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PBR wrote:another thing you can use is the liquid car wash with the wax in it -- i tried it once when was out of lemi-shine and worked great -- depending on your water you might not need lemi-shine, its mainly for use in hard water -- on cutting up steel wool i dont think that will work very good -- also got some chips instead of the pins and it seems to work even better and the chips were cheaper -- southern shine tumblers on facebook sales the chips for $3 a lb plus shipping so 5lbs cost $22


on case lube i use iso heet (from walmart or autoparts store / red bottle) and liquid lanolin or lee white tube

warnmar10 wrote:I use stainless steel pin media. I like it very much. I don't use Lemi-Shine, just Dawn for dishes and water. Way more Dawn than you think it needs. I use ~2 table spoons of Dawn in my 17# tumbler and usually let them go 8-12 hours overnight. They get acceptably clean with less Dawn and less time but I like shiny stuff and the extra time makes them gleam.

FWIW - I decap, size and expand before placing them in the tumbler. After tumbling I apply home made case lube and run them 30-40 minutes in the 170 degree oven to dry.