KABOOM on brass

[Tuolumne Lawman]

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Anyone used that "Kaboom" cleaner in the purple bottle on brass? I know a penny will loose its tarnish, but has anyone used it on brass?

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I have.  Sometimes after the first soap-soak on shells fired with BP I place them open end up in a plastic container and squirt some KABOOM into the inside.  I let it soak, but I havn't dared to leave the cases in it for more than about a half hour.  

Now that I have an ultrasonic cleaner they go directly from the soap-soak to the vinegar & H2O bath in the ultrasonic.

[rickk]

I use it on my two brass barreled BP cannons... works great!

[Tuolumne Lawman]

I have about 400 rounds of empty 44-40 brass to clean and reload.  About 50 or 60 were NASTY, tarnished and somewhat corroded from repeated BP and Pyrodex loads.  Tumbling it in new corn cob media didn't do a thing to it, though the treated corn cob polished the rest like new.  I took the nasty brass and soaked it for about a half hour in Kaboom. Wow!  It really cleaned it up.  Even the ones that had some hard corrosion cleaned up with a green scratch pad after being soaked in Kaboom.  I would have never believed I could save the nasty brass.