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How do you clean them ?
I use the big Dillon tumbler, the big Dillon separator and DCB media, of course. Wink

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Buy a small electric cement mixer, preferably one with a plastic drum.

I've heard that crushed walnut is available in petstores as cage lining - went looking saturday with no success.

Edmond, you should try it with your stuff and let us know how well it works.

How do I know this? I want to use this gimmick to polish SS boat propellers... thumb


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I've heard that crushed walnut is available in petstores as cage lining - went looking saturday with no success.


Never thought of that!
Found some here!

I'm sure it needs compound added, but for 1/3rd of the price...


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Buy a small electric cement mixer, preferably one with a plastic drum.

I've heard that crushed walnut is available in petstores as cage lining - went looking saturday with no success.

Edmond, you should try it with your stuff and let us know how well it works.

How do I know this? I want to use this gimmick to polish SS boat propellers... thumb


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I have a few customers using cement mixers, mainly shooting ranges and some industrials reloaders plus one bullets maker who uses my media as a last step process when making TMJ bullets after I demonstrated that the protective film left after cleaniong protected his bullets from tarnishing plus it stopped the appearance of the small stains due to the coating process.
Some brass makers using it to clean up carbon after annealing, Kynamco ( Kynoch ) GPA bullets and a few others come to mind.

Some use it to clean propellers already, some gunsmiths and mechanics use it to remove carbon on valves and pistons.
 
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I got the idea from the home shop machinist message board. for mechanical polishing of aluminum prior to annodizing.

Ain't it amazing how a nasty mind can missaply common products? You should see what you can do with a beer keg... thumb


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Ain't it amazing how a nasty mind can missaply common products? You should see what you can do with a beer keg... thumb


I just try to make them lighter!


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Hmmmmmmm... beer

2 seperate heat exchangers? I'm wondering???


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I traded Ed Hubbel a "Burr Bench" vibratory tumbler, IIRC he posted photos of it here with something like 200 50BMG cases and 50 pounds of corncob pet litter and it was only 1/2 full.
 
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Why I'm shocked that you'd think I would do anything nefarious or possibly illegal.

nope, nope, nope. Wink


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TM: That's gotta produce some mean home brew!


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You can brew corn cob or walnut hulls ? Big Grin
 
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Here in Alabama, it's legal to make all the moonshine you want ... FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. It's only illegal when you try to sell it.

However, our local state liquor stores now stock moonshine for cheaper than one can make it at home, so the point is mostly moot.

I've still been considering the possibility of perhaps making a batch of my own scotch.


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I'll bet it gets brass real clean!

I'm still suprised they sell PGA at the ABC Stores. I'd better get down there PDQ.


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Well, a little clarification:

It is ILLEGAL ANYWHERE to make distilled beverages in the US without a tax stamp. This is FEDERAL LAW. That "moonshine" has a tax stamp on it. The reason for all of this is, as always, money - the government wants it's cut.

You can brew up to 400 gallons of beer and make an unknown quantity of wine, but distilling ANYTHING for consumption is a big nono.

You can get a permit to make fuel with it, but it's an involved process and the feds look at you with suspicion when trying to get it.


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Hrmm ...

If that's the case then there's a discrepancy somewhere. I got my information on that from one of the local police officers in town, but we were all at a meeting and I just sort of asked him off the cuff about a still for personal use only. He could well have been mistaken too.


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For those that need to clean LOTS of 50 brass
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