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Don,
When I'm handling brass and worried about the fingerprints I typically us the nitrile gloves from Harbor Freight. I don't typically use them when doing the actual loading but only when dumping the tumbler for longer term storage. I tumble out on the deck or my bud's garage. Never had a lot of problems as long as I was loading in a controlled environment. Working in the heat and I'd need to load with the gloves on to keep from leaving brown fingerprints.
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For now I'll try to come up with a way to grind this Lyman crap up smaller.
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GasGuzzler wrote:For now I'll try to come up with a way to grind this Lyman crap up smaller.
Too fluffy and too much effort to too little gain IMO.
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donhuff wrote:snip
I am putting a squirt of Dawn 2x, and a big shot of the Lemishine, probably a table spoon or more. I have no problem with the cleaning part. It is doing great. I am learning how long to tumble different amounts of brass to get the same amount of clean. I also have some more pins on the way as I have learned that when doing a small batch say 100-150 9mms, it takes maybe 1 1/2 hrs. But on 400, 38 specials, it took 3-4 hours to get them to the same level of clean. So I'm thinking more pins should help with the bigger batches, and wont hurt on the smaller ones.
Not sure about the more pins would like to hear how that goes. According to "experts" elsewhere it only take a pinch of the Lemishine. I read it on the internet it must be true :lol: . I have a set of measuring spoons labled with sizes like pinch, smidgen etc. I use the pinch one for my tumbler. Found that much more gave the brass a color cast.

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Too much citric acid makes the brass pink. Offset with baking soda if needed.
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I don't measure hardly anything. I just turn the container up and dump a good bit out.

I'm very color blind so if it has a color cast, I wouldn't know it.

Whats wrong with PINK brass? ;)
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Nothing :lol:

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The wife sez they are Purdy
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My other brass makes fun of it :lol:

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Scares me like nearly anything else pink.
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