warnmar10 wrote:You're right, it is largely about cosmetics.. and personal satisfaction.rotor wrote:When I first started reloading I used ss media and it really does work. The cases look like new but don't work any better than cases done with my Cabelas tumbler. I found that I was just wasting time for cosmetics. If you want to get those cases clean, inside and out than ss is the best with dawn and lemishine as noted. I deprimed first and the cases come out great. Drying to me was a pain in the neck though. Also you have to pull ss pins out of the primer holes.
I spend ~10 minutes separating pins from cases. I use a tumbling media separator filled to capacity with water. I've yet to have a pin stick in a flash hole. By separating under water the pins can't stick to/in the case.
As for drying, that is the easiest part of my process. I clean ~500 cases at a time. After taking them from the separator I pour them onto the center of a very large beach towel. I grab both ends of the towel and make a sling that the cases ride in. As I raise and lower each end of the towel the cases tumble inside the sling. From there I dump them onto a half sheet pan and shove the whole thing into a preheated 170° oven. I don't know how long it takes for them to dry but I usually pull them out after about 40 minutes and all are dry.
You know what you are doing! I spin them in Lyman separator for some 30sec each way and the pins are not anymore in the cases. I use the magnet "tool" to pick the SS pins back to the tumbler and there where they stay. If I leave the pins on a large towel, in the morning, they are as dry as Arizona' long horns. I have the dryer blower thingy if I need to work on them soon.
