Corn cob walnut shell and stainless steel pins are the three basic kinds of media used for cleaning and polishing brass cartridges for reloading.
Ceramic tumbling media reloading.
Two important things to consider when choosing a media are.
Deburr polish clean ceramic media is best for heavy cutting and hard metals like steel.
Iâ ve tested it by tumbling 100 round increments over the past two weeks in the new media and have cleaned over 1 200 rounds of brass to date and compared the effectiveness to tufnut and documented the results below.
Brownells is your source for tumbling media additives case cleaning at brownells parts and accessories.
Bought 20 pounds of ceramic tumbling media from a guy on fleabay plus a solution to enhance the cleaning process.
Rotary tumbling wet tumbling stainless steel media.
Stainless steel tumbling media pins 0 047 inch diameter or 0 039 inch.
The part material and what process is needed to be performed ie.
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Great for cleaning and polishing brass.
Please note that the media in the video may not be the same size as the media being.
Polly plastics rock tumbling ceramic filler media small cylinder size non abrasive ceramic pellets for all type tumblers 474 3 price 19.
Frankford arsenal platinum series rotary tumbler for cleaning and polishing brass for reloading 1 380 2 price from 15.
This is what i currently do to clean my brass casings.
Works very well for straight wall cases.
You can see ceramic media in action in this video.
K polish bond polishing this type of ceramic polishing media is made of high alumina and does not contain abrasives.
The kind of tumbler you are using and how dirty the brass is.
25lbs 4mm ceramic polishing beads.
Though wet tumbling isn t something new but the use of stainless steel media along with wet tumbling has seen a sharp increase in popularity in the last decade.
Each of these have their advantages and disadvantages.
When to use corn cob media.
The following are some of the things to consider when selecting a tumbling media.
Honestly this is the best way to clean brass casings as of today.
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Ceramic media will better support very heavy parts than plastic media.
Use these in your tumbler with soap and water for a brilliant shine.
Yep i tired it once.
Thatâ s enough to fill your tumbler up about 16 times and about 75 cheaper than purchasing tufnut media.
Produces a high luster finish and is suitable for use in all types of finishing equipment.
The best yet is the stainless steel tumbling media sold by the company in the marquis above.