bluetopper
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Will stainless pins .290” long shake out of 223 brass?
Pins come out of 223 brass?
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Jonny2guns
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Yes, they come out. I run mine through a Frankford media separater.
FROGO207
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I use a Dillon media seperator and fill the tub full of water after wet cleaning with SS pins. I SLOWLY rotate the basket in the water filled media tub. Around and around mixed with back and forth rotation for a couple minutes at minimum. Change the water and do it again. It's a combo rinse and pin removal step. In 8 years I have never found left behind pins in my brass after its done drying. YMMV
FROGO207
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I got my pins from Pellets LLC years ago before they stopped selling them to reloaders in 5 LB bags. I will find the size as mine don't tend to stick in flash holes for me.
Hugger-4641
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Mine don't stick in flash holes, but they can fill the case and jam up inside. I tap each case against athe bottom of a small stainless bowl to catch them .
JohnMc
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As FROGO207 said, do it underwater. Then they don't shake out as much as slide out. The media tumbler makes it super easy, mine happens to be Frankford Arsenal, but I'm sure it doesn't matter.
I did have one get stuck in a primer pocket once, it was shorter than standard, its length was about the same as the pocket internal diameter. I had to get needle nose pliers to get it out. That's the only SS pin I've tossed on purpose.
I did have one get stuck in a primer pocket once, it was shorter than standard, its length was about the same as the pocket internal diameter. I had to get needle nose pliers to get it out. That's the only SS pin I've tossed on purpose.
lightman
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I don't remember ever having a pin stuck in a 223 case but I would have to measure my pins to be of any help. I'll try to do that after the Razorbacks play this afternoon.
Soap breaks surface tension. It’s not causing pins to stick.
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Not at my house, soap makes it stick and water lets it go.
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thump_rrr
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I use the RCBS media separator filled with water.
The RCBS has a cover so the water and pins don't go flying.
The RCBS has a cover so the water and pins don't go flying.
Blue68f100
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I use the media separator with good results. Early on I had a few pins get stuck in the neck. These pins were shorter than they should have been so I tossed them in the trash and no more problems. I've had 1 pin stick in the primer pocket, it also was an odd length, so it got canned. No more problem since.
lightman
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I just measured mine and they average .2555 long and .048 in diameter. They don't get stuck in 223 brass but will get stuck in the neck of 17 caliber stuff.
I didn't like my RCBS media separator. It had a groove at each end that would trap my pins.
JohnMc
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I separate mine in the dirty, soapy water straight from tumbling and it works just fine.Not at my house, soap makes it stick and water lets it go.
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It's called adhesion when two things stick through a third thing, such as pin-water-case. Water isn't a great adhesive, so putting things stuck with water in water breaks what little adhesive tension there is, I've never found it to matter if it's soapy or not.
Soap does change the surface tension of water; that's why bubbles are possible (IIRC, water without soap has too much surface tension and the soap relaxes it) and drowning water striders with soap works, though they can clean themselves off and fly away. Water boatman and backswimmers trap an air bubble held by surface tension for diving or something like that. I put ~1/4 cup of Dawn per 5,000 gallons in my pool and they either fly away or drown. It's not enough to make soap bubbles, but enough to burst their bubbles, to turn a phrase.
It's been my observation that damp or wet pins stick to each other before and after they're rinsed thoroughly with clean water.
JohnMc
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The Frankford Arsenal one has a cover, too. The cover is particularly useful for rinsing on its own, as it has a very fine mesh screen in the center. It isn't hinged, just flip it over and pour the stuff in, the water drains right out.
I think most of them do have covers; as covers keep dust out of your face if separating dry media as well, which, as Martha Stewart says, "is a good thing."
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