media best cleaner

[ted]

found this stuff and it works great Stainless Steel Reloading Supplies | Tumblers, Seperators, Media & More! you will never have to buy again

[glockster157]

Just a note from the website, it does not work with vibratory cleaners and seems to require detergent water and rinsing. Brass looks like it turns out bright but I already have 2 vibratory cleaners so I cannot afford to switch. Didn't someone make SS ball type media that will work in a vibrating cleaner?

[mikegideon]

Here's a pretty good thread on the subject...

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/ammunition-reloading/59181-stainless-steel-tumbling-media.html

[Dolomite_supafly]

Just a note from the website, it does not work with vibratory cleaners and seems to require detergent water and rinsing. Brass looks like it turns out bright but I already have 2 vibratory cleaners so I cannot afford to switch. Didn't someone make SS ball type media that will work in a vibrating cleaner?

The problem isn't the shape it is the weight. The SS media is heavier than the brass so it will just sink to the bottom of a vibratory tumbler with the brass on top. This is why you need a rotating tumbler so the media will cascade over the brass.

If you want some better cleaning with a vibrting tumbler add some airsoft BB's to the mix. I was running low on my media so I decided to add some to make some volume. When I checked later the brass was way ahead of where it normally would be. I have done this with thousand of brass without issue as has several oterhs I have told this about.

One thing to be mindful of is that the BB's will get stuck in 223 casea as well as other calibers that are close to the 6mm diameter. It works great for 9mm, 38/357 and 45 ACP.

Dolomite

[dlm37015]

i clean lots of brass i buy plain corn cob ground up in 50 pound bags .to use i put in either tumbler or cement mixer yes i use a cememt mixer rubber drum from lowes .i add new car wax it makes the best cleaner and polish i have ever used.when you cant find media go to the pet store and get lizard beding works good too

[Guest nicemac]

Every time I use my SS media to clean brass, I become more impressed. Cleaned some really nasty .223 yesterday. It just cones out looking better than new. I tried cleaning some of it in my vibratory cleaner first, just to see if it would does well. Fours hours in walnut shell media with Dillon polish thrown in. Some of the brass was discolored and it did not change after four hours. The inside still was not clean. I dumped the rest in the tumbler with SS media, a spoon full of Dawn, and a pinch of Lemishine. Two hours later, the brass was cleaner than new, highly polished inside and out. I will never go back to corn cob or walnut shells…