salemsm Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Some of my newbie questions that hopefully the learned reloading community can help me with. Are some spent primers "cleaner" than others? What is the vote on de-prime first then clean? Does media get stuck? Saw a U-Tube video of a guy using a screwdriver to clean. Comments? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpiYtjo7pM%22%5dwww.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpiYtjo7pM What about primer pocket cleaners (hand-held Lee, wire brush drill “bit”)? How good do they work and how long do they last? I am hoping I can eliminate some steps and clean spent/de-primed cases but want to get everyone’s thoughts on this first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyOne Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Pistols rounds don't bother cleaning. Tumble and reload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 The relatively new non toxic primers seem to leave the primer pockets a lot cleaner. Worst seem to be WW factory ammo, although, using WW primers to reload don't seem to be as dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppa Bear Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 If it is for pistol you tumble and then reload. For precision rifle where you are trying to make a 1" group at 1,000 yards you clean, measure, and perform all functions to the closest 1/1,000,000th of a degree. We all fall in middle of those two extremes at some point. I am much more careful at how I reload my hunting rounds than I am at reloading my USPSA loads, but I do not engage targets at 400 yards while shooting USPSA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koppi Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 How much time do you have? If you like to have clean primer holes you can buy the really small corncob add Dillion case prep and get them clean. But, I would run them though the de-caper again. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirpy Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Any media that gets stuck in the flash hole gets punched out with the primer after tumbling. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Or it can look like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tunaman Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 That's some purty brass!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powder Finger Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 for rifle use this: http://www.sinclairintl.com/reloading-equipment/case-preparation/primer-pocket-tools/handles/sinclair-primer-pocket-uniformers-prod34720.aspx the brush deals no work so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofty Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 For hand gun use.....did try cleaning hole......I am a pensioner so I do have the time... however it made no difference to the ammo ....or accuracy....so use the time to load more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twoyellowlabs Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 I think RCBS has a nice primer cleaner. Basically several size brushes that rotate on a small platform. I'm with the others. Pistol don't bother. There are small hand held cheap tools out there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckols Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Steve RAMighty pretty brass. UltraSonic cleaned or with media? Thanks Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckols Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I ran into some really dirty, cruddy Military Range 9mm so I cleaned and deprimed it and found it OK on the looks inside and out side but many half the primer pockets ( were pretty dirty at the primer set surface. I used a screwdriver tip that was slightly undersized to the pocket and on a Porter Cable hand power driver just a quick light insert of the driver nose, touch the trigger for a split second and voila-beautifully clean primer pockets. In retrospect I ask was it worth the effort? I suppose for rifle ammo but this was 9mm hand gun brass. Anyway, its a possible way to easily and quickly clean primer pockets. With a light touch and a power screw driver it seems an easy task. Once I got the rhythm it was ~20 pockets a minute. Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Deprimed, stainless pinned, tumbled in fine walnut hull (fine grade doesn't stick in primer hole) with Nu-Finish car polish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckols Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Thanks. Great formula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagonburner Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Pistols just shoot em then shoot em some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd6x Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 For pistol, just tumble with spent primers still in (to keep the media out of the primer pocket) and reload. For rifle, if you're using military brass that has to be swaged, you can tumble, deprime, swage, tumble again, and the decapping pin will knock out any media stuck in the primer pocket...but that's a pain, and overkill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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