So I've gotta figure this out....am I way off my rocker here.....?
My roommate, who is often very overbearing and hypocritical, was asleep downstairs. I was in my room upstairs annealing my brass. I spin them on a drill then dump them in water to cool them. Obviously that leaves me with a bunch of wet brass. I tried leaving them out in my room to dry but after three days they are still wet inside. I figured, hey, I've dried stuff in the oven before, I'll throw them on cookie sheets at 160 degrees Fahrenheit (not even boiling water temp, just enough to drive the water off into the air). Laid them on cookie sheets, set the timer on the oven to shut it off after two hours, set my alarm on my phone for two hours, and another alarm, just to be sure they wouldn't be in all night long.
I left the oven door cracked with a roll of cookie sheet paper (the stuff that goes in at 450 degrees f with no issue).
He came upstairs half hour later and lost his ####. He told me I was bring dangerous and disrespectful, and basically to #### off.
Now this isn't a guy who knows nothing about nothing. He shoots occasionally, he knows what reloading entails (sort of), and he certainly knows what would happen from having brass in an oven on my own cookie sheets (on cookie paper to, anyways).
Now am I crazy here? Is that super dangerous and am I an idiot? Or is he on some kind of control trip? Bear in mind, this is the kind of guy who spray paints doors and wood trim outside and brings it inside the house on the kitchen table to dry. We aren't talking about some white collar guy who doesn't know a paintbrush from a hammer.
I just don't get it....is it completely unheard of? Dangerous? Stupid? Even unsanitary? Cuz I can't see how it could be any, but maybe I'm dense. There were no chemicals, nothing flammable, the cases have been through water twice and a tumbler with walnut twice before that. They've already been heated with a torch so there is clearly nothing flammable in or on them. they were on my cookie sheets with my parchment paper (no health hazard that I can imagine). Seeing as it was set so low, there is also no risk of heating the metal to the point that something in it somehow burns off.... so I'm left with thinking that I'm not out of line here. But I'd like to know how other guys dry their brass.
Do you use the oven? Do you got a wife and/or kids? Does the wife care that you do it? Or are you not allowed, and if so, for what reason?
My roommate, who is often very overbearing and hypocritical, was asleep downstairs. I was in my room upstairs annealing my brass. I spin them on a drill then dump them in water to cool them. Obviously that leaves me with a bunch of wet brass. I tried leaving them out in my room to dry but after three days they are still wet inside. I figured, hey, I've dried stuff in the oven before, I'll throw them on cookie sheets at 160 degrees Fahrenheit (not even boiling water temp, just enough to drive the water off into the air). Laid them on cookie sheets, set the timer on the oven to shut it off after two hours, set my alarm on my phone for two hours, and another alarm, just to be sure they wouldn't be in all night long.
I left the oven door cracked with a roll of cookie sheet paper (the stuff that goes in at 450 degrees f with no issue).
He came upstairs half hour later and lost his ####. He told me I was bring dangerous and disrespectful, and basically to #### off.
Now this isn't a guy who knows nothing about nothing. He shoots occasionally, he knows what reloading entails (sort of), and he certainly knows what would happen from having brass in an oven on my own cookie sheets (on cookie paper to, anyways).
Now am I crazy here? Is that super dangerous and am I an idiot? Or is he on some kind of control trip? Bear in mind, this is the kind of guy who spray paints doors and wood trim outside and brings it inside the house on the kitchen table to dry. We aren't talking about some white collar guy who doesn't know a paintbrush from a hammer.
I just don't get it....is it completely unheard of? Dangerous? Stupid? Even unsanitary? Cuz I can't see how it could be any, but maybe I'm dense. There were no chemicals, nothing flammable, the cases have been through water twice and a tumbler with walnut twice before that. They've already been heated with a torch so there is clearly nothing flammable in or on them. they were on my cookie sheets with my parchment paper (no health hazard that I can imagine). Seeing as it was set so low, there is also no risk of heating the metal to the point that something in it somehow burns off.... so I'm left with thinking that I'm not out of line here. But I'd like to know how other guys dry their brass.
Do you use the oven? Do you got a wife and/or kids? Does the wife care that you do it? Or are you not allowed, and if so, for what reason?
) then let air dry
