Witch brew Brass cleaning

[Jedi]

So my old tumbler died and i looked at ultrasonic and stainless
Guess i,m old skool, so before ya skewer me
this is for those of us who do not run steel pins

My media witch brew is
petco lizzard litter, fine crushed walnut
Nufinish car polish
this will be run via thumler uv10

share your media witch brew
pert sure i,m not the only one still doing this ole skool way

 

[J!m]

Same here. Walnut shells and nu finish.

 

[ToddKS]

14-20 corn cobb, Nufinish, mineral spirits.

 

[spife7980]

Just rice now

 

[BurnOut]

I'm using rice as well... I tried a mixture of rice and baking soda, but that was a bad idea. It got brass really clean, but the baking soda tended to clump to the sides of the (vibratory) tumbler, and leave enough residue on cases to where they needed to be blown off with an air compressor.

God forbid you drop in a case with resizing wax on it... the baking soda would stick to it and make some sort of super thick paste that needed to be scraped off of every. fucking. case. with my thumbnail.

Ah, well... this is why we experiment.

 

[nexusfire]

Rice, rice, baby......dum dum dum da da dum dum

 

[308pirate]

You guys using rice, do you have any issue with grains stuck inside the case or in the flash hole?

I'm assuming cheap long grain is fine?

 

[spife7980]

You guys using rice, do you have any issue with grains stuck inside the case or in the flash hole?

I'm assuming cheap long grain is fine?

Small primer brass I have zero issues with, large primer brass can some times have one or two percent with a little rice in the primer pocket but it pops right out waayyyyy easier than corn cob does. Never found any flash holes plugged with the rice unlie corn cob which was a forty percent plug rate. .
https://www.primalrights.com/library...rass-with-rice

Long grain can plug the flash holes so a medium grain sushi rice is best. Not quite arborio big but not long grain thin either

https://www.amazon.com/Nishiki-Premi...430b0749f&th=1


Long grains on the top are thinner, arborio is on the bottom left, medium grain is on the bottom right. Notice that its a happy medium between too largeto plug flash holes but not so large that it cant get in the case etc
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[308pirate]

Thanks for the tips. Gonna pick up a couple of bags of med grain.