Cleaning media for your brass

[Evil_McNasty]

Mike, when you use Nu-Finish, do you just pour it into the media and let it tumble for a while before throwing in the brass? I use an additive (can't remember the name, I just call it Shiny Juice) that is used like that but it is more liquid than Nu-Finish. Nu-Finish is a bit thicker, but still lighter than 95% of other car polishes. Seems like it would mix well.

[Rumbler]

I do. It does take a few minutes to "disperse" the clumps formed by trickling it in. But on the plus side for me at least it seems to have a pretty good residual quality. As you can probably imagine I tumble a heck of a lot of brass. Unless the brass is particularly dirty - in which case I'll dump in an extra ounce or so - I usually don't add more until I have tumbled several thousand cases, or my normal tumbling time (2-4 hours) does not result in "like new gold" appearance.

With this said . . . I like SB's suggestion. As I understand Nu-Finish is 100% synthetic so I can't see how a little mineral spirits could actually harm the chemical and if it makes it disperse faster . . . sounds like a win/win to me.

Mike, when you use Nu-Finish, do you just pour it into the media and let it tumble for a while before throwing in the brass? I use an additive (can't remember the name, I just call it Shiny Juice) that is used like that but it is more liquid than Nu-Finish. Nu-Finish is a bit thicker, but still lighter than 95% of other car polishes. Seems like it would mix well.