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Has anyone made there own media for cleaning brass how fine does the shells have to be like sand or what I was told it is one of the best cleaners on brass. Should you grind them up or just crush them?cn you use pecan shells or pisaticho nut shells? will try anything  getting tired of buying it if I can make it I will. Thanks in advance if you can help.

You better have something Real hard if you want to grind up walnut shell, probably one of the hardest things in the world, once ground up they sure don't dissapear like a lot of things, that is what the old spark plug cleaning machines used back in the day.

I recall a relative back in the old country making a hammer mill from an old vacuum cleaner motor,a 10 liter pressure cooker and a heavy-duty hacksaw blade - rather like a gourmet coffee grinder on steroids. He could grind a half-kilo of dried peppers into talcum-fine paprika in about 10 seconds. It was deafening.Then it would be a matter of sifting to the correct size with a series of screens. The granules need to be small enough to get into most corners, but not so small they stick in all the flash-holes. I'd imagine most any hard nut shell would work, though softer ground corncob is used to get a factory polish. Look on line for ground corn cob in bulk - it's used for reptile bedding - about 1/8 tp 3/16th inch size works well.

Got to the local Petco and get Lizard Litter. Practically the same as you get from the gunstore and a hell of a lot cheaper.

Dale

Would you still have to use Rejuvenator in the walnut  grains you grind up , how would it polish? I have herd of people grinding up corn cobs to use.

I don't add anything to the walnut shells I get from Petco except part of a used dryer sheet to help with the dust.

Dale

Try using Lyman Turbo Charger Reactivator, I have been using the same Media that came with the Tumble for the past 12yrs. Lyman Item No. 7631322.

I do the same thing as what Dale suggested. I go to Petsmart to get my media. Like he said. It's a lot cheaper than getting it at a gun shop. And it's the exact same thing.

You can go to a welding store or parts house that sells stuff for sand blasting they carry walnut shells as we use it at work for blasting clean molds at work cheaper than at a pet store and in 50 lb bag's just my 2 cents worth