Eggshell brass medium?

Gryphon Black · Post by **Gryphon Black** » Thu May 08, 2008 1:28 am

I had a curiosity, thought I'd ask...

Can you use eggshells as a brass tumbling medium? Anybody try that?

Gryphon

cnjarvis · Post by **cnjarvis** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:33 am

I haven't tried it (or even thought of it for that matter) but I can't see why it wouldn't work. I don't think it would last very long though.

meanc · Post by **meanc** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:42 am

Well, if you calculate the time and energy it'd take to cut it all up and probably the extended time of running your tumbler to get your brass clean, you'd be ahead and better off by just running to a pet store for a bag of crushed walnut. JMO.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Thu May 08, 2008 1:28 pm

meanc wrote:Well, if you calculate the time and energy it'd take to cut it all up and probably the extended time of running your tumbler to get your brass clean, you'd be ahead and better off by just running to a pet store for a bag of crushed walnut. JMO.

I think I'd just let the tumbler crush the shells on its own. We raise chickens so I may try it just to let you know. I think that the shells would get powder-small rather than grape-nuts sized like normal media.

Can you really get walnut hulls at a PET STORE...? I've always gone to the gun store 30 miles away or bought over the internet...

jschance · Post by **jschance** » Thu May 08, 2008 1:45 pm

Yep, buy bags of what's called Lizard Litter or some such stuff. It's crushed walnut shells. You can also get the granulated corn cob media there too, as bedding for gerbils or something.

meanc · Post by **meanc** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:18 pm

Can you really get walnut hulls at a PET STORE...? I've always gone to the gun store 30 miles away or bought over the internet...

Yep, just ask for their reptile crushed walnut bedding

deerwhacker444 · Post by **deerwhacker444** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:38 pm

I think my Grandma buys the corn cobb stuff at the pet store to put in the floor of her bird cage. The pet store stuff is cheaper than the brands aimed at sportsman.

Lefty Dude · Post by **Lefty Dude** » Thu May 08, 2008 3:50 pm

Just bought a bag of reptile litter at PetMarts yesterday.

To clean the dust out of the litter I use laundry dryer sheets we buy at Costco. When I change my cleaning media I will throw in three or four sheets to pre-clean the litter by letting the machine run for several hours and remove most of the dust.

Each time I run the machine in goes a dryer sheet. This also picks up all that primer residue as well as the fine walnut dust out of the litter.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:23 pm

Lefty Dude wrote:Just bought a bag of reptile litter at PetMarts yesterday.

To clean the dust out of the litter I use laundry dryer sheets we buy at Costco. When I change my cleaning media I will throw in three or four sheets to pre-clean the litter by letting the machine run for several hours and remove most of the dust.

Each time I run the machine in goes a dryer sheet. This also picks up all that primer residue as well as the fine walnut dust out of the litter.

You mean a "anti-static"/softener sheet? I hadn't thought of that!

Gryphon Black · Post by **Gryphon Black** » Fri May 09, 2008 8:34 am

We save eggshells to go in the compost, and there is some of it here on the counter, and the idea just occurred to me. Figured it would have the right kind of "sharp edge", and the mineral hardness as well.
One might even mix it in with the walnut shells, say 50-50?
I don't have a tumbler, but someday I'll need to actually clean all this brass

It might even speed up the process, if the sharp edges work the way it seems they would... HMMM

So somebody try it and tell us why it didn't work

Gryphon