After tumbling cases - any more cleaning necessary?

[Osprey]

Hey guys,

My friends and I just went in on a Frankford Arsenal case tumbler which we're using with Lyman Tufnut media. After we tumbled the first batch everything looked fine except that there seemed to be a tiny bit of residual media on the insides of the casings (not large clumps or anything like that - more like a very fine layer of dust). Are we good to go? Are the any other measures you suggest we take to ensure that the insides of the casings are as clean as possible? Will media residue have any adverse affects on the powder? Thanks in advance guys.

-Hank

[TonyM]

Hey guys,

My friends and I just went in on a Frankford Arsenal case tumbler which we're using with Lyman Tufnut media. After we tumbled the first batch everything looked fine except that there seemed to be a tiny bit of residual media on the insides of the casings (not large clumps or anything like that - more like a very fine layer of dust). Are we good to go? Are the any other measures you suggest we take to ensure that the insides of the casings are as clean as possible? Will media residue have any adverse affects on the powder? Thanks in advance guys.

-Hank

I use a pipe cleaner and some Pledge furniture polish on every single case individually to remove all the dust.

j/k.

After you tumble them and use a media seperator to remove the media from the cases you should be good to go. The insides of the cases will have some powder residue inside that stains the brass, if it doesn't then the brass is either new, or you cleaned it WAY longer than needed. You can use a can of compressed air, or an air compressor if you want to blow out the cases.

[phish]

Did you pick up the tumbling package from Midway with the media separator? It takes a good number of cranks to get the media out, but pistol cases don't take as long as rifle cases.

I usually add about 2 capfuls of mineral spirits to the media before tumbling, it cuts down on the dust. I'm not a big fan of pre-treated media, since it's just another thing the cases are swimming around in.

[Osprey]

Thanks fpr the help guys

[Kiba]

After tumbling I like using Birchwood Casey chemical cleaner (or equivalent) to remove the powder residue inside the cases.

[scrat]

After tumbling i wipe them down on the outside. Thats it. size them charge them and shoot them. Never had a missfire due to tumbling media powder residue.

[thmpr]

Look for C.G's post in which a reloader proved a point to cleanliness does not affect accuracy. No cleaning was done. Just resize, primed and load. Very interesting experiment. I personally would not do it. But it was a good point of not being so paranoid of having stains on the cases.

[scrat]

Look for C.G's post in which a reloader proved a point to cleanliness does not affect accuracy. No cleaning was done. Just resize, primed and load. Very interesting experiment. I personally would not do it. But it was a good point of not being so paranoid of having stains on the cases.

True very true. i dont get to overbearing on cleaning. only thing that i clean the best is the primer pockets.