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How Often Do You Change Your Media?
- Rifletom
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
I'll change it when starts looking funky. A little Turtle Wax spray or a couple caps of Brasso into the media and presto! clean, fairly shiny brass in about 1.5 hours.
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
I change my when it doesn't polish any longer but mine lasts for years. I'll soak my brass in a solution of a big tablespoon of Lemi-shine a small squirt of Dawn in about 1 qt. of very warm water, soak 5 min. stir, soak 5 min., rinse in cool water, spread on towel for a couple min. into the buzz bucket for about 1 1/2 hrs. or so, very clean & shiny. The Lemi-shine/Dawn soak cuts powder/carbon & shines the brass. When the media doesn't shine like I like it to I add some Fritz media additive brings it back to almost new. I use walnut media
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
Yeah! I might just have to start calling mine a "buzz bucket" too!
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
My corn cob media was very dark after over two years of weekly use.My brother has been giving me all his once fired brass. I tumble brass 200-300 shells with a shot of nu car polish for 2 to 3 hours still comes out shiny. After reading first post about toxins i dumped out and started fresh.
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- RanchRoper
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
I tried the cat litter when they were done with it but got crappy results.
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
That's understandable, because It's recommended to use litter that was used by no more than 5 cats! I think that's in the manual.I tried the cat litter when they were done with it but got crappy results.
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
I just add some semi-chrome or wenol to mine whenever necessary. Just squirt some in and run it for about 30 min. before tumbling. Seems to work for me. I haven't actually changed it in a long time.
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Re: How Often Do You Change Your Media?
One of the prime concerns I have for dumping the media after a lot of use, is contamination. I'm probably neurotic, but unless the primers are lead free primers (usually listed on box) there is most likely lead styphnate residue along with antimony on the fired cases along with the burned powder. When the cases get cleaned, that goes into the media. Granted it's nano or micro amounts per case, but 1000s of cases seems to me, to make that media a bit sketchy, no?
Perhaps a member more knowledgeable than me on this, could clarify.
Perhaps a member more knowledgeable than me on this, could clarify.
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