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Best Cleaning Media and Polishing Additive

Fairlane66
There are several threads on this subject, but I thought I'd ask the question one more time to see if there are any new thoughts. What media and polishing additive do you recommend for cleaning/polishing brass? Thanks.
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  • dcs shooters
    I use Kit Scratch Out I get at Wal-Mart. Any fine liquid polishing compound will work. Just add a couple caps of it to the media.

    IN THE FIVE OR SIX YEARS OF USING THIS POLISHING COMPOUND, IT HAS NEVER GUMMED OR LUMPED UP [^][^]

    If you try it, get the vibrator tumbler going with just your media in it and add liquid and let run until mixed in. Then add brass.
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  • Rocky Raab
    As I've posted before, sooner or later (and usually sooner) all that stuff is going to gum up your media and leave a hard gray crud on your brass that you'll have to get off by hand. What it leaves INSIDE your brass is too scary to think about.

    I firmly recommend against ANY additive. Use walnut to clean, corn cob to polish if shine is important to you.
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  • oneoldsap
    I agree with Rocky , sometimes less is more .
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  • leeblackman
    I used untreated corncob media for like 10 years. Literally I'd leave my tumbler running for a day or two to get brass to that nice shine. I tried the whole walnut to clean thing like once. There just isn't any point.

    My advice, buy treated corncob media from the get-go. Lyman Tubro Tumbler media is some good stuff. You'll notice the first run only takes a couple hours, and it comes out looking like new brass. Then as the media gets blacker and more gunk in it from use it takes longer. You can add a chemical refresher to it, but it lasts long enough that when it gets really nasty just throw it out and put in fresh media.
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  • v35
    I've been shooting surplus and commercially reloaded ammo for years and just recently got back into reloading.
    I read plain rice of the cheapest brand worked as good as any commercial tumbling media but have yet to try it.
    Any comments on rice?
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  • oneoldsap
    If you have 2 bowls for your tumbler clean them with Lyman Tuff-Nut for a couple of hours , then put them into the corn cob for a couple hours and they will look a lot like new !
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  • gregoryhart1
    I just tumbled a bunch of brass yesterday using rice and it worked very well. I was using a rotary tumbler and let them go about 4 hours or so. They came out nice.
    GH1[:)]
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  • rawiron1
    Silica free children's play sand. This stuff is silica free, filtered, and baked.

    Jason
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