Need to wear gloves w this. Read comments on another post from someone who did this for years. He Got cancer from the lead release from this process. Apparently the hot water opens your pores and the released lead instantly goes into your skin. None of this should be done anywhere near where food is prepared, including your oven. Good luck.

I know this is an old video, but it was excellent. I wish I’d come across it years ago.

So you only clean them once with the spent primmer in place? Or decap after a clean and then clean again?

Trying your method now!

My tumbler bowl cracked. Was just looking for a cheap option to use until I get a new one. I’ll probably just still with this method. Cheap, fast, and effective.

Again. I pull this up every time I clean my P225. Thank you. Eric

Excellent presentation. Very good.

I put my brass in a bucket with hot soapy water and a spoonful of powdered citric acid mix them up for 10 minutes rinse them and they are already almost perfectly shiny then I tumble them for 30 minutes in walnut media to dry them and remove any haze they come out better than New! Highly polished!

Great video. Thanks..

I still use this method. Works well.

I don’t understand whet the salt does to help clean the cases. Have you tried the Vinegar/dish soap without the salt ?

Quick question: All perfect, except for some of the brass has white marks inside any idea whats causing that? It appears to be kind of like a paste that can be brushed out with a bore brush but it leaves behind parts of the brass removed and more silver colored. Also had some green spots on some especially down where the primer pocket is. Is it not drying enough, is it too much salt etc?

Thank you for the recipe - it hadn't occurred to me to create my own solution until I stumbled across this vid. The first time I used this solution it seemed to work really well in my Lyman tumbler with the cases coming out ultra shiny after only 1 hour tumbling with stainless pins, but a few tens of seconds in open air and they started turning brown, the zinc being leached from the cases by the acidity. 1 cup of vinegar seems too aggressive in my opinion - I now use 1/3 cup of vinegar with an extra cup of water, 1 teaspoon instead of 1 tablespoon of salt and a bottle cap of floor cleaner instead of dish soap (less frothy foam) and just increase the tumble time from 1 to 1.5 hours and the cases come out great without having to rush to neutralize the acid. My recipe: 1 teaspoon salt 1 bottle cap of lemon scented floor cleaner 5 cups water 1/3 cup vinegar

Thank you for the solution for brass cleaning, I will be using it on brass clock movement cases. Does it degrease as well?

This classic recipe (I add 1 cup lemon juice to 2 cups water to his other ingredients) works for me as a "prep". The next day I dry tumble 2 hours in walnut media, then 2 hours in corncob. I've found you have to use BOTH types of dry media, not either/or. This recipe will get off 90% of the gunk in a pre-wash, thus saving your expensive 'Brass Juice' cleaner or equivalent. A wet wash makes dry tumbling safe as all the nasty powders are gone. If I do it for 30 minutes and oven dry, I end up with "pinkish" cases (weakened). For me this works best as a First Step. Getting range residue off first also makes it safe to put in depriming dies. Doing your final rinse in whatever method with distilled water and a couple drops of Flitz Gun Wax (or liquid car wax) and then shook in a rolled towel eliminates water spots.

Hair dryer is how to dry your brass I get my brass up to 180 degrees using the dryer then let them cool at room temperature !

This ruined 300 of my 7.62x51 LC cases not sure why or how but it did. So thanks I guess. I only did them for 20 mins as a test

What about items needed to clean dirty brass or brass that has already been shot.

I use aluminum brownie pans from Walmart to dry my brass 4 for $1.29

Just googled" sights for the Ruger LCP Max .380 the cost blew me off my chair $99.95 unreal and the front sight with the rear ..can't be put on by yourself dove tail doesn't fit correctly

What is the recipe for the vintages solution.?

Is okay to use this method if the cases are already deprimed?

Watch this on 1.5X speed, thank me in the time you saved😁

Works effectively, doubled the recipe, 1000 9mm shake occasionally for 10 mins. Oven dry 170 deg 10 to 15 mins. Why bother with a tumbler?

I use a similar recipe and have a problem where I get a white powdery residue inside of SOME of the cases. Am I using too much salt? U also get some that look almost like rust inside. I use a non metal bristled barrel brush and it cleans them right out, it's just an extra step I don't want to take. I do think I'm using more than a tbsp. I am also rinsing the cases very well in hot water. Any thoughts?

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thanks for the video... it answered questions.

I cleaning only in vinegar, this looks much better. Is there somebody who can convert these stone age units from recipe to regular present day units???

Use bulk citric acid, little bit of dawn dish soap and your good to go . Frugal and save some cash I got my sonic cleaner on Amazon for 36.00 works very well with my homemade solution too !

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I am also a Pilot and I have guns too...lol

Thanks for sharing! How is it holding up since you posted this?

Sonic cleaners suck overall for cleaning brass. They're great for small parts but not for reloading. You're better off going to Harbor Freight and buying one of their small wet tumblers. I can do roughly 50 223 cases in each drum. Takes only about 2hrs using Dawn and Lemmi shine and stainless steel media.

When you use vinegar and salt you need to neutralize the brass by soaking it in a water / baking soda mix for about a minute.

What I don't understand is that the vinegar cleans because it's acidic and the salt cleans because it's caustic. Surely mixing the two negates each other?

Can this vinegar solution be used for electronics (except an LCD)? Thanks.

Cool, I've tried 99.9% alcohol for electronics parts (remove any LCD or maybe OLED screen, it'll destroy a layer in it and make the LCD translucent), not sure if that's a good idea. I always use it in the bathroom with baking soda and water in hand, just in case it catches fire. Not sure if distilled water would have as cleaned well but safer as pure 99.9% isopropyl alcohol. God bless, Rev. 21:4

Wtf. Mmmm word mmmm word mmmm word. WTF

im a digi scale guy..and i have had that scale (without the hornady sticker, and paid more for it lol) and i can say digis dont always update their numbers quickly... meaning that sometimes it takes it a little to go up that last point when you trickle.. sometimes you gotta kinda tap the plate a little.

That turned my brass pink

Use lemmi shine instead of salt and vinegar and soap and dawn works best

Bitchen data , thank you for this content !

Unless you're using your cleaned brass to make jewelry, 1-2 hrs in a vibratory tumbler is quicker, easier and cheaper.

What happened to the vinegar solution recipe video? Your link says its unavailable.

For hunting rifles, a single stage press is fine. I use a single stage RCBS Rock Chucker JR2 I bought in the 1970s at a garage sale and it is still my go-to press for handloading hunting rifles. The Lee Universal Decapper that fits in the press is handy to punch out fired primers. Also a RCBS bullet puller that fits in the press to remove the bullet and powder for any mistakes. For rifle hand loads, cases must be lubed before resizing, otherwise they will get stuck in the die while resizing.

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whats the recipe for the vinegar?

Hi, I cant find you recipe for the ultrasonic cleaning solution you used.

The recipe video was taken down! I need this recipe!

Would you share the code