Welp found a problem with the walnut media.....

[jmichelin84]

After tumbling in media, treated and un treated mix, i was down for a week or more with bad nephonia symptoms, and still got a bad cough bringing up stuff....
Im thinking of getting a we tumbler, anyone have a choice for doing rifle rounds?
Or suggestion on what media to use instead of walnut?
I wore a medical mask while pouring it into the bowl while out doors in a decent breeze

 

[yomomma]

Had nothing to do with the media.

Millions of people use crushed walnut as a bedding medium for reptiles.

Unless you stuck your face in the open running tumbler you should not have an issue.

Maybe get yourself checked for nut allergies

 

[just having some fun]

Some wood (dust / breathing it in) can give people a reaction even some exotic wood can be dangerous to breath in.

try corncob media or doing it out in the garage

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-allergies-and-toxicity/

wood working is a hobbie

 

[jmichelin84]

I was out side on the deck lol
And i might try cob, my mother gets headaches from nuts, so I think ill avoid it, I have only rifle brass now, so I am looking at options lol

 

[supernova]

I agree with the others, I doubt it was the media especially with the mask and doing it outdoors with a breeze. You likely didn't breathe any of it in at all.

 

[Innercity]

I hate the smell of walnut media, cant stand the dust either.
I switched to tumbling in hard rice. No smell no dust and works well enough for me.

 

[Barnard308]

throw a few dryer sheets (bounce sheets) in your tumbler, itll help keep the dust down.

 

[tigrr]

Get checked out for allergies. Might be something else you inhaled that caused the pneumonia issues. Some who breath the dust off gun powder get some serious side effect.
Use dryer sheet pieces in the tumbler because it really cuts down the dust. Might wear surgical gloves while handling the media.

 

[bearhunter]

I gave up on cleaning brass with walnut or any other organic media a long time ago. I switched over to stainless steel pins with vinegar/water/sunlight detergent and never looked back. It's faster, cheaper and the results are excellent. The pins even clean out the primer pockets and inside of the cases.

 

[jethunter]

I was out side on the deck lol
And i might try cob, my mother gets headaches from nuts, so I think ill avoid it, I have only rifle brass now, so I am looking at options lol

Nuts give me a headache too.

What is nephonia, can't recognise it? Did you mean NEPHRONIA? There is no other word in the English language that google can find that's even close to nephonia.

nephronia : [nəfrō′nē·ə] an inflammation of intrarenal connective tissue that occurs in a small percentage of patients with urinary tract infections.
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/nephronia

Walnut media caused complications with your pre-existing urinary tract infection? Wow dude, that sounds serious. Does it hurt when you piss? Have you seen a doctor??

 

[jmichelin84]

I couldn't spell phenomena, so sue me lol
And no it doesn't hurt to tinkle, and I had dryer sheets in the bowl with a trash bag over the unit with a medical sheet over the bowl top

 

[Hitzy]

I couldn't spell phenomena, so sue me lol
And no it doesn't hurt to tinkle, and I had dryer sheets in the bowl with a trash bag over the unit with a medical sheet over the bowl top

Pneumonia? Phenomena is something else again lol.
I use dry rice too....works fine with some polish added, walnut is really dusty compared to corn even.

 

[jethunter]

I couldn't spell phenomena, so sue me lol
And no it doesn't hurt to tinkle, and I had dryer sheets in the bowl with a trash bag over the unit with a medical sheet over the bowl top

Really dude, if going pee causes phenomena then you need to get to an STD clinic. You have caught something and it wasn't from the walnut media, although it's certainly more imaginative than saying you caught it from a toilet seat. ( wink-wink)

 

[jmichelin84]

Fluid on lungs, I hate spelling, my phone wont auto spell it grrrr
And ill try rice haha

 

[jethunter]

Fluid on lungs, I hate spelling, my phone wont auto spell it grrrr
And ill try rice haha

just out of curiosity, how old are you and how long have you been using a smart phone?

 

[tjhaile]

I gave up on cleaning brass with walnut or any other organic media a long time ago. I switched over to stainless steel pins with vinegar/water/sunlight detergent and never looked back. It's faster, cheaper and the results are excellent. The pins even clean out the primer pockets and inside of the cases.

Wet tumbling with stainless media is so much cleaner than walnut or corncob from a handling standpoint in a number of ways:

-No dust; all the nasty stuff gets rinsed away.
-Stray pins are easy to pick up with a magnet. Walnut/corncob particles get everywhere!
-Cases are cleaner to the touch. Dry tumbled brass can look pretty shiny, but your hands turn black from handling them.

 

[Kryogen]

Nut allergy ?

Go wet ss pins much cleaner

 

[jmichelin84]

I didn't use google, and im 31, had one for 3 years, before that I used a Samsung flip phone

 

[jmichelin84]

I think im going to try corn cob, and the word I tried to spell is Pneumonia

 

[supernova]

Corn cob with frankford polish is working for me, albeit slower. No dust when using the polish and it gets primer pockets clean if you tumble long enough. I leave primers in though cause I really don't care about miniscule, inconsequential carbon in the pockets. After 24 hrs brass comes out bright and shiny. It only takes 30 mins to an hour to tumble off the powder fouling to start sizing. I only tumble longer to remove the staining and make them shiny, when I feel like it. No STD's to date doing it this way.