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    stainless steel media brass cleaning recipe

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    1/3 lidl w5 dishwasher tablet
    teaspoon citric acid
    warm water......no suds just black water afterwards lol

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    Looks like a pirates treasure chest.

    Need a photo of that homemade tumbler too.

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    you have email

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    Quote Originally Posted by loiner1965 View Post
    http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/...5/IMG_0821.jpg
    1/3 lidl w5 dishwasher tablet
    teaspoon citric acid
    warm water......no suds just black water afterwards lol
    How log did you tumble them for? Thanks.
    Big Ears AKA BE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by junkyard dog View Post
    How log did you tumble them for? Thanks.
    90 mins......i only use warm water now but i do drill a small hole in the centre of lid for expansion......works a treat

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    Quote Originally Posted by loiner1965 View Post
    90 mins......i only use warm water now but i do drill a small hole in the centre of lid for expansion......works a treat
    Thanks, I'll give that a go.
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    sent you a couple of pics by email showing tumbler

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    I use a table spoon of biological clothes washing liquid and a 1/3 tea spoon of citric acid. That was the recommendation from JDReloading when I bought a Rebel17 tumbler from them.
    I tumble for about 2 hours total, binning the black sludgy water after 1.5 hours and refilling with clean and tumbling for 30 mins.

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    I was using about a teaspoon of Apple flavoured washing up liquid and a teaspoon and a half of citric.
    Comes out looking great.

    A few months ago, I switched to using car 'wash and wax' instead. Apparently, the carnauba wax may protect the brass (preventing dulling) and help with resizing (replaces lube). My personal jury is still out on this- I think the Turtle Wax i picked up cheap isn't that good, it still seems to tarnish.... Should have gone Armourall or Meguiars maybe...

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    Quote Originally Posted by physeptone View Post
    I was using about a teaspoon of Apple flavoured washing up liquid and a teaspoon and a half of citric.
    Comes out looking great.

    A few months ago, I switched to using car 'wash and wax' instead. Apparently, the carnauba wax may protect the brass (preventing dulling) and help with resizing (replaces lube). My personal jury is still out on this- I think the Turtle Wax i picked up cheap isn't that good, it still seems to tarnish.... Should have gone Armourall or Meguiars maybe...
    nothing wrong with the above its just creates alot of suds lol

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    Funilly enough I only ever used Sea clean in mine until I read this, tried a squirt of fairy liquid and it made a hell of a difference.

    I tend to just rinse them in as hot a water as I can then shake them out and leave them on a towel to dry or bung them in an old sock and leave them on the rad. I am lucky as I can came as much mess as I like in the utility room

    The only slight niggle is that the STM will peen the case mouth edge a bit, but I run all cases through a 3in1 cutter after each sizing anyway. We cycle pretty quickly so the nice shiny cases help avoid poor feeds...hopefully

    I would not use anything else now
    I'm a maggot in another life you know

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