Wet Tumble Recipes

[Miki]

How very 'green' you are @jaseo69er ...

JPL Sea Clean - mixing carefully balanced quantities of seaweed, coconut oils and fruit extracts to create a powerful cleaning solution.
SeaClean2 will expertly clean tarnished items and assist in the removal of carbon, rust and dirt from most solid metals

 

[Aister]

Warm water, squirt of fairy liquid and half a teaspoon of citric acid. 2 hours in the tumbler then rinse and dry on a towel then into the fan oven for 10 minutes at 100⁰C. That's what gives me the best results.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Stick them in an old bank coin (younger members ask your grandad - coins were round hard metal things that shops accepted before credit cards and phone payment came along - honest) bag, tie the neck well or use a cable tie and throw it in the washing machine with your usual powder/liquid then shuggle them on a wet towel, place in carry-out trays and dry on top of a radiator. Reload.
Simples.

 

[MarinePMI]

Stick them in an old bank coin (younger members ask your grandad - coins were round hard metal things that shops accepted before credit cards and phone payment came along - honest) bag, tie the neck well or use a cable tie and throw it in the washing machine with your usual powder/liquid then shuggle them on a wet towel, place in carry-out trays and dry on top of a radiator. Reload.
Simples.

A pillow case will work in a pinch as well. A lot of competition pistol shooters clean their pistol brass this way.

 

[Foxyboy43]

A pillow case will work in a pinch as well. A lot of competition pistol shooters clean their pistol brass this way.

Yep been there done that.
It is a good idea to wait until the boss lady of the house has gone out - preferably for several hours before you do this. Yep, don’t ask…

 

[Roonster]

How long are you guys tumbling for?

 

[Bavarianbrit]

These came out of my tumbler yesterday, I used lots of pins as a cushion, a drop of detergent and a sprinkle of citric powder ran for 1.5 hours. The condition of them before as they came from a deceased local hunter was awful, almost growing hair on them.

 

[stubear]

Honestly I have the most basic approach - tablespoon of dish soap and water. That’s it.

50 cases, tumble for an hour, rinse, onto an oven tray and into the oven at 60c to dry.

 

[jaffa]

Arial original tee spoon of citric acid roughly dry then in the food dehydrator.
Works for me.

 

[Kyle_hill98]

Citric acid, is that just lemon juice or is it granulated powder?

 

[JockStalk]

Citric acid, is that just lemon juice or is it granulated powder?

Powder.

 

[JockStalk]

Have since converted to 1/2 a dishwasher tab and a half teaspoon citric acid.

On the basis that I ran out of car shampoo

A benefit of dishwasher tabs is they don’t create foam whilst tumbling, which is easier to deal with when rinsing.

Both appear to work perfectly well. Shiny brass is happy brass.

 

[Malxwal]

Have since converted to 1/2 a dishwasher tab and a half teaspoon citric acid.

On the basis that I ran out of car shampoo

A benefit of dishwasher tabs is they don’t create foam whilst tumbling, which is easier to deal with when rinsing.

Both appear to work perfectly well. Shiny brass is happy brass.

Fairy liquid and lemon juice, simples.

 

[Moose67]

2 teaspoons of Fairy Liquid + 1 teaspoon of citric acid powder
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Put the water into the tumbler FIRST

 

[JockStalk]

Fairy liquid and lemon juice, simples.

Heresy. Too much foam. And always the danger that it makes your hands soft like a laydee.

 

[trickie]

Heresy. Too much foam. And always the danger that it makes your hands soft like a laydee.

Too much foam = too much fairy liquid.
I get very little foam, from hot water a squeeze of washing up liquid (not fairy) and a teaspoon of citric acid powder.
At the end the rinse very easily and dry with no water marks

 

[Jagged77]

3 squirts of lemon fairy (got to be lemon fairly) and a shake of Lemishine into very hot water. If no lemishine use dishwasher rinse aid. 4 hours and they come out like brand new brass.

 

[ASHCROFT9491]

Tablespoons each of express washing up liquid and rinseaid for me. used it for years as came with the first tumbler i bought and works a treat

 

[ColinBr]

Fairy liquid, half a tablespoon of citric acid

Then I rinse in some hot water with rinse aid, before throwing them in the air fryer at lowest temp (80 degrees) for 10 mins.

 

[slock1993]

Hi all, jumping on this, I’m very new to reloading.

I’ve read this thread and hand tumbled some brass, I have a container and put in hot water, washing up liquid and citric acid as stated.

Left them out to dry, my question may seem silly but how do I know they are “clean enough” is there an unwritten standard


Would you pop the old Primers out before hand? I did not. Thanks!