Case cleaning additives

[Snake-eye, SASS#45097]

I use a vibrating tumbler with walnut shell for cleaning up brass and have no intention of going to liquid and pin cleaning. I’m looking to see what others have used as an additive to polish the brass. I have used a liquid car wax/cleaner in the past with some success but at times it clumps up and I find it stuck inside cases. What works for you?

[Boggus Deal #64218]

Lucas Metal Polish. Works great. Don’t have to do anything after the fact to remove it. Just load and shoot.

[Orient Express]

I used to use corn cob media with the NuFinish. I would run the NuFinish for 30min before putting the brass in and clumping wouldn't be a problem.

[Boggus Deal #64218]

To solve your clumping problem, put the polish in and run it without any brass for 10-15 minutes, then add the brass.

[Hashknife Cowboy]

 

50/50 mix into a vibrating cleaner works well for me.

[Eyesa Horg]

When I dry tumbled, I would first wash the brass in a 50/50 simple green mix. Just thru em in a gallon jug and shook occasionally for about half hour, rinsed. Save mix for next batch. Dried in a food hydrator. 

Then used corn cob media with Turtle wax/polish. Run for a bit and used a stick to break up the clumps. Then put the brass in with a used dryer sheet cut in quarters and run for an hour and a half. Came out like new brass on the outside, real shiny! Way shinier than I get with wet tumbled.

I did the prewash on my 45s only due to all the blowback. If I didn't, I got polished black cases when tumbled! 

The insides are much cleaner with wet, but I find it a bit more time consuming and messy with having to deal with so much water and rinsing. Too much invested at this point to go back to dry. Never had happy results with walnut shell. Corn cob would last a year or so with the he dryer sheets keeping it pretty clean.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

2 good squirts of Turtle Wax Polishing Compound.

Let it run for 5 minutes, and then add the cases.

[Garrison Joe, SASS #60708]

A cap full of paint thinner in a batch of media, plus a used dryer sheet, helps keep any polishing wax you might add BEFORE you add the brass distributed on the media and pulls LOTS of fouling and dirt off the brass to keep the media much cleaner and free from dust.  That also helps remove the black soot on cases like the .45 Colt which don't seal the chamber well.  GJ

[Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971]

36 minutes ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

2 good squirts of Turtle Wax Polishing Compound.

Let it run for 5 minutes, and then add the cases.

I just made a batch of new tumbling media just like this and used it to polish some .32 H&R mag brass that had been shot with APP and had some surface tarnish.  (It had been washed soon after firing.)  The polish was so effective I could not see any tarnish on the cases after the tumbling.  I too use old dryer sheets to control dust buildup as tumbling media ages.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Ah Well, 

 

NONE of THE ABOVE.  Nope.  Keep it simple.  Dump the brass in warm water cut with 48% White vinegar and let sit for half hour.  Rinse and dry (dry in the oven).   Put a little DILLON case polish in the Lizard Litter and run with the cases for Half Hour - Forty Minutes.  DONE

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

Ah Well, 

 

NONE of THE ABOVE.  Nope.  Keep it simple.  Dump the brass in warm water cut with 48% White vinegar and let sit for half hour.  Rinse and dry (dry in the oven).   Put a little DILLON case polish in the Lizard Litter and run with the cases for Half Hour - Forty Minutes.  DONE

 

Rinse and dry (dry in the oven)...Yeah right...my wife would be...unhappy.

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

Clean as a whistle.

 

[WHITE LIGHTNIN,SASS # 527]

59 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Rinse and dry (dry in the oven)...Yeah right...my wife would be...unhappy.

 

[WHITE LIGHTNIN,SASS # 527]

I use 50/50 walnut and corn cobb

walnut cleans and corn Cobb polishes with some Dillon 

[Lazy Eeyour]

https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/zilla-ground-english-walnut-shells-reptile-bedding-1038982

 

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https://www.midwayusa.com/product/2049432224?pid=432224

[Texas Jack Black]

 FLITZ

[Chili Pepper Kid, SASS #60463]

https://www.brownells.com/reloading/case-cleaning-prep/tumbling-media-polish/rooster-labs-cartridge-polish/

 

I use this. I live close to Brownells so I can just pick up. I've also seen it at Sportsman Warehouse occasionally.