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snuffy · November 19, 2012, 03:57 PM

Do you know of this stuff called Naval jelly? It's heavy duty ACID. The case cleaner Hornady makes is concentrated acidic ACID. It gets diluted 40-1 to use as brass cas cleaner.

If your dies are simply surface rusted, then a trip through an acid case cleaner solution would remove that surface rust. It they're pitted, it would remove the surface rust, then you could see how deep the pits are. CAUTION! You will need to IMMEDIATELY rinse the solution from those dies, dry them well AND put some rust preventative oil on them.

November 19, 2012, 03:57 PM	#5
snuffy Senior Member Join Date: May 20, 2001 Location: Oshkosh wi. Posts: 3,055	Do you know of this stuff called Naval jelly? It's heavy duty ACID. The case cleaner Hornady makes is concentrated acidic ACID. It gets diluted 40-1 to use as brass cas cleaner. If your dies are simply surface rusted, then a trip through an acid case cleaner solution would remove that surface rust. It they're pitted, it would remove the surface rust, then you could see how deep the pits are. CAUTION! You will need to IMMEDIATELY rinse the solution from those dies, dry them well AND put some rust preventative oil on them. __________________ The more people I meet, the more I love my dog They're going to get their butts kicked over there this election. How come people can't spell and use words correctly?