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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Jingles on February 04, 2020, 03:43:43 PM

Title: Skin flint reloaders
Post by: Jingles on February 04, 2020, 03:43:43 PM: Ok topic might be misnamed but have a question for those that do a lot of personal reloading.

Being as I have been cleaning and reloading 10K pieces of 223 brass, curious as to how many if anyone else has successfully washed their corn cob media to be reused? yes I know that the media is fairly inexpensive compared to other items needed but curious if anyone else is as big a tight wad as I am.

If interested I use the media until it takes over an hour to clean the brass and it look grungy. get one of the better halfs calf length Nylons and fill it about 1/2 full of media tie the top closed with a slip knot, use a home made powdered laundry soap and wash it under running water in the deep sink. allow th majority of the water to drain out, put it in a large mixing tub (available at Home depot) about inch deep, allow it to completely air dry, usually 8 to 10 hours, and place it back in my media containers ready for reuse for the prewash to remove the majority of the grit and grime then use the newer media for the final clean just prior to reloading, when the newer stuff gets dirty it becomes 1st cleaning media.

So far have been able to reuse it and still get excellent cleaning results.
Title: Re: Skin flint reloaders
Post by: Fl0und3rz on February 04, 2020, 05:41:04 PM: Cheapskates unite. I find used dryer sheets help keep the media from getting really grungy. I was on the original media after thousands of rounds, before I switched to the SS pins and wet tumbling.
Title: Re: Skin flint reloaders
Post by: b23 on February 04, 2020, 05:45:17 PM: For that kind of volume, you should invest in a wet tumbler with SS pins. You'll never wear them out and they do a much better job, especially if you've got some really nasty dirty brass to clean.
Title: Re: Skin flint reloaders
Post by: Jonathan_S on February 08, 2020, 09:15:35 AM: Good luck with whatever you do but you will kick yourself hard when you finally switch to SS media for not doing it sooner. Life is too short for dry tumbling. You can look for used old rock tumblers if you're on a tight budget.

Best of luck