Airborne Falcon

I like walnut media except for one thing. It leaves a reddish powdery residue on my brass, which when combined with case lube, seems to leave spots on my brass unless I tumble it again after resizing. But walnut definitely is a good polisher ... I guess because it is harder than corn cob? I used to two-stage tumble, first corncob, then polish with walnut ... but those darn spots on my brass that began to show after a week or so began to bother the heck out of me until I figured out what it was.

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Tubby45

Ditch the case polish. Use NuFinish Car Polish. A cap full will do. Put it in there with the media and let it tumble for 5-10 minutes to spread in the media and it won't get clumpy. Then add your brass. Tumble for an hour and it's all good.

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Airborne Falcon

I appreciate that greatly Tubby ... I am going to give that a try tonight. Muchos gracias.

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Tubby45

Make sure you get the POLISH, not the wax. They look the same. Remember "NuFinish Car The Once a Year Car POLISH". Should be around $4 for 12oz at Walmart or Target, etc.

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Airborne Falcon

Roger that. Thanks again. And thanks for the freakshow link too ... I am going to have to jump on some of those for the 10mm.

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elgriton

Go to Harbor Freight and buy the walnut blasting media. Its located by the bead blasting machines.

They sell 12 and 24 grit. Buy the 24 grit, its $25.00 for 25 pounds. Good stuff and its small enought so that it won't clog the primer hole like the corn cob stuff. The 25 pounds is probably a two or three year supply for me.

Ghuqu2

Some Walmarts have crushed walnut in the pet dept. Sold as bird litter, ~$6 for 8lbs.

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longo244

+1 on the Lizzard Bedding. I use it to polish after treated corncob to clean and it works wonders....and it's cheap. Who woulda thought...

JRG

I'm new to reloading and tumblers, right now the only casings I will be doing are 9mm. I have two questions for you experts...

1. Performance difference between corn vs walnut?

2. I'm tumbling about 200 cases at a time, how long should a bowl of media last?

I did one bowl for about 2 hours, then sifted the casings out and am now doing a second bowl. I'm using a dust free corn media from a pet store and one cap full of NuFinish.

TIA

Airborne Falcon

It'll last a long time, but it all depends upon how you use it and how many times you are willing to recharge it along the way. I reuse my media almost endlessly, or until it quits working when I recharge it or otherwise is too dirty to keep in the bowl.

I prefer corncob over walnut for general cleaning, but walnut for polishing to a high luster. Walnut can be someone dusty at times and if you use walnut and then lube and resize, you'll end up with some residue on your cases and red-colored fingers. So I clean with corncob, then decap, lube and resize. Then, because I am anal about shiney brass, I retumble in walnut media to get all of the lube off. I also make sure to charge my walnut media with Nu Finish not only to assit in the polishing but to cut-down on the dust walnut media tends to have.

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