Help With Brass Cleaning

[CMBTshooter]

I can't get my 5.56 range pick up brass clean (These things got 48+ hours in the tumbler). Can I send someone my brass to throw in a stainless steel media tumbler?

 

[Oldtrader3]

If it were me, I would not want to abraid the cases beyond that finish polish depth which is delivered by common types of media. You can buy some cone polishing media and maybe it will clean the cases better and more aggressively than walnut shells or clay. However, if you are using these for making higher pressure 5.56 ammo, I would be careful about how much abrading of case surfaces that I did.

 

[CMBTshooter]

Oldtrader,

Are you talking about the plastic stuff for jewelry and whatnot?

 

[Oldtrader3]

Some of it is plastic media with grit embedded, some of it is stone. The cones that we used for polishing kitchen hardware where I worked years ago was stone and it comes in different sizes. Try Brownell's.

 

[Guest]

If you're just trying to get the tarnish off, the easy thing to do is pick up the Iosso liquid brass cleaning kit. Put your brass in the baggie, drop it in the bucket of liquid, and wait the allotted time. Sit the brass out to dry, and once fully dried, run them through the tumbler for about 30min with some citrus based polishing liquid in the media. You'll be very pleased. The Iosso kit is cheap, too:

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/888624 ... leaner-kit

 

[FOTIS]

Backordered....imagine that!

 

[Dr. Vette]

In stock at Sinclair:

http://www.sinclairintl.com/reloading-e ... 34072.aspx

 

[bbearhntr]

If you're just trying to get the tarnish off, the easy thing to do is pick up the Iosso liquid brass cleaning kit. Put your brass in the baggie, drop it in the bucket of liquid, and wait the allotted time. Sit the brass out to dry, and once fully dried, run them through the tumbler for about 30min with some citrus based polishing liquid in the media. You'll be very pleased. The Iosso kit is cheap, too:

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/888624 ... leaner-kit

This stuff works great!