Tumbling - What Media???

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by John Sabato

...with your skills you can easily make a tumbler....

Skills: Boundless
Motivation: Zilch
Result: "good enough"

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I'm just looking to make them cleaner...The brown brass tarnish seems resistant to tumbling/vibrating...But is very nice as 'patina'...

Originally Posted by Patronen

+1 on the jewelers rouge, a friend turned me on to that, but after using it make sure you clean it out from the inside of the cases. I myself gave up tumbling to the point of making brass look factory but more for cleaning it up enough to reload.

Is the rouge liquid or powder??? How do you clean it out of bottleneck cases??? Compressed air???