Brass tumbling additives what are you using?

[HighlandLofts]

The LemiShine cuts through the carbon, burnt gun powder and other crude.
The dawn dish soap suspends the crude in the water.
The ArmorAll wash n wax leaves a little bit of wax on the cases which helps keep the clean finnish on the brass and also helps in the resizing process.

Once I started wet tumbleing i retired my dry tumblers.

 

[G0nefishin]

The LemiShine cuts through the carbon, burnt gun powder and other crude.
The dawn dish soap suspends the crude in the water.
The ArmorAll wash n wax leaves a little bit of wax on the cases which helps keep the clean finnish on the brass and also helps in the resizing process.

Once I started wet tumbleing i retired my dry tumblers.

Wet tumbling is definitely the way to go.

 

[G0nefishin]

Looks like dawn & LemiShine, or something similar is going to be the winner.
I was using dishwasher liquid with dawn just because I didn't want to buy another "thing" for brass prep. Looks like I'm buying another thing for brass prep after all lol

Thank you everyone much appreciated!

 

[HighlandLofts]

Walmart use to carry LemiSine Booster where the dish soap is.
I haven't seen any there for a while.
Amazon has it.
A little goes a long ways.
1/8 to a 1/4 of a teaspoon.

 

[Hemlock]

The LemiShine cuts through the carbon, burnt gun powder and other crude.

So then why are you putting the pins in?

 

[DizzyJ]

So then why are you putting the pins in?

Does a better job than without.

 

[HighlandLofts]

The pins knock off carbon and crude off of the cases. They get inside of the cases and get the inside of cases nice and clean as well as the primer pockets.
If you have a wet tumbler take some grungy dirty brass and tumble it with out the pins for an hour.
Look at the brass, then put the brass back in the drum with the pins and cleaning products and tumble the brass for half an hour and you will see the difference.

If you have been dty tumbling.
Take some brass and dry tumble it for two hours.
Then wet tumble that cleaned brass in the wet tubler.
The water will come out dark black from the crude left on to the dry tumbled brass.
I use a dillion media seperator to remove the pins from the cases.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I just put several hundred 380acp. 9mm. 38spl and 357man in the FART half an hour ago from last sunday s shooting time.

When we get home from the casino i will rince them and then tumble them again for fifteen minutes in hot water and a cap full of Wash n Wax.

Tomorrow i will tumble the 223 brass from last weekend.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Just got the 223 tumbled from last weekends shoot.
I might resize and flar brass that i preveously tumbled and that is already dry.

 

[DDRanch]

I use a Rebel-17 tumbler for cleaning brass. Holds 5#s of pins and up to 5#s of brass. Fill with hot water almost to the top, 1/4 teaspoon citric acid/Lemon Shine and a couple of squirts of Dawn. Run for a couple of hours and rinse/dry. Use to much citric acid/Lemon Shine and your brass will turn pink.

 

[schwartz123]

First tumble with pins in the FART I use 2 tiny cups (no idea what actual measurement is besides liquid medicine size?) after sizing final tumble no pins 1 cup. Makes them shiny. Kinda wish not so shiny so I could see the coolness of them being annealed