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Originally Posted by Unclenick
The mineral spirits helps soften powder fouling in the cases and dissolves petroleum-based sizing lubes on rifle cases to let them wick into the cob, which speeds cleaning them off. It will also thin the polish, if it is petroleum-based, and that helps distribute it.
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This suggests to me that a dip in mineral spirits, common oil-based paint thinner, would be useful just prior to cases being dropped into media. They could still be wet. It stinks just thinking about it, but this would be a sure way to have case fouling benefit from the mineral spirits. Any arguments against doing that? I use a separate batch of media for actual cleaning. Final polish comes from a batch of clean, plain corn cob media.