Is there any way to fix this?

[TooManyToys]

You can get rid of most of the dust with a plastic bag & a large bucket.

Cut a little off the corner of a plastic bag filled with your tumbling media to form a small hole.
While standing several feet above your bucket, let it slowly pour out of the bag into the bucket.
If you do this with a very slight breeze in the air, the fine dust will separate and drift away as the larger particles drop in the bucket. Repeat if necessary.
This will remove the majority of the fine dust. (Do this outside of course)
Dryer sheets as mentioned above will help with what little dust still remains.

 

[hoghunting]

If you have the Yellow pages phone book or search the online Yellow pages, look up "abrasives" as you can get 50# bags of walnut or corn cob media extremely cheap. Just add your own polish and you're in business.

 

[mugsie]

Ok, so I guess I need to get the dust out of the media prior to using it, well, as much dust as possible. Then the stuff already tumbled, i need to clean that again and maybe add a little nu-finish car wax to it, some dryer sheets and retumble. Whew! Seems like a lot more work using this shortcut. It is the Zilla stuff, and it's like desert sand after a good tumbling. The Lyman was dump it into the tumbler, add cases, turn on and wha-la, nice shiny brass.

Now that I've got this stuff, and because as I already said, I'm a cheap SOB, I'll clean what I can and try to make it work. Somehow I see me purchasing the Lyman stuff again though. So much for the $10 experiment.

 

[Blue68f100]

The least amount of dust will come from actual blast media. Pet bedding is all the scrap left over from processing. Which means all of the good usable media is gone. Blast media is not expensive and comes in larger bags. Harbor Freight carries the Walnut hulls at a very cheap price. I use a 50/50 mix of 20/40 corncob and walnut hulls. I only need to run the tumbler for 2 hrs max. I do add the NuFinish polish to the mix along with strips of paper towels or a few cleaning patches.

Normally a bag will last you for years.

 

[tcoz]

Forgive me guys, but it seems like some people go to a lot of extra effort and expense to make their cases look like they just came off the production line or to save a few bucks amortized over months. I just don't have the space to store a 50lb bag of media that'll take me a few years to use and my cases that are simply tumbled with Lyman corncob media come out looking better than production ammo cases. Just my opinion.

 

[Average Joe]

I use the Lizard litter, and a cap full of turtle wax chrome polish. If you want to cut down on the dust, drop in a few patches from you .30 caliber cleaning kit.

 

[Sport45]

This is as good as it gets.

http://www.petco.com/product/102881/...e-Bedding.aspx

rc

I use the same stuff. Straight from the bag with a splash of mineral spirits. Works fine for me and only have to buy a new bag every 5 years or so.

 

[up 2 snuff]

Put 4 lid fulls of Nu Finish car wax in with your crushed walnut shells. Keeps the dust down and puts a nice coating of wax inside and out. Brass shines nicely.

 

[mljdeckard]

I use it a lot.

A little dust doesn't seem to hurt anything. The dryer sheets help, you can also add Lyman media treatment or Nu-Finish car polish to treat it, but most of the time I just dump it in and plug it in.

 

[Steve C]

If you want your reptile litter to clean cases you have to add some case polish which reduces the dust. I use Midways case polish but have used Dillons too. Others will say you can use new finish but frankly its more expensive than the same quantity of Midways that is formulated as case polish. Midways case polish contains wax, along with an orange peal based cleaner which you can see after it sets a while and separates a bit. Look for it on sale at various times. With case polish added you won't have a dust problem.

 

[jmorris]

I tried the lizard litter once and was unimpressed, went back to walnut in one and corncobb in the other. Both are not as clean as SS pins in my rotary tumbler but a lot less work for just a few cases.

 

[WestKentucky]

Harbor freight fine. I tumble after deprime then when I hand prime I check primer ports. I get a piece of walnut every 40 or 50 shells on 38/357 less on rifle and 44 mag.

 

[Iron Sight]

150 mixed 38 specials 1-1/2 hrs in my Lyman Turbo Tumbler +. 1 cap of Nu Finish car polish. Walnut hulls were new "Zilla" fresh out of the bag. Hardly any dust.

 

[newfalguy101]

I have actually used plain old paper towels to "soak" up the dust, doesn't work as well as dryer sheets, but, worked well enough for me and cheap to boot!!