Cheap additive for corn cob media?

[rogn]

If you really want cheap additive go (sorry fat fingers) with diatomaceous earth. Probably 20$ for a 50# bag of food quality. Shipping on the other hand.
But seriously diatomaceous earth is a mild abrasive used in some things like polish and tooth paste. Organic food or organic garden sources will have small bags for not too much for a lifetime supply even though the price compared to commercial market is amusing.

 

[Adam in WI]

If you really want cheap additive go (sorry fat fingers) with diatomaceous earth.

Shoot, I got a whole pallet of that stuff. It's the best absorbent floor dry there is

Using as an additive I could see it being tolerable, the product on its own (in our grade/application), is extremely dusty.

Napa sells it too, probably much cheaper than even the food grade stuff.

 

[T-shooter]

Here in Ohio we just throw walnut shells away but we do have a use for corn cobs.

 

[rogn]

Renewable, recycle

 

[JayHHI6818]

+1 on Flitz. Been using it for 10 years With untreated corncob and brass comes nice and shiny

 

[Bill K]

any suggestions?

thanks

Buy the treated cob and nothing else will be needed.

 

[Uncle Ed]

Make sure you watch after the shooting section, starting at 4.22. (lizard litter and Nufinish)

Below tips for saving money.

 

[David Eberts]

I use the Lyman walnut shell in a vibrator. I DO NOT deprime and size the cases untill after cleaning and polishing. That way I don't have to waste time trying to dig crap out of the flash hole . Then I lube and deprime / resize my .223 cases, check and clean the primer pocket and rinse the brass off with about 1 cup of denatured alcohol per 100 rounds or so. Then I trim to length. I'm not trying to impress anyone so I don't care that my brass doesn't have a mirror finish. After reloading and shooting 1000 + rounds without a single hiccup ,I think that this procedure speaks for itself. Fair winds and following seas. Phantom Phixer

 

[gambleone]

A cap or two of mineral spirits, cleans up carbon and wakes up dried out polish.

Going to try this.

 

[Rsadams]

I use the Cabela's brand it last a long time and is $10...

 

[brickeyee]

Brasso

NOT Brasso.
It has ammonia compounds in it.
They will corrode and attack brass.

 

[brickeyee]

Use RCBS walnut media. It cleans much faster, circulates better in a tumbler, and it comes with a pack of powdered polishing compound. The brass couldn't get any more shiny unless you ran them on a buffing wheel.

Walnut and Rouge.

 

[Robert Weidler]

A cap or two of mineral spirits, cleans up carbon and wakes up dried out polish.

I use the polish that came with my tumbler (non-ammonia) thinned with some mineral spirits to light cream consistency. I add this to the media before cases and run it a little while to get it thoroughly mixed in. Then add the cases: a couple of hours and the cases are shiny and necks are clean.

 

[WIB3]

Flitz!

 

[338 dude]

no one in the once fired brass world uses walnut, they all use fine ground corncob. cheaper and it works.

I use walnut hull media

 

[Artisan]

no one in the once fired brass world uses walnut, they all use fine ground corncob. cheaper and it works.

Many, many, many members on this forum and members on 2 other forums have purchased once-fired cases which I processed. My 3 vibratory tumblers, ALL use a walnut, corn-cob ratio and it took me months of experimenting to find the ratio which cleaned and polished. Walnut cleans better, Corn-Cob polishes better. When I started tumbling using a Thumbler Tumbler 45 years ago, walnut media (with the red rejuvenator) was all I ever used on fired cases. It may not have cleaned all the residual from inside the case, but the outside was better than new. I would even go as far to say, that by polishing each case, it kept me from ever getting a case stuck in the sizing die.
To many times I've seen the mind shut-down and watch the lips still move. I'd fact check my sources.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Here in Ohio we just throw walnut shells away but we do have a use for corn cobs.
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Just be sure you're not using the cobs that were treated with "rat poison".

 

[NorCalMikie]

Dry corn cob or walnut shells. New brass never came coated with anything so why add anything to it.
Walnut is a little tougher to get out of the flash holes.
Cob puts the polish on.
And as far as any media sticking in the flash holes??
Just another chance to inspect your brass for defects before it gets loaded.

 

[bobcat93]

Take it from me..what ever you add to your media..stick your tumblet in a day warm place and let it run with the lid off while adding your concoction..then let it run will the media is 100% dry..
You don't want damp media stuck in your cases..

 

[bobcat93]

Just be sure you're not using the cobs that were treated with "rat poison".

Don't give any one ideas..next thing you know...hey guys!... arsenic is a wonderful case cleaner..shin-em right up..then all the forum members start dropping like hotcakes

Hahahahaa
Most importantly, dont over clean your cases..,you really don't want your brass all smooth and shiny..thats another problem ..