Wiping cases before Tumbling

[sam700]

Just curious if everyone wipes the exterior of their cases down to remove grit before tumbling them. I was under the understanding that this would help the life of you’re dies, but I was wondering how big of a difference it makes. I would think that you would only have to wipe them down after the tumbling, but the Lyman manual says otherwise. How about with carbide dies?

 

[ocabj]

The whole point of tumbling is to clean the cases. Wiping the cases to clean them before tumbling them to clean them is a bit moot.

 

[Walkalong]

Knock off loose dirt, if there is any.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Nope...I just make sure there is no dirt or other material inside the case...

 

[actionflies]

I recently tumble some range brass laying on gravel after rain and it clean up just find. Although the media was dirty anyway and I replaced it after that batch.

 

[rcmodel]

Dump the sand and .22 RF cases out, kill the Spiders, and throw them in the tumbler.


rcmodel

 

[The Bushmaster]

L O L rcmodel...That's prettymuch how it's done...L O L I hate spiders