Trying to streamline my .223 process here since I work in bulk. Currently, I --
1) Decap w/ Lee universal decapper
2) Swage on the SS600 as necessary
3) Wet tumble
4) Resize
5) Trim/chamfer/deburr
6) Either wet tumble again, or dry tumble to remove case lube
Is there a quick and dirty method to clean the once fired stuff enough to not mess up my sizing die? Would just hosing them off be enough? I don't want to wet tumble them with primers in because I've read there's a risk of the primer anvil and cup separating and the cup remaining in the primer pocket when decapped.
I thought about dry tumbling first, and sizing after but in the past when I've done this, I wind up with some of the media that got trapped in a case getting covered in case lube and lodged up inside the sizing die, and I wind up having to clean the sizing die out after a couple hundred rounds. Last time I did this I didn't have a rotary separator (I do now), so I was dumping the media out of each case by hand. I would imagine the rotary separator would leave even more media though, and exacerbate the issue, or do I have that backwards? I think I'll just try it with a few hundred rounds to see.
1) Decap w/ Lee universal decapper
2) Swage on the SS600 as necessary
3) Wet tumble
4) Resize
5) Trim/chamfer/deburr
6) Either wet tumble again, or dry tumble to remove case lube
Is there a quick and dirty method to clean the once fired stuff enough to not mess up my sizing die? Would just hosing them off be enough? I don't want to wet tumble them with primers in because I've read there's a risk of the primer anvil and cup separating and the cup remaining in the primer pocket when decapped.
I thought about dry tumbling first, and sizing after but in the past when I've done this, I wind up with some of the media that got trapped in a case getting covered in case lube and lodged up inside the sizing die, and I wind up having to clean the sizing die out after a couple hundred rounds. Last time I did this I didn't have a rotary separator (I do now), so I was dumping the media out of each case by hand. I would imagine the rotary separator would leave even more media though, and exacerbate the issue, or do I have that backwards? I think I'll just try it with a few hundred rounds to see.