Does anyone put a small amount of polish in their media when tumbling brass??

[chaz]

Just a quick question folks.

As above, Would it be ok to put a few drops of car wax, or any other polish (Brasso?) into walnut media when using my dry tumbler?

I've seen it being done on You-Tube, and heard people say they do. But I'd like a few opinions before I think of doing it.

So some constructive opinions, Or better still experiences would be appreciated. 

My concerns are, getting wax in the case, so creating more work by then having to clean them in my Ultrasonic....

Cheers.

Chaz. 

[John MH]

Did it may years ago in a Dillon Tumbler with their product combined with walnut media to clean and polish Pistol Cases. Not used it on Rifle Cases and now am now using a LEM with micro SS Pins having moved on from the Rock Tumbler style.

[Popsbengo]

26 minutes ago, chaz said:

Just a quick question folks.

As above, Would it be ok to put a few drops of car wax, or any other polish (Brasso?) into walnut media when using my dry tumbler?

I've seen it being done on You-Tube, and heard people say they do. But I'd like a few opinions before I think of doing it.

So some constructive opinions, Or better still experiences would be appreciated. 

My concerns are, getting wax in the case, so creating more work by then having to clean them in my Ultrasonic....

Cheers.

Chaz. 

I use a tiny amount of jewellers rouge powder, it brings the brass up very nicely.  I mean tiny too - quarter of a teaspoon max in a full Lyman tumbler.  It will naturally distribute around the walnut media and turn it a red shade.

If you don't know, jewellers rouge is super-fine ground iron oxide (rust) used for polishing precious metals and glass

Most important though:   clean the necks inside prior to loading  - I use a wet cotton bud.

Personally I can't see any reason to use wax and would think it detrimental

[Big Al]

Never found the need to add anything.

Crushed walnut polishes cases good enough. I dont want to have to clean anything off afterwards, its just an unnecessary step that I can do without.

[No i deer]

Yes I used brasso loads of times in my tumbler..

Does the job..!!

[BoltHead]

I add a dollop of ammonia free car polish, plus a splash of white spirit to thin the polish.

Adding a sheet of kitchen roll cut into 50mmx50mm squares helps clean up the media.

[chaz]

On 1/28/2023 at 12:37 PM, No i deer said:

Yes I used brasso loads of times in my tumbler..

Does the job..!!

Do you think adding brasso makes much of a difference, and how much do you use?

Cheers.

[No i deer]

Makes them shiney as

[Reecy]

For decades I used T cut in my corn cob media-always got great polished cases

i now use a wet tumbler and the results are even better

atb

[dave thorniley]

i used to use dillon rapid polish it was fantastic but cant find any in the uk so i dont use anything now cases still come up shiny 

[deadcenter]

Kranks sell a media additive, can't remember it's name now (useful eh?), but it's really good.

Heard that the amonia in brasso can make cases brittle. Had some loads I'd had in the back of the safe I'd done a few years prior that had the necks cracks on some of them, so there could be something to that, I used to use brasso in my media all the time.