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Posted: 2/16/2013 4:04:29 PM EDT
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I bought 320 pieces of primed 45 ACP brass off the EE. The seller packed it in a plastic bag and in a box. You can hear the rattle. There was a good amount of dust on the bottom of the plastic bag. I threw away the box and plastic bag. I put the brass in a plastic tub.
Today I belled the mouth for the projectile and my fingers were yellow green. I figured something was up so I put all brass on a towel and patted them and tried to clean them. The towel got real yellow. My question is this. Is this primer compound? I think the brass was wet tumbled with ss media and maybe lemonshine. Does anyone know if lemonshine would do this? Should I continue to reload or toss it at the dud pile at the range? I clean my hands very well with soap and water and scrub brush. I also cleaned the reloading area Real well with a wet rag. The rag did not show any yellow after cleaning with water. It was just when I put the brass in the white towel. Thanks |
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It's probably polishing compound from the guy's tumbler. Lyman's green corn cob stuff leaves that sort of residue.
Primers are sealed with a foil disc over the priming compound, which then has a drop of lacquer placed on it to further seal it, and then finally the anvil. I think you'd have caused come sort of pyrotechnic reaction just by shaking the bag if it had been priming compound. |
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If you look at different brand primers, they are different colors. What color are the primers in the brass? Do you know what brand the primers are supposed to be?
Last week I de-primed ~100 pieces of 270 with live WIN primers which created dust much like you describe. |
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I was told they are winchester primers.
I do clean my primer tubes every so often. I was curious because the same stuff on the small paper I clean the tubes with looked similar to the yellow green on my towel. Do you think the brass is ok to load! It was 1 or 2 times fired brass sold as primed brass. |
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I will see if I can gets pics up. The brass looks real nice. If I didn't mention it and you held the brass you wouldn't know.
The towel is where the yellow is. The brass is clean now. I will take a paper towel and wipe the brass on the inside and see if I have any yellow dust inside the brass. |
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Just a note for the guys that reload with primer tubes. It is wise to put a damp patch through them every once in a while. The yellow/green stuff that come out is primer dust. Keep you primer tubes clean!!!!!!! Quoted for truth. After hundreds of primers run through those tubes, some priming compound will collect, and it doesn't take much to give you a problem. But OP, in this case we're talking about literally thousands and thousands of primers needed to produce the quantity of dust you've described. Unless the guy that primed those cases managed to get ALL of his priming dust buildup into your small number of cases, it is still more likely tumbler dust, not priming compound. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Just a note for the guys that reload with primer tubes. It is wise to put a damp patch through them every once in a while. The yellow/green stuff that come out is primer dust. Keep you primer tubes clean!!!!!!! Quoted for truth. After hundreds of primers run through those tubes, some priming compound will collect, and it doesn't take much to give you a problem. But OP, in this case we're talking about literally thousands and thousands of primers needed to produce the quantity of dust you've described. Unless the guy that primed those cases managed to get ALL of his priming dust buildup into your small number of cases, it is still more likely tumbler dust, not priming compound. I use the small following rod for the priming system as a sort of cleaning rod. A .177 caliber cleaning rod meant for airguns will work as well. |
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