A little background:
I had thought about just tumbling off the lubricant after resizing, but then I would be left with the need to make sure the brass shavings from the trim, chamfer and debur operations were removed from the case which would necessitate adding a second tumbling operation or some form of vacuuming, agitation or mechanical removal.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
- I reload cartridges in small batches (never more than 200 at a time; mostly 50 or 100) on a single stage press.
- I prepare my brass through the priming stage, but may not load it until later. The reason is that I don't necessarily have the load I intend to use fully developed.
- Brass is decapped
- Brass is soaked (not tumbled) in a weak acid solution.
- Brass is air dried
- Brass is lubricated using Hornady Unique.
- After lubricating the brass, I put on latex examination gloves to handle the lubricated cases. This is not because of any concerns with mess, but the fact the cases are difficult to manipulate through the following processes without the additional friction provided by the latex gloves.
- Brass is resized.
- Brass is trimmed (if needed, but "need" is determined by putting each case in a Forster Classic Trimmer and seeing whether or not anything is trimmed off the case).
- Primer pocket crimp is reamed (if necessary, and it almost always is because I prefer to buy brass with crimped primers so I can be reasonably confident it is truly once-fired).
- Any brass that actually made contact with the trimmer's cutter is chamfered and deburred. I use a benchtop drill press with chamfer and debur tools for this.
- Brass is tumbled (wet or dry) to remove the resizing lubricant and any brass trimmings.
I had thought about just tumbling off the lubricant after resizing, but then I would be left with the need to make sure the brass shavings from the trim, chamfer and debur operations were removed from the case which would necessitate adding a second tumbling operation or some form of vacuuming, agitation or mechanical removal.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.