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Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« on: August 25, 2024, 11:55:07 AM »
Anyone recommend any certain type of material in the vibrating case cleaners? Anything that works better than the others? Thanks 

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2024, 06:26:10 PM »
Crushed walnut shells is most likely the best.  There are different grades.  I get medium from harbor freight.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2024, 06:36:12 PM »
Crushed walnut shells is most likely the best.  There are different grades.  I get medium from harbor freight.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2024, 06:38:07 AM »
I used walnut shell once, mostly i use corn cobb.  I thought the walnut was more dusty.  So I stuck with corn cobb.

I also dump about 2-3 tablespoons of turtle wax car polish into the media.  I let it work through the media before adding casings.  The wax both helps cut down on the dust and it puts extra shine on the casings.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2024, 10:27:31 PM »
Walnut shells with mineral oil and car wax. They'll be shined up like factory new in about 4 hours.
Best advice I ever got was to have at least half a tumbler worth full of brass before tumbling.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2024, 09:14:49 AM »
Nishiki rice works great, no dust and easy to clean out of the primer pockets.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2024, 02:31:21 PM »
Nishiki rice works great, no dust and easy to clean out of the primer pockets.

I know someone that swears by using white rice.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2024, 04:49:50 PM »
I use to dry tumble with walnut hulls. Then I switched over to wet tumbling and never looked back.

When I bought my Frankford Arsenal Platinum rotary wet tumbler  I tumbled brass the was dry tumbled for four hours, it looked nice and clean.
I then wet tumbled the already dry tumbled brass that the water came out as black as if it wasn't tumbled at all.

Plus the insides of the cases and the primer pockets were better then new brass.
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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2024, 06:05:18 AM »
Thanks for the input. I ordered 5 lbs of Nishiki rice to try and will go from there. I have some really old Remington 222s that sat in the foam box in a basement for years. Doesn't seem to matter what I do, it won't clean up. Probably not worth messing with considering I have a new box of cases already. Thanks again.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2024, 08:51:02 AM »
Lizard bedding from a pet store or Amazon is crushed walnut shells and is usually cheaper than reloading specific walnut. Works good

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2024, 11:02:16 AM »
Nishiki rice works great, no dust and easy to clean out of the primer pockets.

I know someone that swears by using white rice.

I do this also. Any short grain rice.

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Re: Best material for vibrating type case cleaner
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2024, 12:20:29 PM »
For any of your using white rice here is Greg's write up using it.

https://primalrights.com/library/articles/clean-brass-with-rice

 


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