For you LemiShine users, what exact product do you use?

For you LemiShine users, what exact product do you use

  • Dishwashing Detergent

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • Dish Detergent Booster

    Votes: 22 53.7%
  • Concentrated Liquid Dish Soap

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • Dishwasher Cleaner

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other or I don't know

    Votes: 11 26.8%

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I can read the ingredients, and have for years advised people to buy bulk citric acid from Duda, (not the Ball pickling citric acid)

But to beat the price at your local Wal-Mart for lemishine, you would have to order the 5lb pack at Duda Deisel. So, most reloaders just buy it at their local Walmart, Target, or grocery store. Dont need a 5 lb bag when each load uses 1/4 tsp!
 
I use a 9mm case full of what they call the Original. Its a Super Consecrated Dishwasher Detergent in a 12 0z container. The correct amount depends on your water and trial and error rules. But I'll say, it takes less than you think.
 
I use original which was renamed booster. With my Thumblers I squirt Blue Dawn for "one thousand, two" count and use a .45 ACP case full of booster.
 
Here's my mix.
Stolen from someone here (don't remember who) :

Take a 1 gallon jug and add 1 Table Spoon of Soap and a max of 1/4 teaspoon of Lemi Shine.
Fill your containers with media, shells & juice.
Regardless of container size, you will have a correct mixture of cleaner.
Remember, more is NOT better, especially when it comes to the Lemi Shine.
 
I searched the internet and blatantly copied Big Dawg. Why re-event the wheel, said I.

Yeah, no telling how many people Big Dawg helped build their own. Great guy! Last time I checked he had a website and builds tumblers like yours and custom builds with dual drums. His prices are very reasonable for the work and materials needed.
 
Ill be honest. I dont measure. My methods are unconventional.
In the summer i take my deprimed brass. Throw it in a bucket with a bunch of hot water and some tide. I put the top on and bungee cord it on to my lawn tractor when i cut the grass (2 hours usually). Then i dump the water, rinse and put some lemishine and hot water in, shake it around let it sit while i drink a beer or 2. Rinse, dry and tumble in walnut with some brass cleaner polish goop in it. In the winter i dont mow so same process but without the mower ride. Dont know if the vibration helps, but i feel like im multitasking and reusing shaking viration that would normally be wasted, lol. I really dont see much difference winter and summer brass. I know it sounds like some redneck stuff , but hey i got my methods and you got yours.
 
Ill be honest. I dont measure. My methods are unconventional.
In the summer i take my deprimed brass. Throw it in a bucket with a bunch of hot water and some tide. I put the top on and bungee cord it on to my lawn tractor when i cut the grass (2 hours usually). Then i dump the water, rinse and put some lemishine and hot water in, shake it around let it sit while i drink a beer or 2. Rinse, dry and tumble in walnut with some brass cleaner polish goop in it. In the winter i dont mow so same process but without the mower ride. Dont know if the vibration helps, but i feel like im multitasking and reusing shaking viration that would normally be wasted, lol. I really dont see much difference winter and summer brass. I know it sounds like some redneck stuff , but hey i got my methods and you got yours.

LOL, I love it!:rofl:
 
That is what I bought, still haven't tried wet tumbling..... :)
I use it to chemically clean the brass. I dump deprimed brass in a container, add a tablespoon of citric acid and pour in enough boiling water to cover the brass. After five minutes, I pour off the hot water and rinse the brass under running hot water for a couple of minutes, drain and then into sunshine of oven to dry. At this point it is clean and looks OK. If I want them to be pretty, they get tumbled in walnut shell with some chrome polish.
 
I use a teaspoon full of Lemi-Shine booster in my ultra sonic cleaner with a quick of a squirt of Dawn as I can get. Usually just a short dribble.
After cleaning I throw them in a colander in the sink and rinse them off. Then they get dumped in the other sink with water and about a table spoon of baking soda to neutralize any acid that may be remaining.
Then I dry them under my inferred heater that is mounted on the wall above my work bench. Usually about 30 minutes, they are dry enough to use.
The inferred heater will tarnish them a little but I tumble them in my rotary tumbler after I load them anyways to get the lube off.
15 minutes in there and they look like factory brass. The extra weight of the bullet makes them shine up fast in the rotary.
 
I use a teaspoon full of Lemi-Shine booster in my ultra sonic cleaner with a quick of a squirt of Dawn as I can get. Usually just a short dribble.
After cleaning I throw them in a colander in the sink and rinse them off. Then they get dumped in the other sink with water and about a table spoon of baking soda to neutralize any acid that may be remaining.
Then I dry them under my inferred heater that is mounted on the wall above my work bench. Usually about 30 minutes, they are dry enough to use.
The inferred heater will tarnish them a little but I tumble them in my rotary tumbler after I load them anyways to get the lube off.
15 minutes in there and they look like factory brass. The extra weight of the bullet makes them shine up fast in the rotary.
You tumble loaded cartridges?
 
i tried dawn dish soap and citric acid from hobby lobby guess they use it to make bath bombs and it seemed to work good in the hf rock tumbler
 
I use this, a little dawn dishwashing soap, run for 30 to 45 minutes with no pins, pour out the water so I dont leave citric acid on my cases long term, and then I run 1 drop of dawn and some car wax to polish the cases and make them easier to run through my dies. Straight citric acid is cheaper than lemishine for sure and the cases turn out great as seen from the second pic beside 2 uncleaned cases.
 

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I use Citric Acid I found on Amazon, if you search for "milliard citric acid 5 pound" you'll find it for about 15$. 5 pounds will last you and a lot of friends a long time.

For my water conditions - well water, a bit on the hard side but I don't have a softener, 1 9mm case full of citric acid, 1 9mm case full of Dawn 3X dishwashing soap, and then 5 quarts of water, 5#s of SS pins, 10 #s of 9mm cases, 3 hours on a FART and they're very clean. I rinse 2x, then on the 3rd rinse add another 9mm case of citric acid and tumble 10 minutes more. I reserve that drain water and use it for the next batch of cases, adding in detergent.
In general, I try to add 10#s of cases but for 9mm have gone as high as 12#s with good luck. For .45s I cut that back to 8#s because when I did 10#s, they didn't get as clean and shiny. I shoot a lot better with shiny brass ones.
If you use Dawn, I've noticed they have 1X, 2X and at least 3X detergent. My bottle happens to be the 3X. Adjust your quantity to emulsify and suspend the oils and contaminants.
 
Rule3 asked:
And how much do you use per 1 gal of water?

I use approximately one rounded teaspoon per QUART.

This is a much higher concentration than most people use, but I only soak (not tumble) my brass in a detergent and weak acid solution for about fifteen minutes. After my brass is cleaned, processed and sized, it is then dry tumbled in walnut media to impart a shine. I don't rely on the Lemishine (or other weak acid) to put a shine on the brass; just to work with the detergent to remove dirt, powder residue and tarnish.
 
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