Wet Cleaning

Lemi Shine has been questioned as a cleaning agent for brass because, in some circumstances, it seems to turn the brass pink.

Revised 03/17/2014

Wet cleaning with stainless steel media is better than the dry, vibratory method and takes no additional time – when adjusted for my needs. Obviously, your needs may be different but the approach I took should work for you, too.

Here is a sampling from the first batch, all “many times fired” shells, tumbled according to the vendor’s recipe.

Time to do some planning.

“LSD” = Lemi-Shine and Detergent, a method of cleaning ammunition brass for reloading.

After cleaning, some have suggested using the family oven but others have objected it may shorten the lifetime of the brass.

Sunny is a good protector for the drying brass but Norman, not seen here, is smaller, feisty, and the dominant of the pair. He marks anything of uncertain ownership. Accordingly, this brass went up on the table and out of his “range” immediately after this picture was taken.

There are two general processes to cleaning brass, the wet and the dry methods.