Polishing brass in tumbler
Someone at a gun show talked me into trying ground-up walnut shells to polish brass in my Lyman tumbler. The 5 pound bag of ground-up walnut shells is untreated. Do I treat this with a media reactivator? I have a bottle of "Turbo Charge media reactivator", but it says right on the bottle, "For use with corn-cob only. Do not use with walnut shell." I have looked in Cabela's catolog and I do not see a reactivator for walnut. What do I do?
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The walnut shells will do a fairly good job all by themself.. Realy no need to ad anything to the mix. 0 -
If I want my brass to shine more, I put it through some corn cob after the walnut. 0 -
Hi,
Throw the used walnut media out and buy new walnut media.
Regards,
Heavyiron0 -
Buy a 25 pound bag of the cheapest rice you can find does a great job really shines and slick finish. 0 -
walnut cleans fine and may last longer than some other media. Midway sells an additive that polishes pretty well.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productnumber=1988780 -
Walnut with a touch of NuFinish car polish works very well.
CP0 -
A little bit of Brasso will make your brass shine!
Emmett
PS: I am going to try the rice.0 -
walnut for rough polishing
corn cob for fine polishing0 -
i found that if you mix 2/3 walnut and 1/3 corncob and put some polish in there. (couple cap fulls) like brasso or ive been using dillon polish they come out better than brandnew. its unbeliveable they look awesome, but theres a million differnt recipies you can do. 0 -
Unless your brass is really tarnished, just use corn cob. The walnut scratches too much, and then takes a long time with the corn cob to get it really shiny again. 0
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