D.Hayden Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 I just got a fair amount of 38 Special Nickel cases. I usually tumble brass for about an hour with untreated walnut, then 1-2 hours with corn cob, treated with Dillon's Brass polish. With nickel, do you still use brass polish, or use untreated corn-cob? Thanks, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 The only thing the polish will do is an abrasive to your media, which will help scrub the crud off - if you have crud that needs scrubbing. Chemically, it will do zip. If your nickel cases aren't really gunky, you can pass on adding the polish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin c Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 I know folks who tumble their brass for hours, occasionally days, and if you do it enough, especially with polish added to a coarse grit hard medium like walnut hulls, you can actually polish off the plating. This isn't a big deal functionally, but you can tell your brass has gone a lot of reloadings when nickel looks like regular brass . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Seems to me that addind liquid polish helps to keep the dust down? Anybody else experience this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Moore Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 "thread drift on" i got a tip from this very site about keeping dust down and that's to use a dryer sheet your wife puts in the dryer to make your clothes come out soft. "thread drift off" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 But...but...I'm not married (and I do my own laundry anyway). I have used the dryer sheets in the past (only reason I bought them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Damn' dryer sheets smell AWFUL!! Bleh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Take a paper towel and cut it into nice sized squares. Throw a few in the tumbler with each load. Does the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 Actually, I got started a bit on this in another 'tumbling-and-polishing' thread, as I just bought a quantity of really, really fine grit corn-cob media and speculated that mixing it with the coarser corn-cob might kill two birds with one stone and put a nice polish on casings as well as continuing to clean them in their Step Two cleaning phase. Well, I tried it and it worked really well. Kind of like a laundry enhancing additive or something... it put a nice polish on 'em but increased the cleaning level and shortened tumbling time. Or, in this case, I got more cleaning/polishing effect out of the same tumbling time. Worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin c Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 Minor thread drift: Has anyone EVER worn out a sizing die because of polishing grit? Or is Midway just hyping tumbling with treated and a second time with untreated just for the sake of media sales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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