Reloading Components

**mustangfreek** · 1 January 2019, 00:16

Nice!

**fledge** · 1 January 2019, 13:06

Thanks for the explanation. I find myself doing the same with the wet tumbler without the pins. Just to clean it.

Btw, I found cheap citric acid in bulk on amazon which is basically the same as lemishine.

Do you do any cleaning after resizing to remove the case lube?

**Former11B** · 2 January 2019, 05:44

Originally Posted by fledge

Thanks for the explanation. I find myself doing the same with the wet tumbler without the pins. Just to clean it.

Btw, I found cheap citric acid in bulk on amazon which is basically the same as lemishine.

Do you do any cleaning after resizing to remove the case lube?

I do it in my process of sizing. I keep an old shirt or rag in my lap to make sure there’s not excess lube on the shoulder to prevent hydraulic dents, and after I size it, I just wipe it on the rag. I did 150pcs of 5.56 last night in short order. I don’t know how well tumbling would remove the lube...never tried it

**cjd3** · 1 January 2019, 23:27

Originally Posted by fledge

Thanks for the explanation. I find myself doing the same with the wet tumbler without the pins. Just to clean it.
Do you do any cleaning after resizing to remove the case lube?

Personally, I always tumble with pins. The brass is just filthy as hell.
After sizing, I sit down at the couch and hand clean them and examine them on last time. Then they are sorted by head stamp. If I had room for storage, I'd get a dry tumbler for this, but my workspace gets smaller and smaller each year.

I've found that a primer pocket will go out before a head separation. As I've had many primer pockets fail the Swage Gauge, but never a separation. Lucky I guess.