So I borrowed a Hornady sonic cleaner from a guy who had never used it, along with a bottle of their cleaning solution. Been having some seating pressure inconsistencies and wanted to see 1) what the sonic cleaning is all about and 2) get my case necks completely clean and see if the seating pressure evened out.
Got it set up last night, mixed the solution, poured it in the machine and ran a few cycles with solution only, had read somewhere that it was best to do this to remove small amounts of aeration in the water (don't know if if did anything but was no bother to run a couple 7 min cycles).
First I did a test run of some old PPC brass with well over 10 firings on it. After 2 and a half 7min cycles the brass was very clean on the inside, maybe a speck here and there in the body but the necks and bases were perfect. The brass didn't have the high polished sheen but wasn't stained or tainted looking.
Next I had an old brake that had never been cleaned, maybe 600 firings on it, 2 7 min cycles and it was almost like new, a couple tiny specks in the crevices but another cycle would probably finish those off.
So I'm wondering if putting the chamber end of the barrel in the machine and running it would work on the carbon ring that forms at the end of the chamber. My concerns are that the solution might not be good for the steel and would it be effective if only a small portion of the object was submerged and supported by the device.
Does anyone have any experience with these things and the possibilities and limitations of what they might be able to clean?
Got it set up last night, mixed the solution, poured it in the machine and ran a few cycles with solution only, had read somewhere that it was best to do this to remove small amounts of aeration in the water (don't know if if did anything but was no bother to run a couple 7 min cycles).
First I did a test run of some old PPC brass with well over 10 firings on it. After 2 and a half 7min cycles the brass was very clean on the inside, maybe a speck here and there in the body but the necks and bases were perfect. The brass didn't have the high polished sheen but wasn't stained or tainted looking.
Next I had an old brake that had never been cleaned, maybe 600 firings on it, 2 7 min cycles and it was almost like new, a couple tiny specks in the crevices but another cycle would probably finish those off.
So I'm wondering if putting the chamber end of the barrel in the machine and running it would work on the carbon ring that forms at the end of the chamber. My concerns are that the solution might not be good for the steel and would it be effective if only a small portion of the object was submerged and supported by the device.
Does anyone have any experience with these things and the possibilities and limitations of what they might be able to clean?
