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puma guy wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

puma guy wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

pushpullpete wrote:

Charles L Cotton wrote: All I've ever used is walnut hulls, so I have no experience with cord cob media. I've read that walnut is better for cleaning while corn cob is better for polishing after cleaning. I've never been willing to tumble brass twice, plus I can get a good shine with walnut. It just doesn't get the inside as clean as wet tumbling, but I don't care about the inside. I might feel differently if I decapped before tumbling, that that's never going to happen!

Charles, you don't need to tumble twice, try throwing in some corn cob w the walnut shell. It takes a little longer but
the mix does a nice job of cleaning & polishing. Maybe 20-30% corn cob. You can fine tune to your standards.
Personally, I am ocd anal. I deprime, drop in the Hornady ultrasonic & then the vibratory tumbler 70/30 corn cob to walnut.
YMMV

I didn't realize you can combine walnut and corn cob effectively. I'll give that a try. I have to go to Clemtex and get a 40 lb bag of crushed walnut hulls, so I'll get some corn cob as well.

Thanks for the tip.
Chas.

What does Clemtex charge for Walnut shell. I've been buying it at Harbor Freight.

It's taken me years to go through the last two bags I bought (80 lbs) and I don't remember what I paid. I'll post the price when I go this week.

Chas.

What grit do you use? I get the Coarse at Harbor Freight which they claim is 12 Grit. $24.99 for 25#.

puma guy wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

pushpullpete wrote:

Charles L Cotton wrote: All I've ever used is walnut hulls, so I have no experience with cord cob media. I've read that walnut is better for cleaning while corn cob is better for polishing after cleaning. I've never been willing to tumble brass twice, plus I can get a good shine with walnut. It just doesn't get the inside as clean as wet tumbling, but I don't care about the inside. I might feel differently if I decapped before tumbling, that that's never going to happen!

Charles, you don't need to tumble twice, try throwing in some corn cob w the walnut shell. It takes a little longer but
the mix does a nice job of cleaning & polishing. Maybe 20-30% corn cob. You can fine tune to your standards.
Personally, I am ocd anal. I deprime, drop in the Hornady ultrasonic & then the vibratory tumbler 70/30 corn cob to walnut.
YMMV

I didn't realize you can combine walnut and corn cob effectively. I'll give that a try. I have to go to Clemtex and get a 40 lb bag of crushed walnut hulls, so I'll get some corn cob as well.

Thanks for the tip.
Chas.

What does Clemtex charge for Walnut shell. I've been buying it at Harbor Freight.

pushpullpete wrote:

Charles L Cotton wrote: All I've ever used is walnut hulls, so I have no experience with cord cob media. I've read that walnut is better for cleaning while corn cob is better for polishing after cleaning. I've never been willing to tumble brass twice, plus I can get a good shine with walnut. It just doesn't get the inside as clean as wet tumbling, but I don't care about the inside. I might feel differently if I decapped before tumbling, that that's never going to happen!

Charles, you don't need to tumble twice, try throwing in some corn cob w the walnut shell. It takes a little longer but
the mix does a nice job of cleaning & polishing. Maybe 20-30% corn cob. You can fine tune to your standards.
Personally, I am ocd anal. I deprime, drop in the Hornady ultrasonic & then the vibratory tumbler 70/30 corn cob to walnut.
YMMV

ET-Ret wrote:Thanks guys for the good info.
I think I will try the walnuts first and in the summer jump to the Harbor Freight wet tumbler.
I did not start tumbling with corn cob till the late ninetys and I guess I am just getting pickey.
Those in the photo look like factory.
Again thanks .

Beiruty wrote:Once, I saw the first batch out of my Arsenal Rotary tumbler, I never looked back. I used Hornady Ultrasonic cleaner before, now it is collecting dust unless I need to clean some gun parts.

I have both SS pins and SS shreds, both works very well. If you clean straight wall pistol cases just stick with SS pins.

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oohrah wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:I use a Dillon CV-2001 with crushed walnut hulls. I typically use the cheapest car polish I can find, but I recently tried Turtle Wax Polishing Compound. I was very surprised how well it works because I had previously tried one of Mequiar's polishing compound and it didn't work at all. Over time, cleaned and polished brass will get dull, but so far, those tumbled with the Turtle Wax haven't dulled at all. I keep them in sealed 1 gallon Ziploc bags, but I'm going to start using 40# dog food storage containers that are air tight. These are stackable so I can have one for each caliber I reload in quantity.

Chas.

Charles, I use the same type tumbler, someone recommended Flitz to me, but I haven't tried out yet. How much Turtle Wax do you add to your load?
Thanks