Reloaders: How do you clean your brass?

I use a Franklin dry tumbler with corn media, brass polish, and a little NuFinish. Brass looks factory clean and very bright. I'm tumbling a mix of pistol and rifle brass. I looked into wet media tumblers but didn't see much of an advantage and the tumbler I got was less than 1/3 the cost with everything combined.

Here is a breakdown for what I use:
1. Harbor Freight dual drum rock tumbler.

$54.99

2. STM touch up 2lb pack.

$19.95

Add a little dish soap that I stole from the wife and a little bit of lemi-shine or its generic version for about $5.

So for about $100 including shipping/taxes/etc you have a basic stainless wet tumbling setup. Best thing is I dont have to deal with the dust of other media nor do I have to dig corn cob media out of 223 brass anymore. Just rinse the dirty water out of the pins and put them up, dont even have to dry them if you dont want.

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go buy a Lee universal de-capper

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Quite possibly the best $10 I ever spent on handloading tools!

I deprime my brass after running it through the tumbler, otherwise the tumbling media has a tendency to get stuck in most of the primer pockets. When I want to clean the primer pocket, I chuck my primer pocket uniformer tool in an electric drill.