Comments on: Ultrasonic Case Cleaning — Does It Really Help Maintain Load Consistency? https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2008/09/ultrasonic-cleaning-long-term-benefits/ from AccurateShooter.com Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Fred Bohl https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2008/09/ultrasonic-cleaning-long-term-benefits/comment-page-1/#comment-1518 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:45:15 +0000 http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/?p=2122#comment-1518 Re the bulletin comments about the inside of the neck being so clean after the ultrasonic cleaning that there is a significant increase in the force required to seat bullets as compared to cases with residual carbon deposits. I find that the amount of increase in seating force is very dependent on how rigorous the reloader was in brushing out the case necks before switching to ultrasonic cleaning.

I’ve experimented with lubricating the inside of the case neck using both the Neco Dry Neck Lube Kit and the similar Redding Imperial Application Media with Imperial Dry Neck Lube. So far I have found the following:

More consistent seating force is attained by dipping the bullet base in the media/lube mix than by dipping the case neck.*

I can detect no difference in results between the two products.

The Redding product is less messy to use and clean up.

* For those that lube the exterior of the case neck before neck sizing, it would not be necessary also dip the bullet base in the media/lube as sufficient lube will remain on the inside of the neck to ease bullet seating.

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