Cutting too thick car wax/polish

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dahermit

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I use ground walnut shells in my vibrating tumbler with a little auto polish/wax. But, the container of Newcar (Carnew? Orange bottle anyway.) wax/polish dries out in the container and gets too thick to pour. I tried some Isotropial alcohol today to see how that works for thinning it. I would like to know what others have used to thin it out a little.
I figured that the alcohol will evaporate from the ground walnut in the bowl and the wax/polish will be more uniformly distributed...without the lumps associated with the too thick consistency of aging polish.
 
Nu Finish? It's not a polish at all, apparently. It's a synthetic sealant with polymers. No cleaners or polishes in it. So it does nothing.
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Actually it does...I have been using it for years. The cases come out cleaner and brighter.
 
I just put a glob on a few gun cleaning patches. Then put them in the tumbler, and let it run for 20 or so minutes. Until the media is not clumpy. I then put in some cut up used dryer sheets, and the brass.
 
Regardless of what the chemical composition of NuFinish is, it does help clean cases compared to using media only, and it definitely polishes as well or better that anything else that I have ever tried. NuFinish too thick to pour: You shouldn't be trying to pour it anyway. Fill your kitchen sink with about 5" of very hot water. Drop the bottle of NuFinish in the hot water. As soon as the NuFinish has an attitude re-adjustment from the hot water. CAUTION: Getting the NuFinish too runny or thin will lessen your chances of the NuFinish creating drops. Shake very well. Remove NuFinish bottle cap and clean the thru hole with a appropriately sized nail or pipe cleaner. Now simply instill drops (lots of them) in the media. Tumble about 15 mins or so. Make sure that all of the drops are now absorbed in the media. Add cases. The more cases (to a certain point) that are in the tumbler (I tumble up to about 650 cases at 1 time) the more heat will be developed the cleaner and shinier the cases will become. Adding a few strips of dryer sheets will help retain most of the dirt & dust to the strips. Discard the strips each use.
Now this is all "Simple Simon" instructions but this system works very well for me. Guaranteed it mwill work for you, too.
 
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dahermit,

What you want to add to your NuFinish to bring it back into a liquid state is mineral spirits. In fact, adding a capful of mineral spirits to the media in addition to a capful of NuFinish does wonders to the brass cleaning properties of walnut media.

Don
 
Don, I keep hearing about mineral spirits in media but haven't read anything on how it helps. Does it speed the process? Just curious as my brass comes out shiney like it was brand new. Always interested in learning new tricks.
 
polish + cleaner

Put a used dryer sheet in along with your media and notice the difference with the brass when the cleaning cycle is over.
 
Just get yourself some fine polishing compound from Auto Zone. Its the same crap all the gun parts sites pedal to us. Same color, same smell and whole hell of a lot cheaper
 
For the worst of cases I use vinegar, after vinegar I use boiling water to rinse and then I use corn and or walnut media and nothing.

F. Guffey
 
Don, I keep hearing about mineral spirits in media but haven't read anything on how it helps. Does it speed the process? Just curious as my brass comes out shiney like it was brand new. Always interested in learning new tricks.
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The mineral spirits does two things: First, it removes the carbon burn marks that you tend to see on brass necks, especially when low pressure loads were fired; and Second, it keeps the dust down when using crushed walnut shell media.

Don
 
Read the label. You can prolly thin the polish with mineral spirits. If there is water in the ingredients, then it's water based and can be thinned with water...
 
From HandyMan website:

Mineral spirits or paint thinner… which is better? For cleaning brushes, paint thinner is best since it’s half the cost of mineral spirits and basically works the same. Other than the price, the differences between the two solvents are subtle:

Both are petroleum products.
Both can be used to thin oil-based paints and varnishes and to clean paintbrushes.
Paint thinner is mineral spirits, but in a less refined form. It contains other types of solvents, which makes it a lot smellier and more volatile.
Mineral spirits is not as stinky. Because it’s more refined, it’s slightly more effective in smaller quantities than paint thinner.
No matter which solvent you choose, use it in a well-ventilated space and observe proper safety precautions.
 
I mix equal parts Mineral spirits and NuFinish. I kept an empty bottle and when I get a new one I pour half into the old bottle and then fill them both with Mineral spirits. By doing this it's less clumpy when added and the clumps break up faster and the brass takes less time to come clean, and are cleaner.
 
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