Re: Stainless Steel Media Testimonials
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: FoxtrotBravo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: suasponte</div><div class="ubbcode-body">FTB:
Was the brass like that after your soak? Kinda looks like galvanic action between touching cases that was sitting there soaking! I had that happen once coming home from the range when I let them sit too long without aggitation.
Try re-running them and see if it resolves. It worked on some of the brass I had it happen to.
I try to avoid prolonged soaks without shaking the brass around.
Terry</div></div>
I reran the affected brass today for 6-1/2 hours. Took it out right after stopping the tumbling. All the brass looked bronze colored and not shiny at all, but the spots were gone.
I went back and searched on dull brass within this thread and found some that said the carbon had settled on it. The water did have black color to it. Should I retumble yet again, or what?
Thanks a lot.</div></div> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: suasponte</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Run just your media as a cleaning cycle! Rinse the media well!
Then, re-run that brass.
Terry</div></div>
I tumbled just the media for a couple of hours (I think), and then rinsed really well. The pins were visibly shinier than before. I then tumbled the "bronze brass" and it came out a lot better.
Left to right:
1) a case from the first batch that did not turn bronze
2) a "bronze" case held back for comparison
3) one of the "bronze" cases after washing with clean media
4) 6.5 Grendel found at range and washed with the "bronze" cases
5) 9mm case used for measuring Lemi Shine
6) 380 case found at range and washed with the "bronze" cases
I thought the difference between #1 and #3 was interesting.
One thing I will say, is that I will definitely be paying more attention to rinsing the media well! I had it in a gallon bucket sloshing around in clean water and pouring it off. Repeated a few times.
