Ultrasonic Case Cleaner Vs Tumbler

For that new brass shine i use the tumbler.

Ultrasonic case cleaner vs tumbler.

They re really more for shine. The ultrasonic cleaners are really good for cleaning the primer pocket flash hole and getting them clean not shiny. Ultrasonic cleaning 24 minutes. I made up some wire mesh baskets to put the brass in to allow for air movement.

5 6 16 for several years i ve been using dave maurer s 4mm x 5mm angle cut ceramic media to clean 40 65 45 70 bpcr cases in a tumbler s model b tumbler. I love my ultrasonic cleaner. Back to articles page. Case cleaning ultrasonic vs tumbler with ceramic media tumbler with stainless steel pins by wayne mclerran.

And at the finished 24 minutes you can see some ever more slight dirt discoloration in. Ultrasonic case cleaning 8 minutes hornady l lyman r a little dirtier in both but much more easily seen in the lyman since it s a lighter plastic color. Moreover it can clean my 16 inch ar upper easily. I reload for hunting as well as for benchrest and always hit my necks with some neverdull cloth and hit the primer pockets with a hand held tool to remove most of the fouling as these are the two worst areas before i clean the brass.

Some more at 16 minutes. An average ultrasonic cleaner 2500 ml capacity can clean up to 900 9 mm cases under 15 minutes. I run three 8 minute cleaning cycles on the ultrasonic cleaner rinse it off blow it off with shop air then stick it in the convection oven for 20 minutes at 212 degrees and i m good to go. You can get reloading faster when you use this machine for cleaning.

My ultrasonic cleaner is the harbor freight model. I own a 9 litre hornday ultrasonic cleaner and this thing cleans the parts i wouldn t have ever reached with some other method. I got it at harbors freight for 80. I have been using both lately 1 rcbs ultrasonic cleaner w rcbs solution and 2 tumbler w lyman corncob green media.

Rcbs ultrasonic case cleaner is one most suitable machine for cleaning the brass case at home without any problem.