Brass tumbling media

[Delfuego]

"Zilla" ground walnuts for lizards. Works great, and cheap from the pet store. Add Nu-finish for shine, mineral spirits & dryer sheets for dust.

[Irving]

Is Nu-finish a car polish? Is this one of those things that will be cheaper pretty much everywhere but the gun store?

[cstone]

Orange bottle in the car polish section at Walmart.

[Irving]

Thank you.

[buffalobo]

Corn cob ranks slightly higher than walnut on Mohs scale.

[Hound]

My bet it you either used too much Lemi-Shine or left it too long. I did the same thing. I can run mine for 1hr for a good clean or 2hrs for a great clean. After that it does not help. When I forgot it over night..... It turned bronze.

Just went this route. If you do you need to tumble with media first if your case lube on the brass. I made the mistake of not doing this and my brass was a bronze color. Had to let it all dry and then re run it thru the media. After that you have to check all of the primer pockets.

i have to agree that stainless is the way to go. It is expensive to start and it's a longer process than the media. I love the final product my STM Rebel 17 turns out.

[Slapps74]

My bet it you either used too much Lemi-Shine or left it too long. I did the same thing. I can run mine for 1hr for a good clean or 2hrs for a great clean. After that it does not help. When I forgot it over night..... It turned bronze.

Not sure. You could wipe the lube off and it looked pretty good.

[Zombie Steve]

Jeez. My wife thinks I'm a reloading nerd. I'm going to show her this thread.

[buffalobo]

Jeez. My wife thinks I'm a reloading nerd. I'm going to show her this thread.

You mean the thread where you have the most posts.

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/87717-W...ing-room-today

No way, it will just make it worse.

If she gets a glimpse of the truth...

[ray1970]

I've always wanted to experiment with some sort of alternative media for my vibratory tumbler. Maybe some sort of tiny plastic pellets or something. Just haven't gotten around to trying anything.