Clean walnut media?

Wallyl

Active Member
Take a used dryer sheet and saturate with charcoal lighter fluid and place with the media when tumbling your brass. The sheet will become black with primer/bullet lube residue; you will have no more dust. I used to do what dale2242 suggested , which works. However the dampened dryer sheet works even better. I've been usiing the same walnut media for years, as it works just fine.
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Take a used dryer sheet and saturate with charcoal lighter fluid and place with the media when tumbling your brass. The sheet will become black with primer/bullet lube residue; you will have no more dust. I used to do what dale2242 suggested , which works. However the dampened dryer sheet works even better. I've been usiing the same walnut media for years, as it works just fine.
I'm with Wallyl, I am using the same corncob media for about 10 years. It started as the green treated stuff (Lyman?) but over the years it is now just yellow/tan. It doesn't work as fast, but works if you add a little Midway refresher every year.
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
To be honest, I'm sure my media life is greatly shortened by adding polish to it. I'm not about to stop doing this because I process big batches of brass and store them for future use, and I need the polish to protect the brass from tarnish in the stupidly high Nebraska humidity. The huge bags of lizard litter have been acceptably cheap enough to continue on my current path. I use thinned NuFinish in my tumbler and it lasts a long enough time to make the cost a non-issue for me. For added value, fill empty shot bags, or sewn up cutoff legs from old jeans for sandbags when shooting from the bench, if you use them. Can't sew? a decent grade of hot glue lasts a long time too.
 

Ole_270

Well-Known Member
Found some. Ushering the Grandkids around the Joplin/Carthage area yesterday afternoon after school was out for the year, tried Lowes, and Home Depot. Both show it on their website, but neither store stocks it. Home Depot had both coarse and fine grit, bought the coarse. It's still fairly fine grit, but should work ok. A little more than a dollar a pound for a 25 lb box.