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britrifles
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I’ve used a UT cleaner, does work fairly well, but I don’t want to wait for the brass to dry, they get resized right out of the tumbler.
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MJ11
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I have three tumblers of the shake and tumble all worn out sitting on the floor. After that I went to de-prime, get out some .30 cal bore brush an old wire colander and a plastic bucket of DAWN dish washing soap and get to town. When I'm real lazy after de-prime I used a heavy mesh net bag and drop 100 case in the clothes washer. Drain and spread on the cookie sheet into the oven at 100F for twenty minutes wipe with a clean rag lube and size. I have small SS end brush in a small cordless two seconds up the primer pocket and your lubing and loading from there. I stopped using abrasive liquids in corncob media because you never get it off the case then it wears on the inside of the die and rifle chamber. One think I recommenced not letting the wife come home and find 100 cases in the oven on her cookie sheet.
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The Spartans do not ask how many the enemies are but where they are
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A square 10
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i use a tumbler with corn cobb or walnut medium , im cleaning straight wall cases so mine are easier to deal with that your bottleneck but the principles are the same
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Shamu
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I have an old Lyman Orange vibratory tumbler & I use walnut media. A couple of hours is all it needs you don't need to polish to a high gloss, in fact some don't like that as its thought too slick isn't good. I separate the media with a home brewed gadget involving a couple of plastic colanders. I clip & zip tie them together to make a mesh "ball" & just rotate it by hand over a 5-gallon pail to collect the media. |
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Marco1010
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Drying cases in the oven on the baking trays....... Yeah I'm sure all of us have tried out some method of doing something that has a tendency to piss off the wife !! I was in the dog box for burning off about a kilogram of unstable 60 year old powder in the back yard. I think she thought that the 20 foot high flaming inferno might have been a tad too much. That and the blistered paint on the wall of the house from the radiant heat. Or maybe it was because the kids had no eyebrows and an instant sun tan. All I know is that I had to retreat to the workshop for a while.... days.....weeks. |
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Bear43
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Marco, after that adventure with the powder..... how are you still married?
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paddyofurniture
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Might still be in the dog house.
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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englishman_ca
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paddyofurniture
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Sorry to hear about your untimely death. Hope it was quick.
Please let me know what she wants for your guns?
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Marco1010
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Heck guys I'm not dead Yet !!!
You know how the saying goes... Cant live with them (without being in the Sh*t) Can't live without them (always saying you'll get in the sh*t for something). Eyebrows on the kids did grow back eventually, so all good now. Just snuck another new N0 5 rifle project home, without her indoors seeing it. |
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Black Prince
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Mine after decaping go into a plastic bucket and just cover them with house hold vinegar (while or brown it's the same oh! I keep the vinegar in the shed, just in case the little lady needs some, better taste a brassy twang to salads etc) for about a hour or two. Then drain the vinegar back into the container, place the clean cases in my dogs old stainless dinner bowl wipe excess of and place on top of the wood fire for an hour or so to dry out inside, summer time I put them in the sun for half a day or so, depends on the temp of the day. Aussie backyard mechanics. |
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