Play With Your Food: Clean Brass With Rice

[7mmb]

I will vigorously defend against those who post irreverent and irrelevant remarks regarding Okran's posting without citing to appropriate legal or judiciary authority.

The legal authority for my irreverent and irrelevant remarks is Amendment 1, U.S. Constitution.

 

[splattergun]

Well Orkan, I'll add this before dropping this thread;
You are not the first to try rice as tumbling media, and you won't be the last. Some people use it. But there are reasons why it is not a very popular medium for tumbling brass.
You can find several threads on this forum on the subject. It's a very easy search.

 

[GBExpat]

I use corncob media with a bit'o'polish added (along with some pieces of used dryer sheets to help keep it clean).

It does what I expect it to do, lasts a very long time and is cheap to replace.

Rice, I cook and eat.

 

[LiveLife]

So for those of you who use the "wet Cleaning method" and worried about "toxic" dust from dry tumbling, what do you do with the "now toxic" solutions used???

Dump them down the drain into the municipal waste stream? Dump them in the yard to leach into the water table?

No.

Line a bowl/container with plastic sheet/bag (you can even reuse grocery/produce plastic bag) and evaporate the "toxic" solution. You can put a screen/vented cover if you have concern that animal might drink the solution.

Then wrap the dried "toxic" residue with plastic bag and put in the trash.

Ta da!

 

[mdi]

So, you advocate putting toxic material in a plastic bag, that won't degrade in 1,000 years and allow it to go to a landfill? Same as dumping it into the yard, just someone else's yard and a longer time...

 

[Walkalong]

This has wandered of topic.