maillemaker
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So I've heard some folks here say they don't clean their brass.
Last night, after wet-tumbling my brass with the primers still in, and discovering water and crud trapped under the primers, I decided to deprime all of my brass, about 1000 pieces, and then re-tumble.
I had another box of about 100 cases I forgot to tumble the first time.
So I pulled the charging and seating dies out of my 3-die Lee Pro1000 progressive reloader, leaving only the sizing/depriming die in place, and loaded her up.
The amount of force it took to run the machine through dirty brass felt almost twice as much as for clean brass. The difference was astonishing to me. It certainly felt like I was putting much more stress on the machine.
So I would say that right there is a good argument for cleaning brass.
Steve
Last night, after wet-tumbling my brass with the primers still in, and discovering water and crud trapped under the primers, I decided to deprime all of my brass, about 1000 pieces, and then re-tumble.
I had another box of about 100 cases I forgot to tumble the first time.
So I pulled the charging and seating dies out of my 3-die Lee Pro1000 progressive reloader, leaving only the sizing/depriming die in place, and loaded her up.
The amount of force it took to run the machine through dirty brass felt almost twice as much as for clean brass. The difference was astonishing to me. It certainly felt like I was putting much more stress on the machine.
So I would say that right there is a good argument for cleaning brass.
Steve