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  • Osideguy
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2013
    • 75

    Help with brass prep please

    Now I know this is knit picking but here goes. I tumble my 9mm brass for a few hours in lyman corn cob and I add a bit of Nu-finish. After a few hours the brass looks great. Nice and shiny. However after I handle the brass it tarnishes pretty bad by the next day. The brass that I haven't handle still looks great. I thought it was from my hands but my factory ammo that I handle doesn't do this. Is this from a combination of me handling AND the nu-finish? Is there a product instead of nu-finish that would help? I understand it's probably from my touching them but like I said my factory ammo doesn't do this. Any help is appreciated.
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    74c5
    Member
    • Sep 2011
    • 323

    5 bucks for a box of latex or nitrile gloves at OSH or ACE and you'll be fine. No idea what they put on factory loads but, they aren't purty forever.

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    • #3
      Timberwolf
      Calguns Addict
      • Oct 2004
      • 6275

      Brass tarnishes from the oil in your hands (remember smudged buckles and collar brass). Just use surgical gloves. I've often wondered if factory ammo doesn't have a thin coat of lacquer on them to keep them from tarnishing with time.
      I'm only smiling at you while you talk to me because it's hilarious that you really think I give a crap about you.

      As I've gotten older I thought I was gaining patience, then I realized I simply don't give a crap.

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      • #4
        thomashoward
        In Memoriam
        • Jan 2009
        • 1991

        eat potato chips while brass prepping?
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        • #5
          23's Dad
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2010
          • 502

          Is it too clean?

          It seems to me that Nu Finish basically leaves the brass "stripped". I use a pinch of Mother's Mag Wheel polish in my walnut. Maybe not the right stuff, but it works for me. The MSDS doesn't list any ammonia...

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          • #6
            Dutch3
            I need a LIFE!!
            • Oct 2010
            • 14181

            I use a little "TR-3 Resin Glaze" in my walnut.

            I think it is basically polishing compound + wax.
            Just taking up space in (what is no longer) the second-worst small town in California.

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            • #7
              Osideguy
              Junior Member
              • Apr 2013
              • 75

              Thanks guys and no on the potato chips. :-) I'll get some gloves. Also I considered using Flitz polish but can't find it locally.

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