tumbling media

[buellsfurn]

so looking to use walnut and or corn cob tumbling media when i start reloading .I see a gent on EBAY from Edgewood Md selling a mixture of booth with a dry polishing product added. Has anyone tried it yet?

 

[Sampson]

Haven't tried his product, but sounds interesting. Can you post the link ?

 

[Traveler]

Stainless steel pins, water, lemishine, dawn detergent for me. No going back. Walnut and nu finish is handy at times.

 

[buellsfurn]

I tried but I cant fig. how to post it on MDS but if you got to ebay search tumbling media seller is jimkelly101 hope this helps

 

[buellsfurn]

Stainless steel pins, water, lemishine, dawn detergent for me. No going back. Walnut and nu finish is handy at times.

dry tumbler only hear

 

[inkd]

so looking to use walnut and or corn cob tumbling media when i start reloading .I see a gent on EBAY from Edgewood Md selling a mixture of booth with a dry polishing product added. Has anyone tried it yet?

I've been using straight corn cob media for a long time now and always had good results. I never had any brass junked up enough to use walnut hulls.

Before you buy off Ebay, check out prices from different vendors. I got a 50lb bag from Grainger's for less than it would of cost from other places.

I use the 20/40 size of cut. It's fairly small and doesn't get caught in the flash holes. I got some buckets and dumped the bag right into them, pop on a lid and scoop it out when I need more.

https://sandblastingabrasives.com/c...inishing-cleaning-deburring-blasting-820.html

https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAINGER-APPROVED-Corn-Cob-Blast-Media-2MVR4

 

[Gunner220]

Stainless steel pins, water, lemishine, dawn detergent for me. No going back. Walnut and nu finish is handy at times.

Totally agree. Buy an inexpensive food dehydrator at Wal Mart or wherever . They have about five tiers and will dry a buy load of brass in 30 min or so.

 

[buellsfurn]

I've been using straight corn cob media for a long time now and always had good results. I never had any brass junked up enough to use walnut hulls.

Before you buy off Ebay, check out prices from different vendors. I got a 50lb bag from Grainger's for less than it would of cost from other places.

I use the 20/40 size of cut. It's fairly small and doesn't get caught in the flash holes. I got some buckets and dumped the bag right into them, pop on a lid and scoop it out when I need more.

https://sandblastingabrasives.com/c...inishing-cleaning-deburring-blasting-820.html

https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAINGER-APPROVED-Corn-Cob-Blast-Media-2MVR4

wow more or less same price but you get 36 additional pounds your way Thank You

 

[buellsfurn]

I still may pick up a small amount of Walnut at the Fredericksburge Va gun Sunday Edit , I'll probably be known for picking threw the dirt at SLSC looking for milsurp brass

 

[inkd]

I still may pick up a small amount of Walnut at the Fredericksburge Va gun Sunday Edit , I'll probably be known for picking threw the dirt at SLSC looking for milsurp brass

Don't buy any. I have some I can give you.

 

[GlockMafia]

I use walnut reptile bedding, readily available and works great with a squirt of "Nu-finish" scratch remover...


https://www.petsmart.com/reptile/su...ving-things-ground-reptile-bedding-24571.html

 

[Pinecone]

I tumble to get clean, not to have highly polished, better than new. And I want to limit the amount of time and effort.

I have been using corn cob based media for about 35 years.

I really like the Lyman media. It is very fine and pre-treated.

I also got some corn cob animal bedding at PetSmart and use that with Dillon polish. The bedding bits are larger and get stuck in 5.56 cases. About 1 in 8 to 10 comes out PACKED with media if I tumble empty brass. So I use the bedding for tumbling pistol cases and loaded 5.56 (I load on a Dillon 650, so some sessions have loaded rounds with case lube). And the Lyman, finer grained media, for empty 5.56 brass.

 

[Topher]

I use walnut reptile bedding, readily available and works great with a squirt of "Nu-finish" scratch remover...


https://www.petsmart.com/reptile/su...ving-things-ground-reptile-bedding-24571.html

This.
Get Lizard Litter and some brass polish.
Cheap easy effective.

 

[ADCOLE]

I've been using walnut hulls with White Diamond Polish for roughly six years now. Excellent results without any issues. I normally pick up my polishing media from the gun shows.

 

[byf43]

A trip to PETCO or PetSmart and about $15.00 for a BIG bag of "Lizard Bedding" (crushed walnut hulls) - gets even very dirty brass, really clean.

I've never added Nu Finish or 'Cat Sweat' or any other snake oil to it.

Lyman Tumbler Medium (treated corn cob) was my go-to for decades.
I still use it, but, not all the time.

Lyman's "Tuff Nut" media has red jeweler's rouge mixed with it, and I've used the same box for over 40 years (seriously!) to 'cut' any lube I've used, off of cases, after sizing, and it makes cases look better than new.
(LC 69 brass shines after 20 minutes in this stuff!)

 

[danimalw]

Another vote for lizard liner.

I tumble twice, once to clean then I spray with Hornady one shot lube, resize/deprime and tumble second time. The one shot acts as a polish and brass looks like new and tumbling removes lube.

 

[Uncle Duke]

Lyman treated corn cob here. I want brass clean and shiny both. You need clean. No, you don’t really need shiny. But its just not in me to devote my good time and good money to loading brass that I think looks like hell. For me, I want ammo that looks good and performs well both. YMMV

 

[Rockzilla]

]Stainless steel pins, water, lemishine, dawn detergent for me[/B]. No going back. Walnut and nu finish is handy at times.

the above ^^ switched from the Corn Cob, Walnut, still have a
Thumler's Model B from years ago, Dillon's CV-2001, use maybe
once in a while, bought the Corn Cob by the 40#-50#bag, Walnut
by the 15#-25# bag, transfered to Cat Litter buckets. Now SS pins
lemishine/dawn, don't have to replace the pins like the litter, make
a drum from a 6" or 8" PVC pipe, there are plans out there BIGGDAWG
on another forum has plans for building one..some even use a cheap
cement mixer, spray the inside with under coating or some Flex Seal
stuff, and your GTG, super size me...add a cheap Food Dehydrator, in
summer time just lay out a Dark or Black Tarp let the sun dry it..

-Rock

 

[4570inMD]

I tried but I cant fig. how to post it on MDS but if you got to ebay search tumbling media seller is jimkelly101 hope this helps

https://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Lb-Walnut-Corn-Cob-Tumbler-Media-Dry-Polish-Added-Polishing-Tumbling-Brass-/323026840892

 

[John from MD]

Lance,

You can buy 50 pounds of corn cob from farm stores. Or by 50 pounds of walnut from paint supply houses. Either one works to keep the brass clean. If something gets stuck in the primer hole, it will be knocked out when you size the brass. I don't care if my brass is shiny, only clean. Some of the polishing compounds make a mess of your tumbler.