I made a tumbler and started experimenting with this method and I’ll share a couple of observations so far.
I could not find Lemi shine so I tried these combos instead.
Dish soap and heavy duty citrus cleaner dose not work, if leaves the brass with a dark tarnish. Dish soap and Simple Green cleans the brass but not shiny like the video. Dish soap and Dishwasher Magic a Lemi shine substitute that Lowes sells works like a charm leaves brass shiny just like the video.
After trying to clean thirty pounds of brass in my first attempt I went back and re-watched the video and noticed for the first time he’s only washing a hand full of brass per batch about two pounds, so I modified my process to seven pounds of brass twenty pounds of media and thirty two pounds of water and let tumble for two hour’s at sixty RMP.
For now I’m letting the brass dry in the sun on the tailgate of my truck but I will need to improve this system as soon as the weather turns.
Overall the brass is cleaner on the inside than my old method of using corn cobb media in a vibratory tumbler but it’s a lot more work and mess.
Dishwasher Magic
