technetium-99m
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The mixer comes with two arms inside to agitate the cement. I have one in there and my plan is to add smaller fins screwed to the inside to do a better job of moving the brass around.
I'll try a lower media/brass ratio. Everything I've seen on the internets has people using 1/1 so that's what I went with.
I'm just covering the brass/media right now with 1 inch of water, giving it a 1 second squirt of Dawn and a 45 case full of Lemishine. When I threw the cases into the oven for drying some developed small tarnish spots, so I may up that a bit or add some to the final rinse solution before taking the cases out. My concern with handgun brass is this. I'm not going to decap the things prior to cleaning, and after a few hours outside the cases were dry on the outside but still had moisture inside concentrated in the old spent primer. I'm worried that moisture here which isn't going to dry very well no matter what will contaminate my fresh primer and cause problems. So I'm baking them at 175 degrees or so for an hour to dry them.
You would think this would be terribly loud. It really isn't that loud. I'm running it in my side yard in a suburban neighborhood. From inside the house it isn't apparent that it's running. Standing next to it it isn't any louder or more annoying than the constant drone of your A/C.
I think I got everyone's question there.
The mixer comes with two arms inside to agitate the cement. I have one in there and my plan is to add smaller fins screwed to the inside to do a better job of moving the brass around.
I'll try a lower media/brass ratio. Everything I've seen on the internets has people using 1/1 so that's what I went with.
I'm just covering the brass/media right now with 1 inch of water, giving it a 1 second squirt of Dawn and a 45 case full of Lemishine. When I threw the cases into the oven for drying some developed small tarnish spots, so I may up that a bit or add some to the final rinse solution before taking the cases out. My concern with handgun brass is this. I'm not going to decap the things prior to cleaning, and after a few hours outside the cases were dry on the outside but still had moisture inside concentrated in the old spent primer. I'm worried that moisture here which isn't going to dry very well no matter what will contaminate my fresh primer and cause problems. So I'm baking them at 175 degrees or so for an hour to dry them.
You would think this would be terribly loud. It really isn't that loud. I'm running it in my side yard in a suburban neighborhood. From inside the house it isn't apparent that it's running. Standing next to it it isn't any louder or more annoying than the constant drone of your A/C.
I think I got everyone's question there.
