Tumbling brass

[SNIPER 7MM]

do you tumble brass with the spent primer still in it?

 

[Chaneylake]

I do not

 

[megalomaniac]

Nope, because I'm getting the lube off the brass after resizing it when I tumble

 

[huntinman]

I deprime mine firt. I also add a little Brasso to my media to help clean it up. Works great.

 

[SNIPER 7MM]

thanks.

 

[mr.big]

make sure you get all media out of flash hole..

 

[FULLDRAWXX75]

I deprime mine firt. I also add a little Brasso to my media to help clean it up. Works great.

make sure you get all media out of flash hole..

Same here


FDXX75

 

[44fanatic]

I leave the primer in for large quantities of brass (3000 9mm and 1000 30car). Found I had a lot of media getting stuck in the flash hole. When I deprime it will get rid of any media.

 

[woodchuckc]

I've heard that Brasso is not the best thing to use with tumbling because it contains ammonia, which will actually react with the brass and make it more brittle.

 

[R Crabtree]

do you tumble brass with the spent primer still in it?

Yes.

I tumble with a bit of polish added to the media before depriming. I find the clean brass resizes easier with little or no lube. No media in the primer pocket. This is large quantities of straight wall pistol brass.

 

[TiminTN]

I always tumble with dead primers in. I let the decapping pin take out the bits of media.

 

[AllOutdoors]

I tumble as well with spent primers. Clean brass before I resize for me. Plus as others stated, decapping will clean out the media.

 

[Model70Man]

I deprime first then tumble. Get's all the case lube off and cleans out the graphite. I always make sure the media is out of the flash hole when I clean out the primer pockets.

 

[a retrohillbilly]

I use a universal de-capper, then brush clean the primer pocket and tumble(treated media) to have a clean case to size. I use a wound guitar string to get the corn cob chunks out of flash hole. But,one hundred cases would be a big batch for me since I don't do pistol(yet).

 

[trap55555]

I leave the old primers in so I don't have to pic media out of the primer pockets.