Cleaning old powder residue

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A friend gave me two old priming measures which were all black and gooked-up. I took them apart and cleaned them as best I could with Butch's Bore Shine (BP) and Brasso, but the residue on the smallet parts (the plungers) just won't come off :surrender: . Any ideas?

 

[ol vern]

toss them in a can and cover them with windex
shake the can from time to time in a few days they should be clean

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Find a friend who reloads center fire ammo and ask him /her if they'll drop them into the vibrating brass cleaning media. This does all of the work for you :winking: . My brother cleans tens of thousands of brass .40's and .45's every year. Never uses any liquid cleaners at all...just the small amount of liquid he puts in the media before he walks away from the machine for several hours.

Hope this helps . All the best, Dave

 

[Heinrich]

I clean those type of things with a steam cleaner. Like the type that they sell on home shopping.

Works a charm.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Did'ja try muriatic acid?

 

[bucktales]

Brake cleaner might also work if the measure is all metal.

 

[roundball]

A friend gave me two old priming measures which were all black and gooked-up. I took them apart and cleaned them as best I could with Butch's Bore Shine (BP) and Brasso, but the residue on the smallet parts (the plungers) just won't come off :surrender: . Any ideas?

When I buy used Hawkens with heavily tarnished brass, I stop at the grocery store and buy a quart or two of White Distilled Vinegar...cheap stuff about .99cents a quart or something.

Fill up a plastic bowl or tupperware thing deep enough to submerge the brass parts in for a couple days...it'll dissolve the old brass stuff off, and then 30 seconds with a dab of brasso on a cloth and the brass looks like brand new again.