Ok so I thought I would pull my vibratory cleaner out of the retirement corner and I got new walnut media and started cleaning cases and loading them.
I was doing some ladder testing in .308 and was basically "match" prepping my cases.
The cases spent 12 hours in the walnut media.
Blown off and brushed out annealed and then brushed again and lubed and full length sized.
Then the shocker I must clean the lube from inside the case necks.
The shocker part is the QTips were filthy after cleaning the case neck ID.
They got brushed again and then trimmed and then chamfered and deburred and brushed again and then another pass with Q-Tips.
Still slightly dirty.
I am going back to pin tumbling.
I pulled my expander from the sizer die and it is filthy from the dozen cases I sized.
Bullet seating forces were very even ..that is a plus.
Some say that carboned neck inside is actually beneficial and acts as a lube.
And may keep the bullets from "welding" themselves to the case.
I have not tested that.
I just do not like dirty necks I suppose..
They probably do not need to be that clean anyway.
I was doing some ladder testing in .308 and was basically "match" prepping my cases.
The cases spent 12 hours in the walnut media.
Blown off and brushed out annealed and then brushed again and lubed and full length sized.
Then the shocker I must clean the lube from inside the case necks.
The shocker part is the QTips were filthy after cleaning the case neck ID.
They got brushed again and then trimmed and then chamfered and deburred and brushed again and then another pass with Q-Tips.
Still slightly dirty.
I am going back to pin tumbling.
I pulled my expander from the sizer die and it is filthy from the dozen cases I sized.
Bullet seating forces were very even ..that is a plus.
Some say that carboned neck inside is actually beneficial and acts as a lube.
And may keep the bullets from "welding" themselves to the case.
I have not tested that.
I just do not like dirty necks I suppose..
They probably do not need to be that clean anyway.