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Sonic Cleaner...what detergent do you all use??
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I just ordered a Frankfort Arsenal sonic cleaner. The commercial detergent is expensive and I would have to order it online so I am wondering if you fellas use any other detergent or home brew instead of it to clean your brass??
 
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A teaspoon of Lem i Shine and a drop of Dawn dish soap. I use hot tap water in my cleaner. 3- 480 sec cycles usually cleans my brass completely!


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I bought a jug of the Frankford Arsenal sonic cleaner....waisted $$$$$

All of the home brews out clean it


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I originally tried Lemishine and Simple Green, then Lemishine and dishsoap, now I use a 50% solution of vinegar and water with dish soap. I neutralize it with baking soda in water or I get nasty looking patina.

Took this guy's process as my own:
http://www.6mmbr.com/ultrasonic.html

All of the above will clean the hell out of gun parts too. That said, if they are not stainless, hard chrome, bake on coat, etc....they will come out in the white.
 
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We got a large sonic cleaner for cleaning gun parts and pistols.

We fill the tank with water, and place whatever we want to clean in a plastic bag with diesel.

Works like a charm.


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The four in the middle are clean the ones on both sides are "before" the sonic cleaner.


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Originally posted by Leopardtrack:
I just ordered a Frankfort Arsenal sonic cleaner. The commercial detergent is expensive and I would have to order it online so I am wondering if you fellas use any other detergent or home brew instead of it to clean your brass??


I have a similar unit.
Tried the Hornady stuff, Simple Green, and Lem i Shine. All seem to work. Don't use the heater, and be careful with nickle plated brass (it can discolor).

Been experimenting some with the unit. Still not sure I will use it on every reloading cycle, but if you use a standard polisher (vibrating) followed by depriming, an ultrasonic cleaner does polish up the primer pockets.
 
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I have a small but industrial-strength ultrasonic cleaner and I use about two teaspoons of citric acid per gallon and a very small amount of detergent (I use about 4 mL of straight Tergitol NP-9 surfactant per gallon but hand dishwashing soap will probably work OK too).

I run them for about six minutes with the bath at 50 Celsius or about 120 Fahrenheit. Then I triple-rinse them and dry in a convection oven for at least 30 minutes at 225 F.

They do get real clean and the cleaning solution is very inexpensive.
 
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