bluesako
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do you wear sunglasses as wellI use walnut, but add the T-Cut also
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Woodsmoke
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Hey, shiny brass is sexy brassdo you wear sunglasses as well
So if you want high class sexy, get a "Wet " one 
phaedra
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Ball bearings from Ebay, £15/Kg 1.5mm Stainless Steel media Bearings Shot Ball Tumbling ammo polishing metal 1kg | eBay
I find they work faster than the steel pins which I've been using for the last 6 years.
I find they work faster than the steel pins which I've been using for the last 6 years.
The light is dawning,
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Jamsie
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Trimming to size and deburring takes care of that although I have NEVER experienced anything quite as severe as what's in this photo.
Jamsie
Peening if at all present, gets removed by trimming / de burr sessions, plus I don't use bricks in a wet tumbler.
I made the mistake last week of thinking as I am going to a BDS Range Day I should have Sunday Best shiny brass rather than just clean straight out of the U/S...Stupid Idea.
I remembered having read of people saying tie it in a pillow case and chuck it in the washing machine. So I did it with a load of dog towels on a 14 minute wash. Awful idea, apart from the clanking noise, the case mouths were all battered just like @Utectok 's image.
Even though luckily I spotted it and realised they had to be chamfered inside and out before sizing, the neck tension was noticeably variable and around 20% were battered so short that they didn't meet the trimmer, and 40% still have dimps in the end.
I used to do a lot of tumbling in my silver work and once owned and ran a commercial 1.5 tonne 1.5 metre rubber lined tank rumbler for steel. The silver tumbler was a simple Nivea Hand Cream pot held on a tilted record player turntable filled with snips of silver offcuts and a bit of fairy liquid, that was very effective swishing away at 33rpm.
I did think that snipped / crushed 22LR cases could make a good, readily available media for a vibratory or rotary tumbler for cartridge cases.
Alan
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Foxyboy43
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Interesting, I too was using an ultrasonic bath but first of all my pubic hair fell out and then I developed the most disconcerting shakes! Switched to walnut which solved the shakes but I found a bit rough, in a rather sensuous way…….
Right - just brush the inside of the neck, and you are good to go.
Don't be put off by us neigh sayers , reloading is what you make of it . My new obsessions are powder weighing to the kernel , annealing and primer choice during load development . So , I'm certainly not judging.
If you want shiny cases , go for it . I did find that excessively clean necks seemed to have a negative effect .
I took the blue pill and it tasted funny
If you want shiny cases , go for it . I did find that excessively clean necks seemed to have a negative effect .
I took the blue pill and it tasted funny
Hunterfisher
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I just use vibrating tumbler with walnut media never had bad results yet.ultrasonic as well but not convinced it’s necessary.ultrasonic gets right into primer pockets.it just piece of mind for me.reloaded for years with out ultrasonic tho it doesn’t make a difference to accuracy.
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