Nu Finish is awesome.

[HighLander51]

Car polish in corn media is an old recipe. I run mineral oil in walnut overnight for cleaning, then nu finish in corn overnight for polishing.

[kmca]

I'd do the 4 hour tumble before reloading, then a 30 minute tumble to remove the lube. That way, you'd clean the inside of the case and minimize tumbling the powder, even though it probably doesn't hurt anything, why take the chance if you don't have to?

[HighLander51]

then a 30 minute tumble to remove the lube.

what lube?

[kmca]

what lube?

OP said he likes to take the excess Alox off his bullets. I sometimes do it to remove the wax from the cases.

[HighLander51]

ok you guys are casting, forgot. I only use moly lead or jhp

[Germz]

Here's a pic.
I love casting. It has its own unique solitude to it just like reloading .

[Germz]

Here's side by side with a factory round.

[milw50717]

Four hours of tumbling ?

My brass is lucky if it gets 2. Mind you, no one has ever commented on the shininess of my brass

[Germz]

Four hours of tumbling ?

My brass is lucky if it gets 2. Mind you, no one has ever commented on the shininess of my brass

its purely aestetic IMO (in regards to the shininess of the brass), that is after the initial 30 min tumbling to clean before resizing. although the practical application for me is to clean the alox off the boolits.

['ol shooter]

Mine ain't so purty, but it shoots, and that's all I have to say about that. Yours sure is purty, though.

[Germz]

If it shoots and hits what you want it to thats all that matters!

[damndave]

I used to use NU Finish with my corn media and it definitely works pretty good. 1-2 capfulls for every few batches would do the trick.

As for when to tumble. I tumble to clean initially. Then reload them all. But since I use One Shot to lube the cases, I like to tumble the finished rounds to get the lube off. 10-20 minute final tumble does the job well enough.

[RamonSJC]

I need to get into reloading / casting.

[Germz]

startup costs can be a PITA.

[shooting4life]

I tumble for 2-3 hours in walnut. What I have found to help is a little bit of paint thinner in the media, really keeps the dust down. When reloading on a progressive I also use a few squirts of case lube over 1-2k brass. Just makes the whole process run more smoothly. I do not worry about polishing off any of the lube when doing handgun.