You don't eat it when you change it out.

Honestly, I don't find the cost, mess, or inconvenience of using walnut hulls to be a problem. Corncobs are a different story although I do use that media after buying a 15 gallon barrel of it from a guy (who obviously decided he didn't like it and moved it on to another unsuspecting sucker).
 
I suppose tumbling rice media with a little bit of Brasso added would shorten the tumbling time.
No more running my corn cob media until it takes on the color of asphalt. No more moldy corn cob media> Hel~~lo Uncle Ben's for me from now on.

Excellent Tip flashhole. Thank you> Sir.
 
I take my brass, put it into a bag, and run it in the washing machine with my jeans. Pour it onto a tray and air dry. Perfectly clean. I tumble with a mix of treated corn and walnut, for a couple hours, and it's spotless. If he threw out his rice after 1,000 barely tolerable rounds, and walnut lasts FOREVER, how is rice cheaper? I have spillage loss and top up the media once in a while, and last bought media decades ago. I keep a big sea sponge in my tumbler, it swallows every pinch of dust. Tap the media loose and wash it, dry it, on with business.
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Brian, don't you know there's so much lead in fired brass from primers that wearing your jeans after washing with brass will rot your "manliness" off?:eek: :rolleyes:
 
Dude, I live in southwest Missouri, the Mecca of lead mining, where everyone weighs an extra pound just because they breathed the tainted air. A smelter ran for decades upwind of my home. If I plant something, I hit a point about eight inches deep that I have to call in help because I can't lift the shovel. We don't worry about radon in our basement, the concrete has built in radiation shielding. The local historical society had a grand central lobby, and the pride of the museum was one of the largest crystals of Galena ever mined, it's as big as a shopping cart and weighs several tons. The pilngs the put underneath it fell through into an unknown mine shaft, in one of the most ironic mining accidents ever. Going over maps and records, apparently the gigantic blob of ore came from that claim, and probably dropped within a few yards of where it was found. It took four years, but they finally retrieve"ole' Zeke" (yes, the rock had been named) and put him back with stronger flooring. heck, on the abstract of my property, the mining rights to my property were sold dozens of times, and even to this day, the mining rights are owned by an investment firm in New Jersey.

People refer to us as inbred, backward, drug added poltroons, but really, the problem is that lead wheel weight you drive on. It's probably made out of recycled lead that barely escaped being swallowed by one of the local children.

Anyway, the wife already ripped off the privates when I brought home that Browning. Being from Nebraska, originally, I was born with brass cojones, but at the time she took them, they had developed a heavy plating, almost .15 inches. It's no wonder they hung down to my knees and clatter when I walked.
 
Excellent reply, briandg, excellent reply. Unfortunately I was born in CA, but of Texan stock so my cojonies weren't 100% the "Longhorn Style" of my Texan ancestors. But I may have sumpin' "special" as my wife calls me "Old Leather Ba!!s"...
 
While rice may work, and I have used it in a pinch, I see no advantages of it over conventional media. It's more expensive and takes longer than crushed walnut shells and corncob. Again, iffin I need to polish some cases, have no other media left and don't have the time or ambition to run to WallyWorld and grab another bag of Lizard Litter, I'll go to the cupboard and grab the rice. Kinda like using Gummy Worms for fishing. Kinda a neat thing to tell others about, but not as effective or cost efficient as real worms.
 
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