Bought some of that ground walnut for lizards from Petco.

I also use lizard litter. When I bother to tumble the brass.

For real^^.
Sometimes Im not patient enough for tumbling. When I first started it was really important to get everything shiny. Now-notsomuch.

We don't have Petco around here. I've looked at products by the same name locally, it looked like a lot of dust and big chunky stuff.
When I need media I just buy cleaned and sized crushed walnut.

JohnM said:

We don't have Petco around here. ....

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Last Christmas, I bought 2 bags of the lizard litter & Petco shipped them for free. Holiday specials seem to be a good time for this stuff... Much cheaper than buying it from reloading suppliers

I tried it once, too much dust with the stuff I bought.

Been using it for years, but always cut up an old used dryer sheet to dump in with the brass. This cuts back the dust alot. The wife likes nice clean brass so she puts all the old used dryer sheets in a bag for me on my reloading bench.

A little polish binds up the dust but I have never seen any in my lizard litter.

I run my tumbler at night. No waiting as I am inspecting the insides of my eye lids at the same time.

Buy ground walnut at Harbor Freight $19.95 for 25 pound bag. Works for me.

Just wondering how do the lizards come out

We don't have Petco around here. I've looked at products by the same name locally, it looked like a lot of dust and big chunky stuff.
When I need media I just buy cleaned and sized crushed walnut.

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Mine works great, and is to small to get stuck anywhere. No dust at all. They must have different specs at different distribution centers or the knock off brands are different or something.

Zilla brand from Petco is what I have been using for years.
Fine, and totally dust free.

I bought a bag of walnut Lizard Litter at Walmart once, and it was 50% dust, and 50% so big it stopped up every flash hole.

rc

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Jim

gonoles_1980 said:

...... just sticking with the Zilla from Petco.

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I've had excellent results with it; still running the original fill in my Thumbler's & it's still working well

~Just wondering how do the lizards come out~ Shaken, not stirred

Corn cob polishes previously clean brass.
Already cleaned in walnut.

Walnut is much more aggressive for removing tarnish and carbon stains.

So, if you want knock your socks off shiny brass?

Clean it with Walnut & case polish.

Then Polish it with corn cob & case polish.

Thats the way it works.

rc

JohnM said:

We don't have Petco around here. I've looked at products by the same name locally, it looked like a lot of dust and big chunky stuff.
When I need media I just buy cleaned and sized crushed walnut.

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I ordered my first Lizard Litter from Petco just last month. I used it to clean some 223 brass yesterday. It definitely is not course. It's finer than the corn cob I got from Mid South. I like the way it cleans. I put some cut up dryer sheets in mine and there was no dust. I'll resize then hit it with the corn cob. I've been loading since the late 60's and just bought my first tumbler 2 years ago so I'm still playing. I will be ordering more from Petco. I don't mind normal shipping charges. I figure they save enough on gas to pay their way.

Yup, that's what I use.

I mix untreated corn cob media with crushed walnut from Harbor freight, half & half to clean by cartridge cases fired with black powder. Pure walnut shells was abrading the nickle plating off my .40-65 cases. The mixture does a good job and leaves inside and out clean.

If I was in management at Zilla, I'd stick some of it in a different bag and market it to reloaders/gunshops. Have a reloading wing and a lizard bedding wing of the factory. It's the best stuff of tried and I've tried a few.

The "tumbling media" from Gander is awful compared to Zilla IMO, sticks inside every nook and cranny (flash holes and hollow points) and I had to remove what I could with a dental pick..Dont have that problem with the lizard stuff.

If they find out your using it to clean brass they will put up no guns signs grin

LOL, you're probably right. GENERALLY SPEAKING, the "animals are the greatest thing since sliced bread and we worship them" crowd is probably very close to, if not the same as the "guns are bad no matter who owns them and we need less of them" crowd I bet.

mooosie said:

If they find out your using it to clean brass they will put up no guns signs grin

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Maybe we should keep it our little secret