chale127
Ultimate Member
Ok, i have got to be doing something wrong and i'm not sure what it is yet..
I have two tumblers, a Midway and a Harbor freight (the HF one IS much quieter to my surprise)
Doing up a PILE (3-5k Rds) of .45 brass that has been stockpiling for quite a while and i am handling the cleaning and initial sorting
in the past we used corncob with an assortment of cleaners, mothers, 3m polishing compound and a few others..
all along i have been less than impressed with the cleaning results, they have been acceptably clean but not almost "new" looking as the results i have seen and bought used from some vendors
So last night i got 25lb of walnut and loaded up two runs, first was walnut with 3M polishing compound, it ran for about 5 hrs and turned the media almost black, the brass was cleaner than when i put it in but not as clean as one would think for the amount of darkness that the media changed
then early this morning i ran batch two which was just the walnut media for about 4hrs, the results were amazingly similar, clean, but not CLEAN
SO, my next step is to find the "magical" flitz reloading compound everyone is using....any other suggestions???
First two runs
sifting bucket, you can see quite a contrast between the media that had compound in it and by itself
I have two tumblers, a Midway and a Harbor freight (the HF one IS much quieter to my surprise)
Doing up a PILE (3-5k Rds) of .45 brass that has been stockpiling for quite a while and i am handling the cleaning and initial sorting
in the past we used corncob with an assortment of cleaners, mothers, 3m polishing compound and a few others..
all along i have been less than impressed with the cleaning results, they have been acceptably clean but not almost "new" looking as the results i have seen and bought used from some vendors
So last night i got 25lb of walnut and loaded up two runs, first was walnut with 3M polishing compound, it ran for about 5 hrs and turned the media almost black, the brass was cleaner than when i put it in but not as clean as one would think for the amount of darkness that the media changed
then early this morning i ran batch two which was just the walnut media for about 4hrs, the results were amazingly similar, clean, but not CLEAN
SO, my next step is to find the "magical" flitz reloading compound everyone is using....any other suggestions???
First two runs
sifting bucket, you can see quite a contrast between the media that had compound in it and by itself