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Been a while..
May 10th, 2026 at 8:04pm
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I was going through a box and came across some dirty brass-it had been loaded with black powder. The brass was  stained, so I decided to dig out the tumbler and clean it up.

I haven't did much tumbling lately.  I have steel pins and tumbling solution.  Put every thing in the tumbler barrel, added some water and turned it on for 2 hours. 

Now I have 20 rounds of black shiney brass.

Obviously I did something wrong.  Any ideas on what I did wrong and how  I correct it?

  
Douglas, Ret.
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Reply #1 - May 10th, 2026 at 11:14pm
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I use a teasoon of Lemishine and a squirt of soap.  I'll bet that cleans them up so they look new.
  
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Nothing wrong with black and shiny. If you want it to look new, do as gunmaker suggests. You may need to let it tumble a bit longer than two hours though.
  
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The advice above about using Lemishine(or citric acid) and a squirt of soap is solid.  However, if you get black shiny cases and don’t want to wet tumble them again…   An hour or two with some walnut shell in a vibratory tumbler will make them shiny and brass colored.
  
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Reply #4 - Today at 9:12am
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GunBum wrote yesterday at 6:00pm:
The advice above about using Lemishine(or citric acid) and a squirt of soap is solid.  However, if you get black shiny cases and don’t want to wet tumble them again…   An hour or two with some walnut shell in a vibratory tumbler will make them shiny and brass colored.


Click! Light just went on. I am helping the Grandson dispose of his other Grandfathers estate (reloading stuff)-he was a 3 gun shooter.  There is a vibratory tumbler that hasn't sold yet. I think I will claim it.

Thanks Gentlemen.
  
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