Dudedog
Contributing Member
OK, I use Flitz with corn cob, dry, great shine.
Wet tumble with wash and wax and citric acid nice shine.
So I get this "brilliant" idea to try adding some Flitz to the wet process.
BAD idea Grey brass, I should have taken a picture but was freaked.
Like I painted it all with a light grey coating of soot.
Pins are all grey to. Inside of drum is grey, yuck. Bang head against wall.
Running again with wash and wax didn't clean them up much.
Used up a bunch of 409 to get stuff clean. 3 or 4 more passes to get the grey coating off.
One would have though I should have learned my lesson but no, a month later I get to wondering if maybe it was just the Flitz or a dirty barrel or pins.
Cleaned barrel and pins, threw in some car paste wax to the mixture attempting to get extra shine.
Yuck, grey brass again. (At least this time I had a cleaning strategy)
If you haven't tried this all I can say is it didn't work out well for me at all!
If you have and it did work out let me know I am curious if it is just Murphy and me.
Honestly it seemed like a reasonable plan at the time. (well at least the first time)
Wet tumble with wash and wax and citric acid nice shine.
So I get this "brilliant" idea to try adding some Flitz to the wet process.
BAD idea Grey brass, I should have taken a picture but was freaked.
Like I painted it all with a light grey coating of soot.
Pins are all grey to. Inside of drum is grey, yuck. Bang head against wall.
Running again with wash and wax didn't clean them up much.
Used up a bunch of 409 to get stuff clean. 3 or 4 more passes to get the grey coating off.
One would have though I should have learned my lesson but no, a month later I get to wondering if maybe it was just the Flitz or a dirty barrel or pins.
Cleaned barrel and pins, threw in some car paste wax to the mixture attempting to get extra shine.
Yuck, grey brass again. (At least this time I had a cleaning strategy)
If you haven't tried this all I can say is it didn't work out well for me at all!
If you have and it did work out let me know I am curious if it is just Murphy and me.
Honestly it seemed like a reasonable plan at the time. (well at least the first time)
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