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Best way to remove old "sticky" case lube
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Found some old cases in a box and resized them but they had been previously sprayed with case lube and are still gummy after resizing.

What's the way to get the case lube off?

Hot soapy water then tumble in the clothes dryer?


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Quickest and best is acetone or lacquer thinner. Slow and not as good; soapy water.
 
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Put them in a rotary tumbler with stainless pins and some soap and water. Turn it on for 2 hours and walk away.


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I use 90 some percent alcohol, electrical contact cleaner and brake cleaner for messy cleaning. Prefer the alcohol, can't help thinking that something that makes your fingers tingle might not be exactly great for you.
 
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I use 90 some percent alcohol, electrical contact cleaner and brake cleaner for messy cleaning. Prefer the alcohol, can't help thinking that something that makes your fingers tingle might not be exactly great for you.

Gin or vodka?


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Try Hoppes #9

We use it to remove all sorts of sticky things.


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I just throw the brass in the vibratory tumbler with walnut shell media and come back in an hour or so.

At some point the media gets loaded with gunk and no longer sharp on the edges so gets rotated out.

Nonetheless, the stuff lasts longer than I should expect given what I through at it!
 
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That contaminates your media; I do not do that and i do not want to wait two hours.
For light grease removal from brass I use 409. If it was dried on like yours, then I would use acetone.
I remove a lot of really dried and caked on grease from WW2 jeep parts; I usually use gasoline. Tried all the environmentally friendly lemon juice solvents in my degreaser; they don't work. No warnings please. Heard them all.
 
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Individually twisting them in your hand with a towel. I do still occasionally do this but it sucks. When I had a wet tumbler, I would size dirty (brushing the necks out before sizing) and just tumble them to cleaner than factory new. I haven't worn out a set of dies yet and it beats the hell out of tumbling, sizing, then cleaning lube off.
Instead you just size, wet tumble, and pull out brass that looks better than factory new. This process does add a slight lip on your case neck that you can take a deburing tool to the same as after you trim.

washing in the sink with soaps gets most of the excess off but still doesn't seem to get that last thin film off.
 
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I'd don nitrile gloves and soak them with carb cleaner or acetone. Then I'd rub the wet cases with paper towels if the soaking didn't dissolve all the crap away. I'd do it in a well ventilated space.
 
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I used gasoline to remove imperial sizing wax. Seemed to work pretty good. I let it dry in the sun.
 
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Lighter fluid on a rag.
 
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