I noticed two different sizes. 14 to 20 grit, or 20 to 40 grit. I am assuming the finer grit is better?
I was using the Lyman tufnut for over a year and cleaned about 10,000 cases with it in a 1200 turbo with drain plug. My buddy brought over his Dillon jumbo tumbler. It will clean about 2000 9mm cases at once. We bought a box of the fine media from harbor freight and added the nu-finish as stated above. We tumble for about three hours and the brass looks pretty good. When I run the HF media tumbled brass in my dillon 650 it sticks on the resizing die and kinda sucks when you are running 1,000 rounds in about two hours. I read where some are using a little case lube even on pistol brass. I added the Hornady one shot lube and things went smoothly again.
Is anbody else noticing this? I also get a lot of dust from the HF media as it gets transfered to the RCBS media separator. I have tried willowing it outside in the wind but I feel as though I'm spending more time fooling around with cheap media then just biting the bullet (pun intended) and go with a good media like tufnut for about $2 a pound shipped with Amazon Prime.
Just go to Grainger out on South Nappanee Street, Indiana 19, on the East Side of the road and order a bag of 20/40 Corn Cob Media. All your media problems will be over. Add a capful of auto cleaner polish as I suggested earlier, if you have dust, also add a teaspoon of paint thinner to the media. To keep the media clean cut/tear up strips of USED dryer sheets and add them also to the tumbler, the dirt will adhere to the dryer sheet. DO NOT use new sheets.
I use the cheapest grade rice I can find. It cleans (does not polish) and leaves behind a fine starch dust residue that I've found acts as a case lube.
Ya, I really want to contaminate my washer & dryer with lead residue, then wash my family cloths in the contaminated appliances. Really smart thinking.
Car/auto polish as in cleaner wax/polish, think Kit car wax, http://www.meguiars.com/en/automotive/products/g18211-ultimate-wax-paste/
liquid or paste or somewhat the same from other manufactures.
As I stated earlier in post #13 it contains a wax/poly that coats the brass and prevents tarnish. Straight polish/rubbing compound will not do this.
As far as the H/F walnut, it costs a dollar a lb. plus gas to get it.
Corn Cob cost less than a dollar a lb., can be shipped to your door for free, and one gets much more media per lb.
And I'll bet it gets stuck in the flash holes like crazy, ask me how I know from 10/12 years ago experience.
I've been doing the washer trick for several years without any issues. I do small batches in tube socks. Just make sure to wrap in a few socks so they don't wear through and get scattered throughout the washer.
So tell us this, when was the last time you had your washer tested for lead compound residues?
When was the last time you took your whole family in for heavy metal blood tests?
Washer tricks with the family washer is not a smart trick. But then it is your family.