Rice, the new cleaning media!!

[mr_will]

well it was said some time ago that rice works good as a medium. So today I picked up a 20lb bag of cheap rice. NEXT TIME a 10lb bag would have been more than enough . Anyway, filled the tumbler and put some Dillon rapid polish 290 in there as well.

These were tumbled for 1.5 hrs in a Dillon 500 with rice with about 3 tablespoons of Dillon 290 Polish. 3 Brass and 2 Nickle just to show.

[stubbicatt]

Never tried rice in this capacity, as I can get the walnut bird litter at the pet store for pretty cheap, and it almost seems "wrong" to use something I can otherwise eat as a tumbling media.

Looks like it works well, however.

[brandyspaw]

Never tried rice in this capacity, as I can get the walnut bird litter at the pet store for pretty cheap, and it almost seems "wrong" to use something I can otherwise eat as a tumbling media.

Looks like it works well, however.

Hey Stubbi, Is the walnut from the pet shops as good as the stuff you get from the gun sources? I was just about ready to order some walnut media
from Midway and never gave a thought to the pet shops having some. The
rice gig seems a good yet cheap way to go as well.

[w748]

Rice grains look to be about the same diameter as flash holes. Any problems?
I need to pick up something for myself pretty soon and rice is easy to find.

[mr_will]

yea i usually clean stuff with them capped and decap them afterwords, but on the few that was decapped there was a piece of rice in a couple of them, it pops right out though.
I am waiting on a new toy from RCBS is that Electric primer pocket cleaner/sizer/swager

[Scott]

What kind of rice did you get? Japanese short grain, Indian long grain, etc.? Not trying to be a smart ass, I'm really curious since I have a Japanese food store in the family and spilled rice is everywhere.

[mr_will]

i used just plain american long grain stuff. Didnt pay attention I just bought the cheapest stuff on the shelf. I bet short grain would work a little better because its smaller.

[Scott]

Right on, I'll give it a shot and report back.

[Hoser]

Size does matter... Mainly with bottleneck cases. If the grains are the wrong size they will pack themselves inside the cases and are a total pain to remove. Ask me how I know.

Now I just use corn cob bird and hamster bedding stuff. Comes in 25 lb bags for under $15.

[Scott]

Right now, I'm only doing pistol rounds, so I don't have to worry about the necks. I just picked up some walnut blasting material at harbor freight today and some corn cob bird bedding from petco last night, but I can get rice for free.