How Long Do You Tumble?

[heavyBullet]

I feel like it is exciting for the first 30 seconds after you turn it on, then you realize that it just keeps doing the same thing and will do so for however many hours you choose to.


For any brass that has corrosion on it, Ie: When it gets wet at the bottom of your brass bucket. about 12-15 hours in the tumbler will get it nearly mint again.

LOL I'm excited not to watch it, but excited because right now I have been using my daughters rock tumbler which is smaller than a beer can lol.

 

[C Broad Arrow]

The walnut I bought was media for sand-blasting equipment. I didn't see any corncob.

I saw it at PA as well.... $29.99 for 50 lbs. vs. $12.99 for 5 lbs?

Does walnut work better than corn cob?
Can you buy corn cob in bulk like walnut?

 

[joe-nwt]

I saw it at PA as well.... $29.99 for 50 lbs. vs. $12.99 for 5 lbs?

Does walnut work better than corn cob?
Can you buy corn cob in bulk like walnut?

When I first started reloading I tried corn-cob for a bit, once I tried walnut I never went back.

I've never seen corn-cob in bulk but a pet supply place would be the first place I'd look.

 

[Kevin M.]

Whats the difference between the two?

I use corn cob, and it always plugs the flash hole.

If walnut is a finer media, then it would be less likely to do so.

Anybody that uses walnut?

 

[rumrunner64]

Overnight

 

[Kevin M.]

I have played around with the timings, and found that leaving a large batch for a full 24 hours gets it so shiny, you may not want to shoot it. Also makes it convinient to change once a day.

 

[IM_Lugger]

a couple of hours in rice cases come out dull tho...so I might leave it on for a little longer next time.

 

[kamlooky]

Kevin M......

Walnut plugs the flash hole also.
Not sure how you people get your brass so shiny.
Some of this old tarnished brass I have around here, even
overnight doesn't seem to do it.
End up polishing the necks by hand.

Sooooooo, the question is,
"What is the best recipe to polish brass?"
Corn cob mixed with???? or
Walnut mixed with?????

I have a Frankford Arsenol tumbler.
Thanks for all the tips.

 

[slicknick]

I'll leave it in for an hour or so. All I need is for it to be clean, I don't need anything too shiny

 

[BrotherRockeye]

I tumble til it's clean and polish til it's shiny.
My cleaning media gets no brass polish in it.
Common sense tells me the difference between CC and walnut is the hardness of the media...
still looking for walnut for cleaning...will stick with CC for the polishing.

 

[tjhaile]

I usually tumble for about 2-3 hours in my Lortone QT-12 rotary tumbler with walnut media and a capful of Brasso and the brass comes out pretty shiny. If I let it run for 24 hours, the brass comes out really shiny and there isn't much crud left on the inside of the cases.

 

[redbirddog]

I have mine on a timer. hour on, an hour off, an hour on, hour off for 3 hours a day.

real shiny

 

[Kevin M.]

Here is the difference between 3 hours of tumbling and a full day of cleaning.

I did not have any pics of the brass before tumbling, but you get the idea.

The brass tumbled for 3 hours is on the left, tumbled for 24 hours on the right.

Bad photo, it really does not show just how much cleaner the new brass is.

 

[yellowtips]

depends, but average around 6-8 hrs with cornco)

 

[sikwhiskey]

5 minutes with an Ultrasonic cleaner, 4-12 hrs to dry, Water and vinegar, deprime, size, trim, clean, dry , load. Selling my Tumbler, never use it again.

 

[josquin]

- Try Manus Abrasives for Walnut and Corncob grit. They have a Vancouver office.

http://www.manusabrasive.com/contact_us.html

Thanks again for the tip on these guys. I went by their Coquitlam office yesterday and picked up a 50 lb. bag of medium (12/20, ie about .035 - .065 dia.) walnut media. They only bring in corncob or coarse walnut to special order, at least here. But they say that the med. walnut is what they sell to a few folks around here for case cleaning. Pretty cheap, too- $21 and change for 50 lbs.

Stuart