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I have heard of afew people washing there brass after tumbling to get all of the rest of the crap out and I was wondering if I was to do this what the best method of drying the brass? I know my dishwasher has a plate warming setting would that be a good choice?
 
You can also dunk your brass in a pail of isopropylic alcohol or methyl alcohol. This mixes with the remaining water and displaces it.
Avoid ethylic alcool: it reacts with brass (and also with drunkards)...;)
Then you drain the alcohol from the cases and let them dry. Alcohol evaporates a lot faster than water and your cases will be dry in a jiffy. You can reuse the alcohol many times.
If you choose to use methyl alcohol or "fondue fuel" or ANY mix containing methanol, wear nitrile gloves.
Methanol is absorbed readily through the skin and can cause irreversible and cumulative nerve damage. Avoid inhaling vapours or smoking.
Isopropylic is much safer.
Good luck!
PP.
 
Put them in the oven, stand them up in a shallow, flat pan and set oven at 200ºF. in 20 mins they will be as dry as they could be without any damage whatsoever. Regards, eagleye.
 
I find the water sits forever in the primer pockets.
I blow them out with compressed air.
If I'm in a hurry, I roll them around in a towel while using a heat gun on them till they are very warm.
Works OK for rifle volumes, would be way too labour intensive for the quantities handgun guys reload.
 
Put them in a mesh bag ,tie a large knot in the bag. Hang the bag over your clothes dryer door with the knot outside the door and the bag inside the dryer. It is just hanging there it isn't tumbling. Turn it to hot and give it a cycle or two. Or in the winter put it in a pie pan, elevated on an empty coffee can, over a hot air register, give it a day or so.
 
I use the wifes Hair dryer :D Works great

Watch the brass is nice and clean tho, burnt Pyrodex all over the Towels and Hair dryer dont go over well. :rolleyes:
 
I use the clothes dryer. Just one word of caution...to reduce the noise put them on a towel on the running shoe rack. 20 minutes and done.
 
"...there..." Where?
Let it air dry or put it on a cookie sheet in the oven set on the lowest temp for 10 or 15 minutes. Remember that metal gets HOT in an oven. Mind you, just tumbling is enough.
 
Meh - I just let them air dry. a couple days, a week, a month, whatever. I process brass in batches so there's ALWAYS some that's ready to go. I'm in no hurry
 
The only time you really need to wash your cases is after using black powder...soap and hot water and a bottle brush!
 
Colin, Yes, and the best results I've found was using laundry detergent. Especially the liquid stuff, it's strong. don't use too much, a teaspoon per gallon is plenty.
 
I wash off the resizing lub in a container of hot water with a small squirt of dishwashing liquid and a splash of vinegar and swish them all around. I then stand them upside down in a reloading block and heat them up with a hair dryer, turn them right side up & heat them up again to evaporate all the moisture. Works perfect.
 
The hair dryer

trick that has been mentioned is the fstest way I have seen to dry them. I do not have a heat gun or I would have tried that.

With the dryer I jsut lay them on a towel and blow away. get hot enough that they are dry in just about a minute or so.
 
I've dried brass by spreading them out on an old window screen covering the top of a box fan which I placed horizontally on top of some cinder blocks (to allow airflow).
 
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