Deactivated .50 Cal Ammo

[Mike Timoshyk]

Thanks Alex,

Although this belongs under the restoration forum I hope you will forgive me.

After taking your advice I modified the excellent idea using the CLR. I tried a small batch of brass that been cleaned with washing soda and then sitting in the CLR overnight, and a batch in straight CLR. Since there was no discernable difference in results I eliminated the washing step and put the brass in 10 round lots into straight CLR. Afterwhich, I let the cleaned brass sit in a about 2 gal of fresh water to neutralize the CLR. I then used "elbow grease and Brasso to bring out the shine. Note: I also soaked the copper jacketed bullets in CLR as well. Do not do the bullets and then the brass without changing the CLR because you will end up with a fine coating of copper on the brass casings.

Here is a pic to show the results.


Cheers

Mike