View Full Version : Another use for tunbling media.
Hickory
07-13-2011, 06:57 AM
Any of you guys out there ever use used tumbling media as a flux?
gray wolf
07-13-2011, 09:25 AM
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.
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
07-13-2011, 11:50 AM
Thanks for the warning. That sounds like something I would try.
bumpo628
07-13-2011, 11:51 AM
How about walnut? Anyone try that?
Hickory
07-13-2011, 11:58 AM
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
07-13-2011, 12:15 PM
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
07-13-2011, 03:09 PM
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
07-13-2011, 10:18 PM
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
07-13-2011, 10:25 PM
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.
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