Polishing Brass Medias
I was just inspired by a question I was reading. I have been using walnut with the red rouge polishing media. It works well but is a miserable mess. What is a really good polishing media that won't be a mess to clean up, and not particularly expensive.
Thanks
Eric
thats'me
Thanks
Eric
thats'me
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There are numerous sources for polishing media. The best prices come if you buy (either crushed corn cob or walnut) in bulk from a feed or tack store and add polish to it I have tried polishing agents from Dillon, Brownells and Midway and all seem to work about the same. Brownells gets the nod for price.
Red Rouge is a SERIOUS abrasive and each case must be cleaned before you put them into reloading dies - it WILL damage your dies!
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Eric,
I have been using just plain walnut for the really dirty stuff. (in the dirt after the match, and sitting in the bucket for a few years) Seems to get the brass very clean but not real shiney. I use plain corn cob media for polishing the "show" brass. Clean is clean. Pretty is just nice to look at.
Hawk
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Eric, try some plain ol' white rice. CHEAP!! Emery
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Try some Mother's Mag & Aluminum Polish in with your walnut media. WalMart sells it for a couple bucks in the automotive section. A small spoonful worked through a batch of media before use will last you quite awhile. Really does a great job, won't hurt your brass and gives a shine in short order.
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Plain old corn cob and add some Brasso . This works better than anything I have ever used.The Brasso is cheapier than the "brass polish" you can buy.My brass looks better than it did when new[:D] 0 -
I've been mixing my corn cob media and my walnut media
together about 70/30 and I add just a little bit of a product
called Flitz. It's real simular to brasso and available in
most sporting goods stores, not very expensive. It does a
wonderful job.[8D]0 -
I picked up a few tubes of flitz paste a couple months ago. The local hardware store had them on clearance cheap because the bubble packaging was damaged. I think I paid $3.00 a tube for stuff that was normally $10.00 a tube. I just squeeze about an inch of it into whatever media I'm using. Works great! I put it in the media and let the tumbler run a while before adding the brass. Also I use a rotary tumbler not a vibratory one. They also make a liquid that would probably be easier to use in a vibratory tumbler.
For my media I get mine from a friend that has a industrial tumbling business. He gets media in 55 gallon drums. The stuff I buy from him is ground corncob with a small quantity of 1/8" ceramic balls and what looks to be about #5 steel shot. Stuff works awesome. Especially on black powder residue. It's a little dustier than what you get at the gunshop. But, I get a 2 gallon bag full for $3.00
Woods0 -
I have been using ground corn cob for years, add a spoonfull or 2 of Mothers mag polish and you have a real winning combination. See if you can find a machine shop in your area that uses ground cob as a cleaning media. They order it by the pallet, the local guy here charges me $6.50 for 1, 50lb. bag. 0 -
I throw the brass in a vibrator filled with corn-cob media, and walk away. Come back in 3-4hrs, after doing some honey-do projects, and the brass is just as clean as you could ask for. Bright and Shiny
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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Brasso has a big downside to it. It's got ammonia in it. Ammonia and brass don't get along. Plain media left in longer works just as well. 0
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