Tumbler with stainless steel media

[CommsNBombs]

Im still cleaing my brass like a cave man...I stick them in a mop bucket with hot water and Barkeepers Friend and hand agigtate it every 5 mins for an hour.

Run cold water through it and then stuff it in an Army green barracks (laundry) bag.

They come out nice with a dull shine - but cleans it up real nice.

I used to use Dawn and sun dry them on baking sheets - that took too long

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[Wardor]

I took the typical route into wet tumbling (Thumler's Model B kit).  It was great, but it did not do volume and it was way overpriced.  I ended up buying the MJR tumbler (the one the folks at STM tell you doesn't work) - it works perfectly.  I can run 6 quarts of brass (which is a lot, especially for 9mm) in each batch.  I believe I paid $250ish for the tumbler and another $100ish for all the stainless media (20#).  It's a big investment, but it does a great job and I do not deprime prior to cleaning, except for my match grade stuff.  Also, I stopped with the LSD (lemishine, dawn) solution and started using just 2 caps of the Hornady Ultrasonic Brass solution with water.  It works great for large batches, where the LSD was hard to fine tune for increased brass and decreased water (I got a lot of spots and clean but dull brass).

 

Below is some once fired, military auction brass I bought this last weekend.

 

Here is one of the two bins prior to any cleaning.  Pretty standard dirty range brass. (click images to enlarge)

 

Just another picture of the brass.

 

Half done (45 minutes of cleaning time, one load cycle per 6 quart tub)

 

Closer picture of the brass

 

All done (90 minutes of total cleaning time)