I am wondering if you do anything after Sonic Cleaning, such as brush-out the inside/neck, or do you call your case ready to load?

I use my Hornady Sonic 2L machine (with their solution as well) rinse off each case with Tap and then Distilled Water and dry in oven.

What do you fellas do?

Here is my cleaning routine, I have an Branson industrial ultrasonic cleaner and a Thumbles Tumbler.

1) Ultrasonic with Vinegar/Distilled Water
2) Ultrasonic with Baking Soda/Distilled Water
3) Ultrasonic with Distilled Water (Rinse)
4) Put in Dehydrator (Dry)
5) Tumble with Treated Walnutshell media (Final Polish)

This process gets the cases really clean, as a matter of fact they look brand new inside and out. It seems a little over the top but I do it while I am working on other things in the garage and I have discovered several cases that were starting to split in the neck that I could not see before the cleaning (carbon covering). So I am an advocate of a good clean of cases.

That is my routine...

Brad,
You might investigate citric acid in place of the vinegar. All the vinegar cleaned cases I have ever had eventually turned brown no matter how much I rinsed them. That includes rinsing in copious amounts of boiling water.

My cleaning routine began long before ultrasonic cleaners were in common use.

I guess I have 2 routines.
For large lots of cruddy range pickups loaded with dirt and mud I wash in a dish soap solution and inspect every case. If necessary I may resort to a bore brush or old tooth brush.
After that they are treated like my good brass.

I try to keep my good brass clean.
I knock out the primers and clean the primer pockets. I do the wash routine and rinse with hot water. Then I rinse in isopropyl alcohol to absorb the water. The cases will dry in about 5 mins after the IPA rinse.
The cases are then sized and I know my dies do not get scratched.
I use the IPA again to remove the lube. The resulting cases are very clean. They are bagged and boxed for later use when I am ready to load.

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Originally posted by Leopardtrack:
I am wondering if you do anything after Sonic Cleaning, such as brush-out the inside/neck, or do you call your case ready to load?

I use my Hornady Sonic 2L machine (with their solution as well) rinse off each case with Tap and then Distilled Water and dry in oven.

What do you fellas do?

Rinse in distilled water.

In the next months I will be leaving the ultra sonic cleaner in the past.

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
In the next months I will be leaving the ultra sonic cleaner in the past.

Ted, care to elaborate on your reasons?

I'm switching to stainless pins and a rotary

All the time and money spent on a activity that only requires the outside of the case to wiped off.
For US cleaning, first deprime. Next, even straight water will clean--it just takes longer.
Vinegar and other strong acids can leach zinc out of the cases. I find simply adding a squirt of Dawn is all that is needed. Hot water works faster than cold. Deaerated water works better than straight tap water--if you have a degassing option (or run the US for five minutes with nothing in it).
After cleaning, rinse in water (distilled if water spots bother you, but I haven't seen any water spots on my cases).
Allow to dry and start to load.
If you want shine, then you need to tumble in 20/40 corn for 30 minutes or go invest in SS pins.
A simple water rinse is all that is needed, even if citric acid is used. Just get a "tub" of water and dip the basket of case in and out of the water a few times.

My routine is-
Use steaming hot tap water. Tsp. of Lemi Shine, drop or two of Dawn liquid soap.
Dump in cases. cycle 3 times at 480 seconds I do not use the rubber mat in the cleaner.

Remove cases with strainer. Rinse under tap in pan. blot dry on towel. Put cases on a parchment lined/paper towel lined, baking pan, place in convection oven at 170 F. cases will dry in just a few minutes. I don't do anything else.