Rice cleaning media?

[Curtis B]

Read a couple months ago about a recipe of mineral spirits and auto polish with rice for bras cleaning and polish.
Wondering has anyone tried this out?

Thanks

 

[Lapua40X]

Unlike some of the more common media like cobs or walnut shell, rice is a starch. Any liquid included with it will tend to release some of that starch which will obviously attach itself to the brass and make a mess necessitating thorough wipe down. Although I suspect rice would work, I wouldn't use it. Additionally, many auto polishes contain ammonia and brass doesn't get along with ammonia well at all.

 

[jonbearman]

I myself stick to what always worked well for me.I use lymans tuffnut with polishing rouge(red color),it works excellent and when you screen your brass into a bucket or use the dillon seperator which works the best as far as I am concerned.

 

[memilanuk]

I'd read about this a few years back on another forum (brianenos.com, maybe?) where they shoot a lot of IPSC/3-gun and very high volume loading. Wild long grain rice is fairly cheap, readily available, and works pretty well as is - as long as you are dealing with *pistol* cases. Trust me, you do not want to try this with bottle-neck rifle cases... that stuff will pack inside like a log-jam and good luck ever getting it out. DAMHIKT...

Some of the auto polishes do work pretty well in the tumbler... basically about the same as Dillon Rapid Polish compound but again, cheaper and locally available.

YMMV,

Monte

 

[kraky]

Been using it for a couple months....absolutely love it. does not pack cases.
Faster and more dust free than walnut. Will never go back to walnut or corn...although haven't tried it on smaller than 270.
5# is about $2.75 at Wally w...get white, uncooked. Skip the alchohal and add a little car polish or tumbler polish...good stuff.

 

[6shooter]

+ 1 kraky - exactly the same as i use. If your vibratory tumbler has a sieve in the lid, turn it upside down over a container and turn the power on. Empties out most of the rice in only a few seconds then dump the cases in a kitchen sieve and shake the rest out.

 

[memilanuk]

I was using it with .223 Rem... that may have had something to do with the 'packing' issue.

The other thing I had heard... and found... was that eventually I saw a white residue building up inside the (pistol) cases from the rice. It would flake off and come out... but it didn't make me very comfortable either.