Brass tumbler additives?

[mapper]

Most of the time I'll admit to being lazy while tumbling. By that I mean putting the brass in the tumbler with walnut screwing the lid on it, turning it on and walking away. If the media is still sharp I'll come back sooner, if not I'll come back later.

Now if I wasn't as lazy, I'd déprime the brass and wet tumble with stainless pins, lemishine and dawn. I've done it before and it does a great job and cleans the primer pockets great.
Seperating the pins from the brass not a issue, with a separator with a top on it, I use it like a salad spinner.., the blue spinner worked good In Low gear with the bottom in the water as well. but it was the drying of the brass that caused me to abandon it. I put in towels, or hung up in mesh bags, but did not put in trays or a dehydrator.

But for rifle brass that's been de primed, yes its a better cleaning method.

But that said, I'll still used walnut tumbled brass with primers intact and brush out the primer pockets as part of brass prep as I'm handling brass anyway.



But everyone has their own methods that work for them, and that's a good thing.
I may revisit the swim team again for déprimed rifle brass.