I have never used or even seen ceramic media. Was wondering if a person could buy a ceramic tile and with a hammer create chips to make their own? If so, would those dust like particles produced also work?

Ceramic media is used often for polishing and knocking off burrs of steel parts often used in some manufacturing. They look similar in size to an extruded wood pellet to burn in stoves. My friend has one set up in his laser cutting shop. I would think that ceramic for brass would be WAY too abrasive.

Ceramic and plastic media are abrasive. Steel media burnishes. I wouldn't use abrasive media on cartridge brass.

After I asked the question and got two responses that it wasn't a good idea, I decided I'd give it a quick try. You guys were very correct--was a bad idea. Making it was messy and for the most part either powder or chunks that were too big and it went all over the place--required harder blows from the hammer than expected. The chunks would enter the case and hard to remove so I trashed the whole mess. I did learn my Thumbler Tumbler was dead and will start a thread on fixing it.

I don't think the ceramic media used for cleaning is broken up tile!!!!!!

The media is made specific for cleaning...it's also made is many different grades with different cleaning properties...some grades are for cutting/grinding and some for polishing...and the stuff for cleaning brass has a length/dia/shape that WON'T STICK IN THE CASE OR PRIMER POCKET...you need to pick the right one.

The same with steel media...lots of different sizes, shapes and grads available...

Check out Royson Engineering Co... http://www.royson.com/index.html.

Experiencing a failure is not a bad thing as far as I see it...but rather a very good teacher for certain.

Luck

Foobar--I had serious doubts my attempt at making home made ceramic media would be anywhere near the stuff you buy. I would have been surprised if it worked. Giving it a try was no big deal. I have read favorable reports about ceramic media and would like to try the real stuff. Sometimes things do work out--read my recent post here about Thumbler Tummler.

FOOBAR, just a quick question. My suppliers list their ceramic as abrasive. Are you talking porcelain for polishing?