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polishing Brass
Twowings2U
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Just lucked into a bunch of ground walnut hulls, which don't seem to
clean very well.by themselves..I have some red iron oxide (rouge) that I would like to mix with it.. how do you make it stick to the walnut?
or will it attach itself dry ??
--spray lightly with water ?? deodorized kerosene,(lantern fuel) & how much ?? or would you add a little, mix a while & look for a color change?? 2wings
clean very well.by themselves..I have some red iron oxide (rouge) that I would like to mix with it.. how do you make it stick to the walnut?
or will it attach itself dry ??
--spray lightly with water ?? deodorized kerosene,(lantern fuel) & how much ?? or would you add a little, mix a while & look for a color change?? 2wings
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I put liquid auto polish in mine [;)]
Does that help with dirty media, or just get the brass shinny?
quote:Originally posted by dcs shooters
I put liquid auto polish in mine [;)]
Does that help with dirty media, or just get the brass shinny?
Polishes very good [^]
SS
If your brass is very dirty, use white rouge first. Change the media and use the red rouge next for a shiny finish.
Corncob-Polish/finish.
quote:Originally posted by RobOz
quote:Originally posted by dcs shooters
I put liquid auto polish in mine [;)]
Does that help with dirty media, or just get the brass shinny?
Polishes very good [^]
how much you put in?
I have a big vibrating tumbler--I loaded it with what works as a full
load of ground walnut hulls, sprayed it while running with 2~4 oz
(vol) of lamp oil I had---It was changing color fairly uniformly,
ran it a while & sprinkled in about 2 oz (vol) of red iron oxide.
When that looked uniform I tossed in 15-20 .38 spl cases---Ran about
4 hrs..they cleaned up nice except a few spotted ones,that had been attacked chemically..
Then I put in 150-200 .38 cases & turned it on & forgot & left it on
10 hrs.---WOW did they come out polished !! even nice inside too.
After unloading the mix & sieving out the cases, I turned vibrator on
and noticed a small amount of what appeared to be iron oxide itself
climbing up the sides of the bowl & waterfalling back down---I'm
assuming that some of the oil evaporated,or soaked into the hulls
releasing some of the Iron oxide---Next time I use it I think I'll
spritz it with a little more oil & see the shells will pick up the
released FeO3.---- Jerry
Buy the cheapest 20 pound bag of Rice . This does a great job of cleaning and acts as almost a dry lube[^] does not contaminate the inside of case POWDER CHARGE when loading
+10
Just be certain the flash holes are empty before you load 'em!
Rice seems designed to exactly match the size of a flash hole!
I used to use a pillowcase and a dryer to tumble all my brass in rice until I finally caught up with technology and got a tumbler & separator.
I've been a little leery of any chemical polishes--Inter-Jerrygranular corrosion ya Know---
When using red rouge and walnut media I throw in couple of antistatic dryer sheet every once in awhile to get rid of the dust. You can also run one sheet with the brass if you have a small tumbler.
Where do de dust go???----Stick to de drier sheeets??
I built an air float cleaner for the raw media-(it was purty dusty)
_6" tube 'bout 5' tall with acouple of 2 liter pop bottles (cylindrical sides only) extended above that--so you can see how high the is media is lifting. ?" hail screen & layer of flannel on the bottom,
Tube mounted on a box & fed with vacuum cleaner outlet with
adjustable throttle valve to keep from blowing the whole mess out.
Use outdoors to get rid of dust.--Batch feed it ,about a coffee can at a time.
OKIE
Where do de dust go???----Stick to de drier sheeets??
I built an air float cleaner for the raw media-(it was purty dusty)
_6" tube 'bout 5' tall with acouple of 2 liter pop bottles (cylindrical sides only) extended above that--so you can see how high the is media is lifting. ?" hail screen & layer of flannel on the bottom,
Tube mounted on a box & fed with vacuum cleaner outlet with
adjustable throttle valve to keep from blowing the whole mess out.
Use outdoors to get rid of dust.--Batch feed it ,about a coffee can at a time.
Yep, the dust sticks to the antistatic dryer sheets. You'll be surprised at how much is removed just using one or two every once in awhile and also the static is removed from the sides of the bowl. I also use a antistatic sheet on plastic powder funnels or anywhere I see reloading powder flakes trying to stick.