Cleaning primer pocket help!?!?

[SCKY Shooter]

I just cleaned 200 primer pockets using a RCBS prep mate with the spinning wire brush. Both hands are cramping and pockets are marginal at best.

If I sonic clean will that get the grime out of the primer pockets without the wire brush??? There has to b a better way to clean a primer pocket!

Thanks guys

 

[sabrecross]

Get the drill attachment and it makes it super quick. Sonic cleaning helps but it doesn't get the gunk totally out.

 

[djarecke]

Don't bother cleaning them at all. I shot around 10,000 reloaded rounds last year and never cleaned a single one.

 

[Spblademaker]

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

 

[Mike Casselton]

I stopped cleaning the damn things 15yrs ago

 

[powerspc]

Clean or not clean, that’s up to you. I clean them, but mostly because I’m anal about seating the primers at the same depth which I figure you’re not doing if the pocket is full of bits of carbon. Actually I’m anal about everything in the reloading process. But I digress, I use the Hornady Case Prep Trio with the pocket cleaner attachment. Easy-peasy.

 

[Darkside-Six]

Sonic cleaning doesn’t do that good of a job and unless you have an industrial sized cleaner you can only do a handful at a time. You can wet tumble with steel media and that will get them spotless but as many said above, it doesn’t make a bit of difference on your loads.

 

[wvlapua]

Primer pocket uniformer. Works great.

 

[918v]

Stainless tumbling will clean your pp spotless

 

[Carlos Danger]

Wire brush on a drill. Lickety split.

 

[Rillhurst]

Another vote for stainless pins in wet tumbling... Pockets come out spotless (with enough time)

 

[Crowe284]

Primer pocket uniformer. Works great.

This.

 

[Supersubes]

Youre wasting your time, move on to something that matters.

 

[SCKY Shooter]

I’ll do the stainless and wet tumble.

Yes, I’m seating to and exact depth, but that’s a problem with the carbon in the pockets. I’m wearing my hands out trying to get them clean.

There is no way I could seat a primer into all that shit in the pocket. I fully believe it doesn’t improve the loads but it’d just be principal for me.

I’m uniforming pockets prior to the wire brush stage, so that’s already being done.

Thank u very much for all the help guys, hopefully this will b the solution I’m looking for.

 

[ShtrRdy]

If it's important to have squeaky clean primer pockets, use the stainless steel tumbler for about 3 hours.

 

[Supersubes]

I fully believe it doesn’t improve the loads but it’d just be principal for me.

There are mental health professionals available that can help you with this problem.

 

[SCKY Shooter]

There are mental health professionals available that can help you with this problem.

My wife says the same thing!!!

 

[ScottDWallace]

Primer pocket uniformer. Works great.

Agreed. Half turn and it's done.

 

[Anderson_A]

I’ll do the stainless and wet tumble.

Yes, I’m seating to and exact depth, but that’s a problem with the carbon in the pockets. I’m wearing my hands out trying to get them clean.

There is no way I could seat a primer into all that shit in the pocket. I fully believe it doesn’t improve the loads but it’d just be principal for me.

I’m uniforming pockets prior to the wire brush stage, so that’s already being done.

Thank u very much for all the help guys, hopefully this will b the solution I’m looking for.

If your primer pocket uniformer isn’t cleaning your primer pockets than your primer pockets have not been uniformed

 

[Rlandry]

I use my Lyman case prep machine with the tool that squares the pockets. I know I've got a clean pocket so the primer will seat square.

 

[Singleshot]

I clean mine using hornady sonic cleaner + Hornady Case cleaning solution. Set it to 480 secs (8 mins), go watch TV, come back and again for 360 secs (6 mins). Primer pockets are 90-95% clean.

I tried detergent, lime shine, citrus acid, vinegar and etc combinations. Non worked as well as the shit Hornady sells. For me st least.

 

[Huskydriver]

Another one who stopped that noise a long time ago. Groups are still sub moa

 

[lightman]

I still do it. I use a uniformer from Sinclair on new brass and use it to clean the carbon from fired brass. I also deburr the flash hole. Maybe I need treatment too but the few mental health professionals that I know have just as many problems as the people that they treat!

Wet tumbling with stainless media and citric acid gets primer pockets clean. I've never sonic cleaned so I don't know how well that works.

 

[Milo 2.5]

I used to run a uniformer in mine too. I quit too more so because some of this brass has deeper pockets than before, needed 3 firings before contact was made. I have not seen one difference in accuracy not cleaning, truthfully, the rifles I shoot today are some of the most accurate I've ever had. I am over it.

 

[Cascade Hemi]

Wet tumble with stainless media. If the media didn't clean the pockets I wouldn't bother. You obviously have to punch the primers first.

 

[sissupr]

Uniformity primer pocket tool, use a drill with the cleaning bits for the pocket, wet tumble (lemi n dawn) for 2h, and if the pockets are still not clean I’ll take a cotton swab n rubbing alcohol if needed to clean out the rest of the gunk our.

Like everyone said, this has proven to have no effects on load development... but for whatever reason I can’t ‘not’ clean them. Whatever, I’m not reloading 1k rounds a month, so cleaning 30-50 doesn’t bother me. To each their own...

 

[Herstal 12]

Judging distances and doping the wind properly will get you way better results than cleaning primer pockets
Cheers