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Posted: 10/9/2009 7:29:12 AM EDT
| How often do you change your Media? I've got some dirty looking stuff. Do you use one type to clean to start then something else to finish? Just askin. |
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I have media in my tumbler that I put in almost a year ago and have cleaned 6000-7000 cases (I know, I don't reload enough).
I put in some strips of used dryer sheets and It keeps the dust down and keeps the media cleaner. Then again, I only tumble for 45 minutes to a hour. I don't go for shiny, just clean. |
| I use corn cob pet bedding and a couple cap fulls of Nu-Finish car polish ,only load 30 cal. and straight wall pistol case so larger size media doesn't matter in my case. I put a couple 2" strips of used dryer sheets in each batch of brass I clean to pull out the dust and trash. When it starts taking longer than about 2 hours which is several months to clean the brass and make it shiny I throw it out and star over. I add about 1 extra cap full of polish about every 4 batches of brass. |
I usually do two cleanings, first one in walnut for an hour or so to clean the brass, the second with corn cob media (currently Lyman green) after sizing. I always do this with .223 so I remove lube and have tried to incorporate it into my pistol reloading as well, just to make it shiny . The walnut stuff is doing the dirty work but I rarely exchange it since it's job is just to remove crap and a second cleaning will follow.
IMO, if it still works in a time frame your comfortable with then it's AOK. |
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Dryer sheets do nothing in corn cob.
I love people that makes quotes and don't know what there talking about,I will be happy to post a pic of some that come out of my vib tumbler and then you can tell me there not dirty. Would you love it even more if I said they "do nothing worthwhile?" Of course they get dirty. The statement I was addressing was regarding dust. Corn cob media doesn't produce a noticeable volume of dust like walnut shells do. Getting dirty along with the media accomplishes next to nothing, and certainly nothing worthwhile. |
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Never.
I don't put polish in corn cob, and I don't put dirty cases in corn cob. I use it to delube only. The walnut I'm using is 8 or 9 years old and just gets topped up with new media occasionally to replace spillage. It has had a very little Graf's polish added over the last year or year and a half, not enough to aid accumulation of carbon residue. I've also delubed a few cases in the walnut to find out how well it works. The cases that go into my walnut only have the residue from firing, no left over dirt, sand, mud, or gravel. This media is still nice and clean. I use a dryer sheet every third load if I'm working on a big batch, or when I remember if it has been a while. |
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