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Hi,

I want to clean up my metal pinball parts?

What polishing tumbler should I buy? What media should I buy? What Solution Should I buy?

Thank you.

Drew


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Cabells's tumbler
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas.....yncharset=ISO-8859-1

Crushed Walnut (any pet store - lizard bedding

Flitz addititve (also sold under Flitz Metal Polish)

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas.....yncharset=ISO-8859-1
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After a go in crushed walnut (which is a harsher medium) I find a polish in corn cob media really shines things up.

P.S. It's a slippery slope as soon you may have to get a motorized Baldor buffer and glass bead blaster....


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its almost worth it having 2 of them.. one for each media.  They come on sale quite a bit..
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