Oooh! Found out a way to clean media

[Bovice]

Drinking causes cancer, smoking causes cancer, shooting causes cancer, reloading causes cancer... Basically, if it's fun, it'll give you cancer.

Alright, so the trick is using soaked pieces of leather? I've heard of wet paper towels before but haven't tried it because I tumble so much brass, it would be a lot of paper towels.

I'll have to try that, as soon as my "bubble boy" ensemble gets delivered!

 

[jcwit]

Drinking causes cancer, smoking causes cancer, shooting causes cancer, reloading causes cancer... Basically, if it's fun, it'll give you cancer.

So the solution is to ADD MORE hazards to your life? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooook

Been there, Done that, ain't worth it, believe me. Ever done Chemo?

No, I've never tried cornmeal.

 

[codefour]

U can also pre clean them in IOSSO Case Cleaner. Let em soak for ten mninutes, rinse, dry nad then tumble. It adds to the jewelry effect.

I got a Lyman ustrasonic cleaner for X-mas. I have to admit, it works gooooood.. Especially with a good corn cob tumble afterwards..

 

[1SOW]

Mine come out mighty shiny after 4 hours in corncob after prewasing with soap, water and a little white vinegar in a two gallon bucket.

Any kind of pre-washing will spare your media and make it last much longer doing a better job. Mine lasts a LOT of 4 hr cycles. There are 25K shiny 9mm brass stored on and under my bench. Just my findings. YMMV.

 

[GLOOB]

Alright, so the trick is using soaked pieces of leather?

Leather is kinda stiff, and repeatedly wetting it and drying it out will remove the oils and eventually lead to dry rot. I just used it because I had some lying around. If I were going to do this properly, I think I'd try some pieces of shammy cloth or maybe something synthetic. Maybe felt?

The way I see it, a tumbler puts lots of little things in continual contact with other little things. So just as it's good for transferring dirt from brass to media, it is also good for cleaning the media, too. All you gotta do is put something in there that'll take the dirt from the media and be easily transferred to a bowl of water.

+1 on the prewash. Before the prewash, my brass was just as shiny, but my fingers were jet black after a loading session. With the prewash, it cuts out much of this dust!

 

[blarby]

GLOOB : I like it ! For many reasons !

My observation is this : it isn't the dirt in the tumbler thats causing your cases to take longer, its the fact that the edges of the media have rounded.

There are few other ways out there, but using a 2 stage process has saved me a lot of "sharp" media since I discovered it.

My "clean" media has stayed operationally sharp for about 2500 rifle cases now, and is only now beginning to show any signs of wear.