Tumbler Media

[Ganderite]

I use a similar 50-pound sack from Princess Auto but leave it open in my garage. Tumbling adds a shot of Nu Finish and a shot of water. What does keeping it in pails guard against? Animal nesting/pooping?

Mice like to nest in it.

 

[CzyHorse]

I use a dry media for small, wet for large quantities of brass. It's easy to 'clean' the dry media of dust, fines & dirt with a new drier sheet cut in 1/2" strips.

I'm of the opinion that clean media is a 'coarser grit' reducing tumbling time, flash hole plugging and dusty brass.

Replace the drier sheet regularly, don't be cheap IMO used drier sheets don't work.

 

[Geoff B]

Hard to beat wet tumbling with ss pins, when I clean big amounts or really dirty range pickup I use the wet tumbler.

I find the wet tumbling works very well for pistol brass but I have to decap rifle brass for the SS pins clean inside the cases. I have been using the same pins for almost 10 years.

 

[pweb]

Does anyone have experience using coarse crushed walnut shell media?

 

[OldDude]

^^^ The stuff Lyman sells?
If so, the size of it is just right (or wrong), and it plugs up primer flash holes. Sometimes a bunch of it gets wedged in the primer pocket.

 

[hunters home]

When you guys mention Nu Finish are we talking about the car polish in the orange bottle. TKS

 

[yomomma]

Yes

 

[hunters home]

Tks

 

[FLHTCUI]

There is no better way to stir up a pot of gun nuts than to ask "what is the best...." .
Same goes for oil in car or motorcycle or lubricant for said gun.
Guys will go to the extreme to suggest their method or choice of product is thee one and only product to use.
40 pounds of crushed wallnuts is on the edge of extreme , but in thriftiness this is a classic winner if not only for the dollar and cents, but also to share among friends if the need where to arise.

 

[pweb]

Not the Lyman media. I recently bought a bag of medium grit (12/20) crushed walnut shell from Grainger. It works OK but I'm curious to know if anyone uses the coarse grit (8/12) and whether or not it would scratch cases?

 

[Ganderite]

I have been using the new bag of Princess Auto walnut shell media. No dust. This bag is more coarse than previous bags. I like it.

 

[Butcherbill]

I have been using the new bag of Princess Auto walnut shell media. No dust. This bag is more coarse than previous bags. I like it.

Mines the same, after adding varsol and liquid wax dust is zero

 

[supernova]

Mice like to nest in it.

And spiders! Frig I hate cleaning balled up spider web from my media.

As for me I like corncob with a bunch of Frankford polish. The media cleans much faster with the polish, especially the tougher carbon on case necks. It also eliminates dust. I grabbed an RCBS tumbler and media seperator to use for cleaning with treated Frankford corncob and use untreated Hornady corn cob in the old Frankford tumbler for removing lube. Some Simoniz anti static applied to the tumbler bowls and media seperators keeps it from clinging.

 

[threecentsolution]

I found dryer sheets to leave a build up on the brass if used to frequently.