Needing new media what's good

i got a 25 # box of fine crushed walnut from my local harbor freight over four years ago. i don't think it's half-gone. I believe it was about 15$ for the box.
 
Just stay away from anything with rut color. It is jeweler's rouge and will adhere to the inside of your case. Also, take part your sizing die after sizing cases after using that stuff. You will never use it again.
 
rut color. It is jeweler's rouge and will adhere to the inside of your case.

I have a big box of Lyman Tuff-Nut, with the jewelers rouge. I like it a lot. I have never had any issue with dust or particle adhesion. Makes the brass very shiny. I use it mixed with walnut and corn cob, some auto polish/wax. Strips of used (or new) dryer sheets or paper towels grab the toxic dust.
Note: the bowl will be red inside, but the brass was polished and shiny. I don't try to clean it. Instead I already had 2 bowls: one FA and one from Harbor Freight, that came walnut media. They both fit the tumbler fine. I use one only with the rouge mix. The red is the rouge (which I paid for).
 
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I was *hoping* this thread would help me identify something a friend gave me maybe two years ago.*

It's red like jeweler's rouge, hard like rocks, and shaped like Tinkerbell-sized corn flakes. Finally ran it two weeks ago and it polishes to a high shine VERY quickly, except of course for the black tarnish stuff, and even that yields to the polish faster with this than anything I've tried, including overdosing walnut media with two different types of white polishing compound.

It's large enough that you have to shake .223 cases upsidedown for a few seconds to get it all out. Not sure it would enter the mouth of a .17 caliber case...

Washing dirty/dusty walnut sux and I'm ready to never do that again. Dryer sheets of quasi-fabric and thin sponge construction don't clean very much dust IME.

So, any idea what this stuff is I stumbled into???




*Was telling him about a successful repair I made to a very old, discontinued Dillon tumbler's motor, and he offered me his since it had crapped out too...but all he had left was the bowl and lid on their springs, and the media inside. He's been too busy to talk to about something so minor for a while...IMO at least. Keeping his burden lower...
 
I didn't read through everything but I use White Rice. Stole the idea awhile back from somebody at CAstboolits.com.

Works really well, cheap as dirt, and a little bit better at not getting into every little nook/cranny of the brass.
 
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