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I no longer bother with dryer sheets, polishing liquids, or anything else. The 20 pound bag of corncob came from a gun show so long ago that I haven't the slightest recollection of the price tag. The stuff lasts well enough that I doubt I'll ever need to buy more - I honestly don't understand trying to save a few bucks on pet bedding or whatever, unless you're throwing it away on a regular basis. And more power to the wet tumbling guys and their shiny brass, but that's just way too much effort for a fellow like me!
So while I admire "pretty" as much as the next guy, the entire point of cleaning my brass is to prevent it from scratching my dies. When I get home, I dump my empties into the tumbler, which is a little more than half filled with corncob, and then I run it for about three hours. Then I dump it into a rotating sifter, give it a few spins, dump the brass into a box, and the corncob back into the tumbler. The three hours is unsupervised, of course, so I'm free to go do whatever else I need to do. Actual working time is something less than five minutes, and that's the sum total of time and effort that I put into it.
So while I admire "pretty" as much as the next guy, the entire point of cleaning my brass is to prevent it from scratching my dies. When I get home, I dump my empties into the tumbler, which is a little more than half filled with corncob, and then I run it for about three hours. Then I dump it into a rotating sifter, give it a few spins, dump the brass into a box, and the corncob back into the tumbler. The three hours is unsupervised, of course, so I'm free to go do whatever else I need to do. Actual working time is something less than five minutes, and that's the sum total of time and effort that I put into it.