[North Bender]

I heard about LemiShine from some friends. It's described as: "Lemi Shine® is made with real fruit acids, natural citrus oils, and Fragrance. NO PHOSPHATES. It is an environmentally safe product."

Maybe ascorbic acid or lemon juice would do the same? I mix it with a couple drops of drop of laundry soap and shake it periodically for a couple hours and rinse it off. I'm just testifying that this stuff cleans S&B brass so that I don't need to polish the cases. The photo is a bit dark but the cases are Clean. At the very least some sort of treatment like this saves your polishing media.

 

[frogger2662]

How much LemiShine to how much soap?

 

[North Bender]

I don't measure the amounts frogger. Maybe a couple tablespoons of Lemi Shine to a quart of warm water and a teaspoon of soap.

 

[Chris J]

Don't know about cleaning brass, but anyone with a dishwasher should have LemiShine in the pantry.

 

[Jonnin]

Ive seen this recommended for brass for some time, it is apparently very good for the job if you do not mind a wet cleaning setup.

 

[SlimTim]

Want it to shine INSIDE and out? Check out stainless media, used with a lapidary tumbler. It's freakin' awesome how bright it comes out after only an hour or two, and you only need a half-teaspoon of the stuff. Even the primer pockets look like new.

SlimTim

 

[North Bender]

You made me look that up ST. So I would need to buy a watertight rotary tumbler (~ $180 or find one used) and stainless media (5 lbs for ~ $50). Ouch! But I want this stuff now. Maybe Santa or the Easter Bunny or some other mystical being will help me out.

 

[Spike]

Saw your picture, N'Bender, & realized, Hey, I've got some of that stuff! And here I'll probably be a fledgling home-roller by years end. Fortuitous.

Just got it for the dish washer awhile back cuz, well... seemed like a good idear at the time. I dump some in with the Electrosol occasionally to keep the dishwasher... however it keeps it. About half left.

So, you just shake it in a Mason jar with soap & water for awhile? Sounds almost simple enough for me to do.

-S

 

[Simson-Suhl]

Most Blackpowder Cartridge Silhouette Riflemen use Thumler's Tumbler or a similar brand with water, a dash of dish soap, one level teaspoon of Cream of Tarter and Ceramic Tumbling Media which is availible in three different sizes. Cleans both the outside and inside of the case including the primer pocket.
Shooter 2 Ceramic Tumbling Media, Dave Maurer 9002 Norris RD Dewuitt, MI 48820, (517) 699 9801, [email protected]

 

[surfzombie]

I bought some of this stuff a few months ago for that express puepose. I guess I read the same or similar article. Thanks for the reminder to give it a try. I am getting to the point I need to start cleaning and reloading some of my brass.

 

[pilot1950]

Where would one typically find this item? Is this a hardware store item (Ace) or more of a grocery store cleaning / laundry supply isle item? I just don't recall ever seeing that name.

 

[Simson-Suhl]

I had the same question myself. Google lists the food stores in my area that carry the product and the miles to each from my home.

 

[North Bender]

I buy it locally at a Target store. It's on the shelf with "water treatment products".

 

[Chris J]

Ace Hardware usually carries Lemishine. You can also find it at many appliance stores or places that carry appliance parts, and some supermarkets. It doesn't have much shelf-presence (may be buried amongst unrelated products) but isn't really hard to get.

 

[pilot1950]

Thanks guys. Just found it at my local grocery, in the dish / dishwasher detergent section.

 

[SlimTim]

Bender, check out a Lortone Model QT-12 or QT-66, as well as a Thumler's Tumbler Model B. I can likely find you a used one for a decent price somewhere in the great northwet if you give me a week or three. Also there's an outfit that was selling the stainless media for $5/lb + $5 to ship, but I heard they went up to $6/lb. I can find them for you too if desired.

Lemishine is carried in most wallyworlds with the dish washin' liquids.

SlimTim

 

[Tom Norton]

harbor freight has a liquid capable tumbler, smaller than the thurman but has 2 containers. was around 50$

 

[kywoodwrkrII]

I bought a Thumlers Tumbler for a specific job.
I had upward of 10k bullets in boxes which had been sprayed with water and exposed to intense smoke.
Even sealed boxes were 'soiled'.
The stainless process is an exceptional cleaner for this purpose.
I then polish the bullets in a Lyman 2500 with fine corn cob using an automotive cleaner as additive.
Quite frankly, they look better than the factory delivered bullets.
I'm very up on the stainless media for this, not so much for brass cleaning.
You are extremely limited, in my humble opinion, in the amount of brass you can add to the media, water, soap and lemon juice.
If I have brass to clean, it is usually in the thousands. Doing 2-300 pistol at a time is entirely to slow. 100 or so rifle is impossible.
Separating the media and cases is exasperating. (I use a magnet with the bullets.)
There are many citric acid 'how-tos' via googling, castboolits has a sticky even.
FWIW and YMMV.