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Member Section => Reloading => Topic started by: jaybet on February 01, 2012, 05:55:42 AM

Title: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: jaybet on February 01, 2012, 05:55:42 AM: I've been using a maroon colored crushed walnut for tumbling brass. It works really well, and it's easy to see when there's some on a casing. The trouble is, it tends to cling to the inside of the casing, and it makes a mess it the bags where the clean brass is stored.

How do you folks "de-dust" your brass after tumbing?
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: Majer on February 01, 2012, 10:36:49 AM: Jay, throw a dryer sheet in with the brass while tumbling it.any excess dust will cling to it.
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: MikeBjerum on February 01, 2012, 11:14:17 AM: Quote from: Majer on February 01, 2012, 10:36:49 AM
Jay, throw a dryer sheet in with the brass while tumbling it.any excess dust will cling to it.

And you will have the best smelling cartridges on the range ;D
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: ellis4538 on February 01, 2012, 11:14:31 AM: Jay, on another forum I have read where some people use lanolin which they say can be purchased OTC at your local drug store. Haven't tried it.

FWIW

Richard
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: alfsauve on February 01, 2012, 07:42:33 PM: Quote from: Majer on February 01, 2012, 10:36:49 AM
Jay, throw a dryer sheet in with the brass while tumbling it.any excess dust will cling to it.

Cool.
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: Pathfinder on February 01, 2012, 07:49:31 PM: Quote from: Majer on February 01, 2012, 10:36:49 AM
Jay, throw a dryer sheet in with the brass while tumbling it.any excess dust will cling to it.

New or used?
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: Majer on February 01, 2012, 09:06:23 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder on February 01, 2012, 07:49:31 PM
New or used?

New
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: jaybet on February 02, 2012, 05:45:38 AM: I have used dryer sheets before and they DO work, but I was using USED ones ('cause I'm cheap!). I had forgotten about them.
I've got to pack everything up soon for the move, so I'll probably start out in my new home with a new batch of walnut, and use dryer sheets right away.
Thanks guys.
Title: Re: Red Walnut Dust
Post by: BAC on February 02, 2012, 05:51:16 AM: Quote from: jaybet on February 02, 2012, 05:45:38 AM
I have used dryer sheets before and they DO work, but I was using USED ones ('cause I'm cheap!). I had forgotten about them.
I've got to pack everything up soon for the move, so I'll probably start out in my new home with a new batch of walnut, and use dryer sheets right away.
Thanks guys.

Will the move be to America, or within NJ?