(Only) Lemoshine Brass Cleaning Method Results

[GlockSpock]

So, hot water and Lemoshine for about 24 hours. Rinsed very well and dried by placing on top of the dishwasher. Some of the brass has a pink stain/corrosion. Is this acceptable and will it reload ok? Really just want a stainless tumbling setup but that is a few months away. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[quickbiscuit]

I read just last night regarding wet tumbling with stainless pins that it is not a good idea to let the brass sit in the solution long after tumbling because the Lemi-shine can begin to degrade the brass. I'm not sure that your current method is the best approach, but I can understand needing to hold off on a rotary tumbler setup. It does require a big investment initially.

[Patton]

I have done the lemishine and it does fine, I discovered that Koolaid mix(no sugar) with water and hand shaken works even better. I actually have a dry tumbler but for less than 200 cases it isn't worth messing with.

[Guest BCR#1]

Now put those puppies in a tumbler with treated walnut media for a few hours and see what happens.

 

Bill

 

 

 

 

 

So, hot water and Lemoshine for about 24 hours. Rinsed very well and dried by placing on top of the dishwasher. Some of the brass has a pink stain/corrosion. Is this acceptable and will it reload ok? Really just want a stainless tumbling setup but that is a few months away. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Guest SavageOne]

I use the LSD process to clean up range brass before tumbling to keep my media clean. The pink tint you see is the zink leaching out of the cases. I only leave my cases in the solution 20 minutes or so. At that point my cases are about as clean as they will be using this process. I'm not sure if the cases are degraded by a 24 hr soak, but certainally see no advantage in it. I rinse and dry the cases before tumbling in walnut/corn media treated with a little liquid car wax and mineral spirits. The cases come out of the media with a high shine, and a luburication film that makes them run through the 650 smoothly.

[GlockSpock]

So I wonder if that means I should use or trash them? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Tempest455]

Hot water, Lemishine, Stainless tumble for 45. I use VERY little of it. Enough to just cover the tip of a screwdriver.

 

Blow w/ compressed air and done.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Your brass is fine. I have left cases in Lemishine for a few days before. Some came out pink but they are still loading and shooting fine.

It would take a lot more time and a lot more Lemishine to harm the cases.

[owejia]

I use citric acid which is what is in koolaid also and probably in lemonshine. About 30 min. soak in the soap/citric acid solution ocassionally shaking the brass around and drain, rinse in clean water with a small amount of baking soda will neturalize the citric acid. Polish in walnut media and it looks like new. I always deprime off the press and wash my brass to keep dirt out of my sizing dies.

[Ron Padilla]

for what it is worth, I have read that if it is not rinsed well the brass will tarnish that is what most likely you are seeing, I mentioned in another thread that I got in to stainless wet tumbling on the cheap with a harbor freight tumbler that was on sale along with a 20%off coupon. the only thing I wish I would have done is bought the double drum tumbler, I use about half of the stainless media in the 1 tub and it will fit 50 rounds of 223 and have room left, and as one other person mentioned it was about a screw driver amount of the lemonshine and then rinsed well after the use. I was very impressed with outcome of the brass the primer pockets were very clean as well as the interior of the brass.

[Guest SavageOne]

If it were my brass I'd load and shoot it till it failed or lost. I don't think it's degraded bad enough to toss it. Just not necessary to soak it that long.