“I think I left them in the solution too long and too strong”.
Sky King, vinegar hovers around 5% acid, vinegar can be reduced by adding water, when using straight 5% +or- vinegar the reloader can experiment with the effect the acid has on a case, fill a small glass ‘whatever’ with vinegar then add as many cases as the reloader chooses, then check the time of exposure in hours and days.
Again, I choose 15 minutes maximum, if left in solution for 30 minutes the cases appear to look like I forgot them, try leaving the cases in the solution for 2 days.
I collect old tools, for most I apply the leaver policy, I leaver the way I founder, but there are times rust does not enhance to appearance so I use vinegar on cast iron and rusty tools, most tools and cast iron submerged in vinegar for 8 to 12 hours come out of the solution with no to little rust with no etching, In my opinion it beats grinding and wire brushing. I have used stronger solutions of acid, time is reduced to minutes and there is too great a chance something will go wrong. I know, there is a gel that can be used, I have time, and vinegar is not as expensive. And if I want to take more time, I can reduce the solution with water.
Back to methods? How well does other methods work without the acid solution? Again, I can clean cases in vinegar, the worst of cases, in 15 minutes or less, clean enough to load with out the ss pins and the expense of replacing all of my tumbling equipment.
Then there was ceramic, replace corm/walnut with ceramic, and that change smoked a few motors, I was not in that line, it reminded me of a book written about the adventures of an Old Sea Captain that died and went to Heaven.
F. Guffey
