Another use for tunbling media.

[Hickory]

Any of you guys out there ever use used tumbling media as a flux?

[gray wolf]

I tried used corn cob (---- ONE TIME----)
Never again
I think if I were not outside it would have killed me. ( not kidding )
the fumes were noxious and sickening, I only had one whiff of it.
Don't know about clean corn cob. Saw dust is all you need, or perhaps some old wax.

[mdi]

I had the same experience as gray wolf. I had some corn cob media handy and I usually use saw dust, so I just grabbed a handful of corn cob media and dumped it in my pot. Smoke/fumes were thick and truely noxious (I got one breath of the smoke and gagged/coughed violently). I had time to turn on my fans and leave the building. Had to wait 1/2 hour for the smoke to clear...

[mold maker]

Thanks for the warning. That sounds like something I would try.

[bumpo628]

How about walnut? Anyone try that?

[Hickory]

I guess that is another bad.
I was thinking about the corn cob media,
as the walnut is poisonous to most animals, and probably people too.

[hammerhead357]

I thought it was the soft hulls that surround the walnuts that was poisonous to fish. I didn't know that it was poisonous to other animals. Don't wild hogs eat them? IDK just thinking here.

[Hickory]

I worked in a cabinet shop once and the Amish would not want any saw dust if it had walnut saw dust in it, because it would make there horses sick. I never liked to do walnut jobs because I'd get sick.

[DLCTEX]

Even the roots and leaves are toxic , even to other plants. Not good to compost them for the garden. Elderberry and some others also. I once planted potatoes and turnips next to Elderberries and they were so nasty tasting cows and hogs wouldn't eat them.

[zxcvbob]

Any of you guys out there ever use used tumbling media as a flux?

I do. I haven't had any problem with it, but it doesn't work as good as sawdust.