I've heard of guys seating bullets shallower that they want them for storage, and then seating them to desired length just before shooting.

There's a first...JG actually worries about what I think

Schmellba's idea that galvanic corrosion is responsible for any inconsistency strikes me as very logical, and I suspect that is what cold weld actually is. Time for a little reading,I guess!

Don't know if I'm brave enough to try 500 pieces at once. I checked thos brass at 2 hours and it looked pretty good with primer pockets 80% clean, but the brass had no polish to it. At 3 hours the primer pockets were 90% clean and the brass had some polish to it. At 4 hours there was not a major change from the 3 hour mark. Guess I know my duration with that recipe.

Also, at the 2 and 3 hour mark I still had a film of carbon inside the case. So maybe it'll leave behind just enough carbon to satisfy Judd.


And I have wached him seat bullets at my range right before he shot them. Weirdo!

10 pounds of media
2 gallons of water
3 Tbs of Dawn
1/2 tsp Lemishine (per instructions with the media)

If you think I should go a little heavier on the Lemishine, I'm watching.

I put it all in a media seperator which did get all the media out. Rinsed with clean water, put the brass in a pan and placed thr pan in a little toaster oven to dry. I just pulled it out and it did the trick. Running 200 more pieces since 3:20 pm.

What recipe are you using in terms of water, citric acid, and pins? I believe I read you had 10 lbs of pins, so you should have a minimum of 2 gallons of water and at least 3 tsp of citric acid, along with your detergent (seriously - go down to Autozone and get the Armor-All Wash-N-Wax. It is the shizzle for this stuff).

Additionally - did you put fins inside your drum? You really need to watch your RPM's on the drum and keep it slow enough so that the pins and brass don't ride the drum walls, but instead ride about 1/3 to 1/2 way up and then fall/tumble down. The tumbling action is what makes the biggest difference and decreases the time.

(This is also assuming you ran a 3-4 run of nothing but pins, water and detergent to clean the pins from the manufacturing grime and oils)

With my setup and normally dirty brass (range pickup from that day), I set my timer for 4 hours and my brass comes out clean and shiny. For really dirty stuff, I may have to do 2 tumbles, but I've never done more - even with brass that had been outside in the elements for years and looked more like Wolf steel than brass. Anything past 3-4 hours and generally you've used up the citric acid and detergent anyway and don't get much benefit without changing out the water and adding new chemicals.