I use paper towels to dry my hands with at work, so when my hands are dry, the paper towels go in my pocket. I spread out 6 towels in the Lyman turbo 1200, then add the walnut media for the initial cleaning. I have already pretreated the walnut with NuFinish car polish. I only do the NuFinish about every 20 runs or so. On Each run I add 1 tablespoon (I really just pour some in each cycle) of mineral spirits to the run. The towels absorb lots of dirt, and this probably helps the media last longer and stay cleaner. I plug the tumbler into an electronic timer and let them tumble for 4 hours. With the timer I can set it before work and when I get home they are ready for the next step. The tumbler gets dumped into an RCBS Media Separator, and let me tell you this is a labor saver. After the walnut ends up in the bottom, I open it up and the dirty paper towels are discarded. The brass has lots of dust on it at this point. I then have a Folgers can full of fluffy paper towels (Also reclaimed from handwashing) and these are added to RCBS Media Separator and these do my dusting of the cases in about 15 turns of the Media Separator. These towels are put back into the Folgers can and replaced as needed. Works for me and is much easier than getting the dust off by hand.
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