the pins work really,really well, too well. I figure it's just unessessary to get the casesTHAT clean.
Last edited by ralph; 11-20-2016 at 08:43 AM.
I am a brass whore. Nothing delights me more than to find some old, grungy brass in amongst the wooly mammoth bones at the range and making that brass all sparkly again. IMHO nothing beats wet tumbling when it comes to cleaning the interior of brass because many times my range treasure is filled with rocks, mud, sand and other debris. Wet tumbling gets rid of that stuff. Also, I've found that nothing cleans up interior corrosion like wet tumbling and SS pins.
It can be overdone though, as noted earlier and clean brass does tend to stick to the powder funnel. To lessen the frustration:
1) 25 minutes in the tumbler, tops. Lemi-shine/Armor All wash n' wax mix. SS pins. Wash n' wax makes the brass slightly slicker IMHO. Shorter tumbling time doesn't clean the interior quite as well. REALLY clean, bright interiors just beg for drag on the downstroke.
2) AA replacement powder funnel in the 650. Much shorter than the Dillon factory version. It also performs much like the classic Lyman "M" belling die.
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/267...-powder-funnel
Last edited by NETim; 11-20-2016 at 09:35 AM.
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Interesting reading on the cleaning without pins, I'm going to assume the case sticking to the powder funnel is something you can really feel running a press manually. I can hear it happen on my press, but I've got a MKVII running it, so I don't feel anything, I just hear it. Will have to try cleaning some without pins next time.
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You sure can feel when the cases stick, it's noticable.. by leaving the pins out,, adding more brass to make up the difference in weight in the tumbler,shortening the tumbling time, the cases come out plenty clean enough, inside and out. Sticking is eliminated. And you still retain the benefits of wet tumbling....No lead dust...All I could teĺl anyone interested is to try it once, see what you think, if you don't like it, then go back to using the pins, you're not out anything by trying it once.
Last edited by ralph; 11-25-2016 at 10:35 AM.