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djcantr · March 3, 2012, 06:07 PM

I've been tumbling with 20/40 grit corn cob media from Graingers. I usually add some Nu Finish to it and tumble all day. I wanted to reduce tumbling time and still get them squeaky clean with a nice shine so I thought I'd try using the media with some powdered red jewelers rouge. I filled up the tumbler with fresh media and some rouge and ran it a couple minutes to distribute the rouge evenly. I dropped in a couple handfuls of cases and let it run a few hours. They're looking beautiful, but I can see a little residue rouge around the rim and primer on some of the cases. Is the rouge hard enough to eventually cause damage to dies?

March 3, 2012, 06:07 PM	#1
djcantr Senior Member Join Date: January 28, 2012 Posts: 215	Adding rouge to tumbling media I've been tumbling with 20/40 grit corn cob media from Graingers. I usually add some Nu Finish to it and tumble all day. I wanted to reduce tumbling time and still get them squeaky clean with a nice shine so I thought I'd try using the media with some powdered red jewelers rouge. I filled up the tumbler with fresh media and some rouge and ran it a couple minutes to distribute the rouge evenly. I dropped in a couple handfuls of cases and let it run a few hours. They're looking beautiful, but I can see a little residue rouge around the rim and primer on some of the cases. Is the rouge hard enough to eventually cause damage to dies?