Brass Catastrophe. need Help

[gutpile]

Cats decided to **** in my brass storage bin. Some was primed all was sized....how do I save it? Anybody do stainless pin tumbling? For a reasonable price?

Some of this brass I cannot replace, boxer 7.62x54r 7.62x39. Etc
Any ideas welcome
The. gutpile

 

[SEIndSAM]

Can't help you, but Damn, you never know what your going to find on INGO...

Can you load a primed case in your rifle and see if the primer will fire. I'm curious if Cat **** will turn the primer inert.

 

[gutpile]

I am washing in hot soapy water and dry them @ 160 in the oven then hopefully find someone i can pay who can stainless pin tumble them.......

 

[88GT]

Wouldn't the primers be ruined with the washing?

I think I would have just re-tumbled the non-primed brass and count the primed stuff as a loss, unless it was obvious that some of them escaped the pee shower.

 

[sloughfoot]

I don't understand why you think you have to stainless pin tumble...? Totally pointless.

Since you have washed and dried the brass already, just deprime and reprime before loading.

That is it. No drama. No loss.

 

[ScouT6a]

I wonder how cat litter would work as a tumbling media? Hahaha.
If that happened to me the thread title would probably read, "Cat catastrophe"

 

[SEIndSAM]

I wonder how cat litter would work as a tumbling media? Hahaha.
If that happened to me the thread title would probably read, "Cat catastrophe"

Cat litter sucks as a media, tried it once with a small batch, never again.

 

[Classic]

So where did you bury the cat?

 

[Mgderf]

Cats decided to **** in my brass storage bin. Some was primed all was sized....how do I save it? Anybody do stainless pin tumbling? For a reasonable price?

Some of this brass I cannot replace, boxer 7.62x54r 7.62x39. Etc
Any ideas welcome
The. gutpile

You don't.
That cat is done!

 

[Don]

Write the primers off as a loss and tumble all the brass after washing.

 

[Leo]

I wonder how cat litter would work as a tumbling media? Hahaha.
If that happened to me the thread title would probably read, "Cat catastrophe"

A brass seller on Gunbroker.com cleans his brass in a cement mixer using cat litter. When I complained he said I was the only one who ever complained. The crap was packed up solid in the rifle brass and messy. Ended up having to dig the clay out each piece of brass with a small screwdriver, soaking in soapy water, blowing out with air and retumbling in proper media. I'll never by brass that way again.

 

[gutpile]

It really tarnished the brass.....and my tumbler is done.....real frustrated....... I need a tumbler

 

[jcwit]

Why toss the primers? Priming compound is mud when put into the priming cups, then dried. Use them for practice, if nothing else.

 

[djones]

How many pieces are affected? I have small stainless setup you could borrow, but it is small!

 

[Broom_jm]

It really tarnished the brass.....and my tumbler is done.....real frustrated....... I need a tumbler

Urine is very high in ammonia, which has the potential to cause substantial corrosion. This is made worse if the brass was exposed to ammonia for a long period of time.

The oxidation brass gets over time is not particularly detrimental to the integrity of brass cases, but the damage from ammonia absolutely can be. Do some research on what to look for and then use your best judgement. You may well find that some of the brass you're calling "tarnished" is, in fact, ruined.

 

[Rocket]

And this is why, the only good cat is an outdoor cat. I didn't see where you said how long they had sat cattaminated. But I would deprime and clean again.

 

[churchmouse]

And this is why, the only good cat is an outdoor cat. I didn't see where you said how long they had sat cattaminated. But I would deprime and clean again.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Shoot the Cat

 

[jcwit]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And shoot the cat.

So blame the cat when the owner doesn't keep his components in a closed container?

 

[churchmouse]

So blame the cat when the owner doesn't keep his components in a closed container?

Purple implied.

Yeah.....put the cat outside. Why change/protect everything from a cat. We had cats and loved them. 1 got unruly and was sent to the great outdoors. I built her a nice shelter and kept her fed. She was much happier out there.

If you have an animal that is in fact acting like an animal....pi$$ing on your stuff......Outside kitty.

 

[churchmouse]

So blame the cat when the owner doesn't keep his components in a closed container?

Fixed it....happy now.....